PSA: Purchasing a Personal Room can result in being unable to leave a Free Company

[ExKage]

It is sad that people are more upset about the /sundrop dance than they are this. Or, I guess people are so very secure in their FCs. I guess that is a good thing.

[ExKage]

I'm glad people are so very secure about their places in FCs.

History has shown me that while I may be secure, another person may not be. I would like to help prevent another such occurrence.

[ExKage]

Apparently this needs to be necro'd because it hasn't been fixed. I do not have the housing privileges and people to show off the events. But here is a post from 2018 where someone is trapped in an FC. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...apped-in-my-fc.

[Reinha]

Free Company private chambers were released almost 4 years ago and they still haven't solved the issue? Choosing not to fix such a huge oversight for this long is an embarrassment to the people in charge of the game.

[Addicted]

Free Company private chambers were released almost 4 years ago and they still haven't solved the issue? Choosing not to fix such a huge oversight for this long is an embarrassment to the people in charge of the game.

Everything about housing is an embarrassment to the people in charge of this game. I guess it doesn't happen often enough so they just choose to ignore it. I wouldn't have known the issue even existed where it not for this 3 year old post.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Housing is not exactly well done, but I'd say they should just disable the option to take away access to the FC Estate, specially from FC members.

[Liam_Harper]

Jeez, 2015 thread on a vital design flaw and there still isn't a fix in 2018?

Just because it hasn't been an issue that often doesn't mean it won't be in the future either. What's to stop a FC leader from locking everyone out the house and casually hinting that members who donate enough gil to the guild would get a special rank for their contribution (which just so happens to have house access). Techincally they'd be breaking no rules. The system gives them the right to deny house access and giving special ranks for "recognition of helpful members" doesn't break tos. You can't prove otherwise.

It's a huge mess just waiting to happen... the devs are extremely lucky it hasn't been noticed enough to abuse more frequently yet.

[Skivvy]

As others have said, it's pretty asinine that there is even the option to block FC members from entering a FC house. I don't get how that's a thing.

[Solarra]

Hard to believe I first posted in this thread 3 years ago and this is still an issue. I really feel for the person presently stuck in their FC and basically being trolled by their new FC Master.
Someone made the suggestion of letting us access our private rooms or the FC workshop from the front door, so even if you couldn't access the house you'd still be able to clear and demolish your room. That would be a fix for this situation and a QoL improvement for everyone.
However, I still feel access to the FC house should be treated as a right rather than a privilege.

[Penthea]

As others have said, it's pretty asinine that there is even the option to block FC members from entering a FC house. I don't get how that's a thing.

This is one of the most puzzling things I have encountered in the game. I fail to see how this would be remotely useful in a healthy fc.