Housing restrictions not fair for individuals.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

I mean that was the point right?

Also I think you're overblowing this. I'm on the Greg server, which is one of the more populated servers and I am not seeing this FC creation to buy houses, in fact plenty of wards have a good amount of small plots still open.

[lalin]

yes it's very very unfair , i still pay the same subscription fee fc owners pay , and i spend the same or even more amount of time ingame than these fc owners . i love this game but this entire housing situation makes me mad ...

[Rinuko]

They need to open up more wards so individuals can also buy med/lrg houses. I want a at least a chance at a medium house and if I don't hear about something to make that happen very soon I need to stop playing.

I can't speak for Leviathan but on my server we to this day have plenty mediums and larges available. Even my old medium i relocated from is up for grab. RNG timer can't be over a week can it?

I think I need to point this out, but the only thing that requires an FC house for is the Airship missions and the few recipes locked to the FC workshop (which are mostly housing or airship related anyway). literally everything else is available even to an FC without a house or is a function of owning the house (i.e gardening) so tell me again why an FC should have ABSOLUTE priority over an individual?

They shouldn't. I think you can place more of those workstations and wheels in a FC house but hwo use those anyway?

Are you serious? An active FC (not talking about these small startup FC's, who have no intention of housing more than the initial 4 members) has more use for med to large plots than many private owners do. I walked by larges, that you don't see activity around them in months, only to enter them once every 45 day to keep from eviction. An"Active" FC like mine, we hold events, meetings and social affairs all the time, while many privately own larges are abandon for the most part, once decorated. The gardens haven't seen a plant in them for months. My FC could use the upgrade from a medium to a large far more then any privately own individual could. Like when we built our submarine the other day, lots of traffic, I must say, going in and out.

You can do same things in a small. I doubt you have dozen on dozen in your house at once very often.
Why should a FC get priority over me as a individual ? I can do as much as an FC in terms of decorating it, using the house and garden.
Wherever people are storming in and out is totally unrelevant.

[Settiesama]

They need to open up more wards so individuals can also buy med/lrg houses. I want a at least a chance at a medium house and if I don't hear about something to make that happen very soon I need to stop playing.

They already stated this is how it will be for future wards. FC and Relocation first, and Individuals after. If you want a medium for next time, best get to fighting for one of those smalls. Should really be happy you could get a house in the first place though, even if it's a small.

Individuals will be restricted from purchasing plots for personal use for a limited time. You'll still be able to relocate. We’ll be observing the situation and remove this restriction later. When new plots are added in the future, we’ll apply the same measures.

[Rinuko]

They already stated this is how it will be for future wards. FC and Relocation first, and Individuals after. If you want a medium for next time, best get to fighting for one of those smalls. Should really be happy you could get a house in the first place though, even if it's a small.

They need to open up more wards so individuals can also buy med/lrg houses. I want a at least a chance at a medium house and if I don't hear about something to make that happen very soon I need to stop playing.

Indeed. Grabing a small now would be the wise thing, unless you find a medium or large that you want of course.
Next time around, who knows in 6 months or a year. You can just relocate.

[Settiesama]

They shouldn't. I think you can place more of those workstations and wheels in a FC house but hwo use those anyway?

Alot of FCs use the wheels because it's the only way to get the rank 3 actions.

[Vonleo]

Holy crap 6 months to a year just to get a larger house....do people not take into consideration how long that actually is? this isn't real life where we have to wait until more medium or large houses are "built" which is funny cause building a house in real life takes about 6 months to a year(depending on how much the home owners pay of course)....and you expect people playing a video game to wait that amount of time for a FAKE house? SE really needs to step its game up and fix this problem once and for all and stop putting on band aids. Either SE needs to actually put in a lot more wards then it has as in doubling what it is now or opening up new housing areas in other cities of the game because I find this quite pathetic how its been a problem since housing has been added to this game and they STILL have not resolved this. Time to rip off all those damn band aids and actually fix whats festering underneath.

[Settiesama]

Holy crap 6 months to a year just to get a larger house....do people not take into consideration how long that actually is?

He... was just giving a random time, not something that's confirmed. Judging from the previous lot, 6 months sounds about right, but they're giving the housing team a bit more focus lately so it could be sooner next time.

[Vonleo]

He... was just giving a random time, not something that's confirmed. Judging from the previous lot, 6 months sounds about right, but they're giving the housing team a bit more focus lately so it could be sooner next time.

Oh I understand that but it doesn't take away from the rest of my post about how this hasn't been fixed and it was released in patch 2.1 which is what? TWO EXPANSIONS AGO? correct me if I am wrong or not but thats just not acceptable coming from a company like SE.

[Settiesama]

Oh I understand that but it doesn't take away from the rest of my post about how this hasn't been fixed and it was released in patch 2.1 which is what? TWO EXPANSIONS AGO? correct me if I am wrong or not but thats just not acceptable coming from a company like SE.

To be fair, housing was done right in 2.1. It was an FC goal as only they could purchase them at incredibly high prices (which alot of the FC worked together on buying) and the game was a bigger focus. It wasn't until 2.38 when they screwed up housing by letting individuals buy and lower the prices (because a lot of wards were bare still). Now we have incredibly entitled people who believe they deserve houses just because they believe they pay monthly for everything in the game (Which no, you don't. You pay for access to the servers. Buying the base game and expansions is paying for the trunk, not the branches). They should of just made apartments as individual homes and left it as that. FFXI shown us that apartment sized housing (hell, Mog Houses were actually smaller) is more than enough to make people happy.

Apartments and smalls should be more than enough, but nope, people only want the best because it's there. They dangled Gysahls in front of the entitled and that's what's caused this shit hole. Hell, people are quitting the game over housing which is something I'll never understand because housing should never be the main focus of a game. Also seen people refuse to buy smalls (even skipping empty plot placards in 4.1 when only smalls were left) because they only want mediums and large. They should be thankful they could of gotten a house in general.