Alleo's Signature

[Jandor]

Tear housing down and start again! It could be so much better.

[Luna-M]

Tear housing down and start again! It could be so much better.

How would that change anything

[Zojha]

How would that change anything

Probably the same way FFXIV changed from 1.0 to 2.0.

Meaning: You'll get a whole bunch of legacy limitations because you need to make sure the new system remains compatible with the old one to transfer things over, so one year down the line, you already hit the first walls of your shiny new system.

[Thamorian]

This signature is why I'm disappointed in most things this game promises. Thank you Alleo.

Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IX Q&A Summary (10/30/2013)
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?*
A: In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system.*Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.

Let me take a damn break! Without losing my 30m house and 20m plus furniture in it!

I hope you are the original owner of your current housing plot, cause if you bought that house after it was auto-demolished from someone else, and you complain about the auto-demolish, some might consider that to be hypocritical.

i still think they should destroy every single personal house, refund the people properly and add bigger and better apartments as personal housing. this is the only way i see to solve the problems with the housing system and keep the promises they made back then.

No thanks, I'd prefer a house with a yard I can decorate.

[Corue]

i still think they should destroy every single personal house, refund the people properly and add bigger and better apartments as personal housing. this is the only way i see to solve the problems with the housing system and keep the promises they made back then.

In an interview a while back Yoshi said that they were considering implementing medium and large apartments along with faux-balconies. The idea is in their heads at least.

[Skivvy]

No thanks, I'd prefer a house with a yard I can decorate.

I agree that personal housing should be more than just a larger apartment, and this is something that instanced housing could handle nicely. I'm definitely on the team of "time to start over, your housing system sucks as it is". Maybe keep the existing wards for those people who want that ghost-town feel, and then release proper instanced housing to ALL characters.

I always think of WildStar when thinking of instanced housing. They allow so much freedom there, massive plots, AND you can form a small instanced community with a few of your friends. Although, I'm sure SE could find a way to muck that up as well.

[addz3]

Oh is that my name in a topic thread? ö_ö

I have this signature for quite some time because its a good stand in for quite some broken promises (the white raven one recently being another one) and also one big problem for housing.

Housing is a really bad place for Yoshida and Co. since they also told us that private and FC housing would be different from each other and private would be cheaper and that these old systems are from the past..yet somehow they created a system that with a little foresight should have told them that it wont work with a growing playerbase.

In the end I still have this in my signature to show that they are not always telling the truth (and yes things change but what can we really still trust if they can just go behind their own words years later? For me this just means that I wont take any words that seriously anymore) and still hint that housing will always remain a problem in this game until they change it.

(Also I am a bit salty x) He is always telling us that we should just take breaks..yet forces us housing owners to sub for most of the time. At least make it so that a sub is enough to still have a house thus I could pay a sub and yet still go on vacation without feeling like I might lose my house if its going for too long)

It sure is your name. I love your quote even though it makes me mad lol

[Vaer]

Also, I find it funny people are upset about this statement, but the same thread about the White Raven earrings has people telling legacy players to get over their "special digital item exclusivity"

"Who cares if they lied if it benefits me"

Human nature, you could say.

[Leloa]

I just gave my large to a friend because I need to focus irl. I just couldn't bother thinking what happens to the house or that I'd have to get back in 45 days.

Then again I always liked house hunting, it gives the feeling of achievment so there's that when I get back in the game.

[ko_]

Statements like that are broken all the time in gaming. Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, SE, insert any other gaming company here have broken promises to their gamers all.the.time. It's not new and expecting them to keep every single word the same is silly. PEOPLE in general don't do that for crap smaller in scale. But I guess people who have that complaint NEVER broken a promise, NEVER stepped back on a word, NEVER changed their mind. BS!