So what happens to houses with the expansion?

[Themarvin]

What happens to houses with the expansion, as I keep hearing about the EU Data Center thing going into 2 instead.. or how is that going to work out?

[MistakeNot]

What happens to houses with the expansion, as I keep hearing about the EU Data Center thing going into 2 instead.. or how is that going to work out?

Nothing will happen to existing houses. There might be more houses added, but I don't think that's confirmed yet.

[Vidu]

Why would the new datacenter influence the houses?
The servers are staying intact, they're only shuffled into new datacenters and new servers are being added, so more houses on those servers.
Nothings gonna happen to the existing ones, they're not merging servers or anything, just assigning them new datacenters.

[worldofneil]

Nothing will happen to existing houses. There might be more houses added, but I don't think that's confirmed yet.

There's two new servers being added to EU (one to Chaos, one to Light), so that's 8640 new houses right there (4,320 per new server).

The keynote on Friday said about Ishgard housing, but crafters/gatherers would have to make it happen first (that's all the details we got...)

[ElainaMason]

There's two new servers being added to EU (one to Chaos, one to Light), so that's 8640 new houses right there (4,320 per new server).

The keynote on Friday said about Ishgard housing, but crafters/gatherers would have to make it happen first (that's all the details we got...)

But I don't think the servers will come in the time when free transfers are available.
So I need to pay for transfer later for MAYBE getting a house on a new server. That doesnt sound fair for me.

[Dustytome]

The worlds as a whole are being reorganized to different datacenters. The only way housing will be effected is if someone currently with a house opts to transfer to a different world. As the house doesn't carry over when you transfer worlds, their plot will be demolished and they will be compensated the cost of the plot + 3 mil gil for possible furniture loss (apartments receive 500k + 500k for furniture).

[ElainaMason]

The problem is, that some housing-stuff is event stuff you cant put back to your inventory. And you cant buy this stuff with gil.

[Kurando]

Didn't it get suggested that Ishgardian Housing MIGHT be a thing next expac? So if that happens, then suddenly there will be a lot more properties available for purchase on every world so housing might not be a big issue.

[Dustytome]

Didn't it get suggested that Ishgardian Housing MIGHT be a thing next expac? So if that happens, then suddenly there will be a lot more properties available for purchase on every world so housing might not be a big issue.

It was hinted at, but it will likely be an entire patch or more after the reconstruction efforts on Ishgard begin and these things can get pushed back. Probably about/over a year from now since the expansion was slated for a June release.

[MaybeOliverB]

What happens? People will still cry about not having a house because SE keeps reducing the prices for no reason.