Isn't it safe to assume more wards have to be added?

[Gallus]

I can't get my hands on a house right now no matter what, size, place, whenever one frees up the random timer strikes and a legion of unresponsive zombies with sad faces start spamming the placard. I was hoping this would be the best time to get a house since we are in that moment of the game where a lot of people have left because we are still 3-4 months away from the expansion and almost everyone are done with the SB content. However, even under these circumstances, I can't still get one.
What the hell is going to happen when the Shadowbringers expansion happens and the population increases massively? Isn't it safe to assume that the demand for housing will rise exponentially? Is like SE...really going to do nothing about it? Or am I missing something here.

[TenraiNagi]

More wards won’t be enough to give houses to all players interested and there will always people left out.
Let’s just hope instanced housing is introduced to put a smile on all the zombies that you saw and breathe life into them again!

[Laphael]

We will get a new EU server with Shb. You could go there or hope that enough ppl go there and plots free up.
Ragnarok is one of the fullest EU-Servers.

I don´t think instanced housing will happen.

Maybe we get a new housing ward in ishgard during 5.x

[Svaltus]

I can't get my hands on a house right now no matter what, size, place, whenever one frees up the random timer strikes and a legion of unresponsive zombies with sad faces start spamming the placard. I was hoping this would be the best time to get a house since we are in that moment of the game where a lot of people have left because we are still 3-4 months away from the expansion and almost everyone are done with the SB content. However, even under these circumstances, I can't still get one.
What the hell is going to happen when the Shadowbringers expansion happens and the population increases massively? Isn't it safe to assume that the demand for housing will rise exponentially? Is like SE...really going to do nothing about it? Or am I missing something here.

instanced housing is really the only way to assure that EVERYONE has the opportunity to get a house. theres more players than houses. that being said, I like the concept of having neighbors.

[Nalien]

instanced housing is really the only way to assure that EVERYONE has the opportunity to get a house. theres more players than houses. that being said, I like the concept of having neighbors.

Why not both?

Make the plots instanced; Wall them off, have us interact with a gate or the placard to enter the instance. Would actually make the neighborhood feel of housing wards feel more alive; Rather than one or two groups gathering at the nearest Market Board, you'd have far more people. Right now everyone who owns Plot 3 in the Lavender Beds, for example... That's 1 plot spread across 18 wards + subdivisions, those people will rarely, if ever, see each other. Make the plot instanced though? They all gather in the same zone, walk up to the same placard, and enter their own instance. That'll feel far more like a neighborhood than what we currently have, which is pretty much just a dead zone...

[Svaltus]

I think I saw you or perhaps someone else post this idea elsewhere recently, and I agree 100 percent, it's an instanced solution that keeps the feeling that your actually in a neighborhood, and at the same time increases the likelihood you would see other players in a residential district.

[Jojoya]

We will get a new EU server with Shb. You could go there or hope that enough ppl go there and plots free up.
Ragnarok is one of the fullest EU-Servers.

I don´t think instanced housing will happen.

Maybe we get a new housing ward in ishgard during 5.x

We already have instanced housing. It's called apartments. It does need serious improvement for it to be an attractive option compared to a ward house, though.

Fortunately, just giving players options for apartment size has the potential to shift a lot of the demand away from wards and that should be a relatively simple thing for SE to do since the interior of a house is already instanced.

From there, adding in some sort of patio with exterior view and expanded gardening access would take care of most of the remaining complaints. Something that will never demo and costs a fraction of the gil but still has the same interior space and gardening? I think most players who want housing would be fine with it.

If they can pull off the dynamic exterior view from within an instanced area that they had talked about at one of the FanFests when the balcony question came up in the Q&A, even better.

[AnnaRosa]

I can't get my hands on a house right now no matter what, size, place, whenever one frees up the random timer strikes and a legion of unresponsive zombies with sad faces start spamming the placard. I was hoping this would be the best time to get a house since we are in that moment of the game where a lot of people have left because we are still 3-4 months away from the expansion and almost everyone are done with the SB content. However, even under these circumstances, I can't still get one.
What the hell is going to happen when the Shadowbringers expansion happens and the population increases massively? Isn't it safe to assume that the demand for housing will rise exponentially? Is like SE...really going to do nothing about it? Or am I missing something here.

Yes agree with you so you have an idea there is this guy called Shu in our server and he only owns 32 houses of different sizes all and in the same wards, in Mist it's really unfair we already opened report to warn the gms about it.
Changing subject my husband alt hold a small plot on Mist he wishes to get rid off it's empty he does not wish to keep it anyway so he just waiting for the demolition mail with date and time, if you want can keep you update it too.

[Dustytome]

Fortunately, just giving players options for apartment size has the potential to shift a lot of the demand away from wards and that should be a relatively simple thing for SE to do since the interior of a house is already instanced.

I feel like there was a translated interview where they already said that wouldn't be possible. I can't seem to find it again though.

addendum: And then just like that I find it.

- They can't change the layout or size of house interiors, plots or housing areas due to design (people kept asking for changes to those); it'd cause bugs (my speculation: it's how furniture coordinates are saved)

Translated from this by Luna on the ffxiv reddit discord.

Not sure if that applies to apartments as well.

[Jojoya]

I feel like there was a translated interview where they already said that wouldn't be possible. I can't seem to find it again though.

addendum: And then just like that I find it.


Translated from this by Luna on the ffxiv reddit discord.

Not sure if that applies to apartments as well.

That is just for houses. They had already said last year that apartment sizes were possible and they were considering that among other housing changes.

What I'm referring to wouldn't be changing the size of an existing apartment but rather a player being able to choose a specific size when making the purchase.