First successful housing patch??

[Rinuko]

Looked this morning at 5:00am before heading off to work, did not see anything in mist, gridana or shiru. goblet did not check fully only a few or I would have been late. I also think goblet is worst designed area, but you need to consider do you want to invest in something that you cherish or do you just do it just because of its there.

I know my comment already been brought up by others in this thread but i'll say it again.

Goblet is a personal preference. Saying there isn't any plots left or it was all a failure is a lie though. I'm not saying you are stating this but i seen this kind of comment over and over both here and on Reddit.

If you truly want a plot in a different district or size - get whatever small you want now and :

1a. Wait for next time they open wards
1b. Relocate

2a. Wait for demo timer hit on someone misfortune
2b. See 1b.

[Enlial]

I think anyone who really wanted a house was probably able to get at least a small, and thats enough of a bone to not want to bother doing battle with the usual chorus of white knights blindly defending SE

I wasnt around for 4.1 but it must have been pretty bad. After 3.3 I was able to purchase a mansion TWO WEEKS after the new wards opened. Yesterday I didnt get the house I wanted (despite logging in at what seemed like the earliest moment possible lol) and by the time I was able to check the listings every medium was gone.

They arent adding wards fast enough to keep pace with demand, thats a problem, and as customers we do have a right to complain about the matter.

[worldofneil]

Or they can actually add more wards on demand for different servers...

They won't want to do that because from a systems management perspective, it's a lot easier if all 66 worlds all have exactly the same configuration.

[Rinuko]

They arent adding wards fast enough to keep pace with demand, thats a problem, and as customers we do have a right to complain about the matter.

That's fair. Maybe i'm biast cause i work at a company who do develops software and services in telecom sector but i think we all should remember what is reasonable and not blindly take our pitchforks and demand miracles over night. I think SE has a lot of technical limitations and are doing the best with what they got.

They most likely would need a new server infrastructure to give what we want for housing and that cost a lot of money. We do give them a good amount from our sub and mog station but that money isnt going to the devs but into other SE projects

[tymora]

They won't want to do that because from a systems management perspective, it's a lot easier if all 66 worlds all have exactly the same configuration.

That's just an excuse to cover their inability to make a scalable backend. Bad database design perhaps.

[Youkulm]

For sure OP! This is the first time i've seen houses for sale this long on Gilgamesh since 2.4. Everyone I know that wanted a house in my linkshells and FC was able to get one. It's great to see people actually excited and happy about housing again.

The only real problem is they need to keep up with demand. They can't keep waiting to add wards until the community is over boiling with vitriol.

[Dustytome]

I'm a little worried that we're going to run into another issue from the ward system if they do keep adding more and that's with possible new districts. As they keep them even, new districts being added will immediately require a much bigger resource pool which means the likelyhood of new housing zones may start to diminish as we gain more and more wards in current ones.

[Divinemights]

That's just an excuse to cover their inability to make a scalable backend. Bad database design perhaps.

Another Balmung deserves special treatment thing?
If you choose to stay on Balmung........deal with it?

[Ashiee]

I wouldn't consider this more successful then any other patch. It was less stressful for the vast majority of patches, but the housing system is plagued with the same issues it has had since the beginning.

Balmung and Ragnarok already have people complaining that they didn't have enough houses. I checked my server this morning, and there were only 50 plots left in the goblet, so I'm assuming those will probably be bought out by the weekend. There will be a good amount of servers soon enough who are going to have people complaining that there isn't enough houses.

Then you have the less populated servers, where the vast majority of the small houses are still available. If it was like how it was before they locked Balmung and let people move off of it for free... you're going to end up with a bunch of people who have empty plots as neighbors, and those people are going to complain that their wards are dead.

[Elamys]

Another Balmung deserves special treatment thing?
If you choose to stay on Balmung........deal with it?

Perhaps SE should consider looking into WHY Balmung is so huge and WHY their incentives did nothing to really alleviate the problem (and why so many people came back the second the server re-opened) instead of the community collectively ridiculing the server as a whole because "lol balmung" or something. A lot of people choose to stay here because that's where their friendships are, and it's not really fair to make someone choose between their friendships vs. some game content.

Why this is so hard for people to grasp I will never understand. It's like telling someone "why don't you just move?" when they're in a bad place. For some people, housing is going to be more important to them, and they'll leave. For others, housing is still important to them, but juuusssst underneath the friendships they've established on Balmung, and so they choose to stay.