Housing restrictions not fair for individuals.

[Awha]

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I am no server expert, but I would imagine the server load required for a single ward across all data centers is not cheap. The issue is and please do not take offense to this, players like yourself who have no understanding of how business and server management work come to the forums with what they perceive as a simple fix when in reality have no idea what said action would entail. Now as I said I am no server expert so I do not know what would go into tackling such a task, but I am willing to guess it is not easy, since if it was simple they would have done so long ago.

As players it is easy for us to make requests and offer up solutions to problems that we see, but that is only one aspect and we do not know what goes on behind the scenes.

[HoloKraft]

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To clarify I have and DO work in the networking field so Im not shooting out blind guesses here.
We can\\\\'t know for sure how they have the networks set up but there are a bunch of ways they can streamline and clean up the way the data is processed. In fact in many cases you can increase capacity in your network straight up by fixing redundancies and fixing the things taking up too many resources.

The issue here (I suspect) is that they would rather keep piling on new content before fixing the game. I believe their limitation isnt hardware related, its labor related.

Look at a game like League of Legends for example who shared this mindset of "Every patch we need to add more!"

After a while the game was unbalanced, hit boxes for abilities went unfixed, and the game suffered from FPS issues. They fixed all of this without upgrading any hardware, they stopped releasing content for a little bit and said "Guys, we need to fix this"

[HyoMinPark]

I'm no programmer, but FFXIV does have a lot of underlying 1.0 coding that the developers are slowly trying to get rid of. That alone would probably cause problems, especially if the Wards had their own ties to that 1.0 coding. They may not have been a thing until 2.x, but ARR was founded on Legacy FFXIV's coding. If they don't have the labor to dedicate a lot of time to removing and reworking that code, these fixes may very well not be possible. SE is the one who would have to allocate more money and resources into FFXIV development; you'd have to make the Big Wigs see if it's worth the investment or not.

[HoloKraft]

you'd have to make the Big Wigs see if it's worth the investment or not.

That's exactly right. They could go back and fix everything (which would be a chore) and appease the community without having to hire more workers. Problem is we wouldn't see new content for a while, good luck having that approved by the SE overlords. I don't think the chunk of players who don't care about housing would be very happy either.

I think we're getting close to having it under control with a few more wards being added and having harsher penalties for abuse which is in part a large problem that needs to be reworked.

[Hasrat]

Of course instanced housing would be a fix. But it's also clearly not the direction the game wants to go with housing.

[Nerfworthy]

This change was not meant to be "fair" to individuals as it was designed to allow FCs time to purchase/relocate so they can access things which are GATED (airship, gardens, etc) unless you own a house.

Individuals have been monopolizing the housing market for years and this couldn't have happened soon enough.

[Maero]

I honestly do like your optmism HoloKraft but let's be honest just adding wards like they keep doing is not working. I understand you like the community feel but that's why i suggested hundreds of times a mix of instanced and non instanced housing.
This would be far more fair then what we have now.

[Akiza1991]

I totally agree with this, I understand that FC’s get the priority and all but keep in mind that some people are slick enough to just easily make alts and create an FC, rank it up to 6 and bam, they can get a house that way. I have been playing this game for almost 2 years and yet I still have no house, it’s not like we play this game for “Free” to not be able to enjoy the full privileges “equally”. Yes, there’s A LOT to do in this game, but having to constantly wait and yet shatter the dreams of having a house by pull shit like this by SE is just fucked up. It’s an middle finger in your face as tho “oh we have plots but NO you can’t buy them.” How does this helping anyone really? Oh and not to mention of promising us player to accommodate 1 mil players and I did my calculation, 66 servers, 4320 plots per server and you do the math of how many houses available? That’s not even close to a 1 mil. There goes another empty promises that SE that tries to pull. Adding “6” wards ain’t enough.

[Awha]

After a while the game was unbalanced, hit boxes for abilities went unfixed, and the game suffered from FPS issues. They fixed all of this without upgrading any hardware, they stopped releasing content for a little bit and said "Guys, we need to fix this"

I apologize for assuming you have no understanding how business and server management work.

Thing about LoL they can go cycles without adding new content since the core game is the main aspect most people enjoy. FFXIV is a theme park MMO going a few patches without content while they fix things will be a hard sell for the big wigs and many players. I mean people already complain during the lull patches. Not sure this community is patient enough to handle such a change.

[Lizz12]

in my server there is a person who created 2 separate characters and made a fc with the same name and bought a med and large house in the same ward just so they could have a house i am guessing they did this before the update and already had the houses because i think one house per world is in effect now but that is the kind of stuff that isn't right, me personally i do not agree with SE methods on handling this situation but there is nothing WE can do about it but sit back and watch the chaos!!