Ready to quit over housing.

[BokaSmowl]

It's weird, I don't even want a house that bad. Just the fact that me and my friend have nearly 100 million gil between us, and we can't even buy a SMALL house. I'm earning gil with nothing to sink it into. It seems like housing is supposed to be one of the end game gil sinks, but they make it nearly impossible to get one. I'm told to go to a dead server just to own a house. Why not have the number of wards on a server reflect the population count. Why does the most empty and most populated server have the exact same number of houses available. Why can't our money be used to upgrade servers to double the number or wards available. They can create new zones and content to add to the game on the regular, but they can't copy paste more housing wards? Now we all pay them monthly for this game, but only grandfathered players or lucky new players get to own a house. And after seeing how many houses became available after 4.57, just knowing that the last 4 months I've been looking for a house, that there's been this many sitting vacant and unused since BEFORE OCTOBER 2018 is especially frustrating.

The terrible placard camping system is just icing on the cake. Not only are there not enough houses available, but to try and get one I have to devote 24 hours to clicking the same 4 buttons over and over. Not only did lots of empty houses finally enter the market, but I also managed to lose the clicking war every time. Not while afk, while actively clicking as fast as possible.

So now I feel bad because my friend feels bad. All she wants in this game is a house and she can't get one, and I can't get one for her to decorate and let her play with either. And she has too many friends on server to leave.

I doubt my friend will quit over it, but I get upset more easily and this system is really making me question the design decisions put into this game. Making one of the fun activities in the game that some players really want to do a restricted activity, what for?

[IkaraGreydancer]

I feel you OP. Took a day off from the game yesterday myself due to this. I personally dont think SE really cares about housing tbh. At the end of the day even if they add more wards the system probably wont change therefore hundreds of people will still be houseless.
I hear the idea of instanced housing floating around alot. So maybe SE will take that into consideration. I wont hold my breath though. Eureka as a whole has shown me I cant trust SE to make smart decisions.

[Rufalus]

They just added world visit so you can play on all of the worlds on your datacenter. If you move your home world to a place where vacant houses are available, you won't be leaving your friends behind. Simply travel back using the main aetheryte at a city after purchasing a house on a different world.

Your friends can also use the visit system to travel to your world to see your house. At times when you want to chat to people who are not currently on the same world as you, the following work: /tell to friends, cross world linkshell, FC chat. Only normal linkshells do not work for cross world communication. They are working on increasing the amount of cross world linkshells we can join.

It takes more consideration than just copy pasting to increase the number of wards. There's a significant server cost running a large amount of wards simultaneously. If they generate too many wards they cannot guarantee adequate server performance. Certain datacenters may each be getting one new world soon which would add many thousands of new open plots to purchase (EU).

[Canadane]

If the fact that you have nothing to spend gil on is what's driving you to quit, well I have bad news for you as a homeowner.

[IkaraGreydancer]

They just added world visit so you can play on all of the worlds on your datacenter. If you move your home world to a place where vacant houses are available, you won't be leaving your friends behind. Simply travel back using the main aetheryte at a city after purchasing a house on a different world.

Your friends can also use the visit system to travel to your world to see your house. At times when you want to chat to people who are not currently on the same world as you, the following work: /tell to friends, cross world linkshell, FC chat. Only normal linkshells do not work for cross world communication. They are working on increasing the amount of cross world linkshells we can join.

It takes more consideration than just copy pasting to increase the number of wards. There's a significant server cost running a large amount of wards simultaneously. If they generate too many wards they cannot guarantee adequate server performance. Certain datacenters may each be getting one new world soon which would add many thousands of new open plots to purchase (EU).

Or just give us instanced housing

[AnnaRosa]

It's weird, I don't even want a house that bad. Just the fact that me and my friend have nearly 100 million gil between us, and we can't even buy a SMALL house. I'm earning gil with nothing to sink it into. It seems like housing is supposed to be one of the end game gil sinks, but they make it nearly impossible to get one. I'm told to go to a dead server just to own a house. Why not have the number of wards on a server reflect the population count. Why does the most empty and most populated server have the exact same number of houses available. Why can't our money be used to upgrade servers to double the number or wards available. They can create new zones and content to add to the game on the regular, but they can't copy paste more housing wards? Now we all pay them monthly for this game, but only grandfathered players or lucky new players get to own a house. And after seeing how many houses became available after 4.57, just knowing that the last 4 months I've been looking for a house, that there's been this many sitting vacant and unused since BEFORE OCTOBER 2018 is especially frustrating.

The terrible placard camping system is just icing on the cake. Not only are there not enough houses available, but to try and get one I have to devote 24 hours to clicking the same 4 buttons over and over. Not only did lots of empty houses finally enter the market, but I also managed to lose the clicking war every time. Not while afk, while actively clicking as fast as possible.

So now I feel bad because my friend feels bad. All she wants in this game is a house and she can't get one, and I can't get one for her to decorate and let her play with either. And she has too many friends on server to leave.

I doubt my friend will quit over it, but I get upset more easily and this system is really making me question the design decisions put into this game. Making one of the fun activities in the game that some players really want to do a restricted activity, what for?

Think that is entirely your personal decision which totally respect can understand that for some players the housing system is also an important component of the game however FFXIV MMO has many other things to do and have fun with, without anything to add,

Good luck and have fun in your future MMO!

P.S.- Just in Louisouix and Omega you have 630 small plots and 200 for sale, respectively.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nsus%21/page23

[Celestene]

It's weird, I don't even want a house that bad.

But... you are ready to quit over it? I would say KEEP the gil and WAIT to see if Stormbringer comes out with NEW housing. Quitting for a house you do not even want seems pointless.

[worldofneil]

WAIT to see if Stormbringer comes out with NEW housing

Sorry, but that's extremely unlikely. If there was housing they would have been sure to say something massive like that.

Closest we got was hints at Ishgard housing IF we built it which sounds a lot like the Doman Restoration was in SB, but even then don't expect to see it until like 5.4 which is about 18 months away.

I could of course be wrong, but I just wouldn't get your hopes up.

[ern815]

I believe they'll increase housing plots someday... It probably would take some time though.

[Dyvid]

Report botters and buy an apartment. Only advice I can give.