only getting 95% of what we're paying for.

[Penthea]

So your solution is leave all my friends to get a house?

With world visiting you won't have to leave your friends completely behind as long as your new server is on the same data centre as theirs. I understand that if you want to stay in the same fc this isn't straight forward. But the point is you won't be completely cut off.

How am I supposed to know what servers have houses on them until I create the character?

You can check three out of the four housing districts on low lvl alts. Only Shirogane requires you to be high lvl. Doing that is standard practise for anyone thinking of changing server.

This is an abusive business relationship sorry you can't see that.

I take it you have never been in an actual abusive relationship then.

The housing situation is bad but calling it an abusive relationship is a huge overreaction. I wonder how you would feel if things were as bad as 1.0, back when SE knowingly released an unfinished game with no content and a horrendous ui, with severe server stability issues and performance issues to the point that the game was unplayable for so many, even several months after release. It was as bad as Fallout 76. What would you call that I wonder? A crime against humanity?

It's not a technological limitation issue.

Actually in the case of FFXIV it could be. It's built on the foundations of the extremely broken 1.0. A lot of that bad code is still lurking in the game, and it prevents a lot of things that should be standard to be introduced slower or not at all. SE had no choice but to build the game in this manner because 2.0 had to be built in record time to not lose the whole playerbase after the disastrous 1.0.

You guys probably have housing. I get it it's a non-issue for you.

I do but I didn't always have one. During the time my character was homeless I didn't accuse SE of abusing the playerbase. I was frustrated and disappointed. But I wasn't flinging disproportionately harsh insults at SE. It's not like they intentionally made the housing system bad just to mess with players. They have even stated that they regret the way they made the system.

And it's not like I suddenly became okay with housing as soon as I got a house. I am very active in the housing forums and I regularly criticise SE's poor decision making when it comes to this part of the game. I will always feel as if housing has issues that need to be solved as long as players are unfairly left out due to how the system works. Not everyone who has a house has the attitude "I got mine, so it's all good".

SE aren't going to listen to a player who accuses them of being abusive. They would be more receptive to constructive criticism than insults.