The housing system is trash, and other players aren't making it any better.

[Canadane]

I was talking to you, GomJabbar. With your little "that's not even close to accurate" when I had the actually SE reported numbers to back my statement up. Whether they are 100% accurate or not is not my problem. That's just information reported by SE themselves. Where is YOUR evidence that the numbers are incorrect?

You posted it.

[Celestene]

Dear SE,

I don't know what the problem is with creating more housing. The demand is way higher than the supply. Since housing was released, players on all servers have been demanding more availability. It was really nice for you guys to create additional housing, but you still haven't fixed the problem with availability. FFXIV has 14 Million players. Every server has over 9000 active accounts, and the housing availability is absolutely atrocious.

What makes this system awful is only compounded by the fact that you've got 10 players spamming "purchase plot" trying to get lucky and be the first to click the buy button the moment the plot is available for purchase.

Good old fashioned camp rules are completely ignored due to the frustration of the players that housing is not available. Players come and go, and lots of houses are lost to auto-demolition, which you've had turned off for months longer than necessary, creating an even bigger shortage in lieu of the fact that many of these homes belong to players that probably haven't logged on in months, for whatever reason.

I've had to plots sniped by players running up and clicking the placard while I was actively camping the plot, and just got lucky. This is completely unacceptable, when people are spending hours camping a plot because of the shortage of housing plots.

Please fix this. You could lose subs because of something like this. There doesn't need to be enough houses for everyone, but when you can't even buy a house for a Free Company, that FC will fall apart. FC members, especially sprouts, need access to the perk and benefits of an FC house. If you can't provide more housing options, at least make it so FC's can get apartments or something for crying out loud.

Most had to fight for their house. When I first moved to cactual waited about 3 hrs for mine. You say they might loose subs over it? Who the weak ones that don't want to try for a house are the same that quit mid-dungeon and don't want to wait in queues. Why complain when you could actually go to the housing suggestion thread and just make it more productive? When you make a post like this it feels hostile and like you want counter-points?

[Vahlnir]

I'm using numbers reported by SE. If they aren't accurate, that's SE's problem. But if those are the numbers reported by SE, they are the numbers i used in my post. Accuracy is on them. That's all i'm getting at. Don't be a part of the problem and make drama on a forum like a trolliollio.

14 million accounts created =/= 14 million active players. 14 million people have probably tried FF XIV at some point or another but the actual figure (active players) is far, far below that number at any given time.

As to what actually matters in regards to this topic, I agree that the housing system could use some work. They should, at least imo, be trying to meet the player demand which far exceeds the number of houses available.

[chelebelle]

So, I came to make a housing complaint thread and much to my non-surprise there's already plenty of those, so I'll just chime in here. This system is terrible. I understand the reasoning, though I missed the time of the bad house flipping while I was on hiatus I suppose. I've spent the last two days trying to get a house. Every single time, without fail, someone who already has a house rolls up and just takes it. The timer-jumping for people who already have the privilege of owning a plot is incredibly frustrating. Especially when you've been camping out at a spot for upwards of six hours, only to watch them stroll up for the first time and just take it.

Is there any way to prioritize for people who've never owned a plot at all? Or at the very least to not give priority to people who already have a place any longer.

[Besame]

SE offers housing as a part of their gaming experience. They also deluge quest, retainer and event rewards with cute decorations for housing. Why do this if only a small portion of your player base can use these rewards? Housing should be available to ALL players.

[Wilford111]

TBH I've played for nearly 4 years and haven't touched housing and I'm still happy with the game /shrug

[Kurando]

SE offers housing as a part of their gaming experience. They also deluge quest, retainer and event rewards with cute decorations for housing. Why do this if only a small portion of your player base can use these rewards? Housing should be available to ALL players.

Most housing items events can also be used in apartments, so in actual fact a big portion of the player base CAN use these rewards they just choose not to, so they are either too good for apartments or they are not willing to compromise (joining an FC with house, using FC rooms, moving worlds etc) to begin with. Yes housing has some issues, but don't act like there are no options out there.

[Besame]

Most housing items events can also be used in apartments, so in actual fact a big portion of the player base CAN use these rewards they just choose not to, so they are either too good for apartments or they are not willing to compromise (joining an FC with house, using FC rooms, moving worlds etc) to begin with. Yes housing has some issues, but don't act like there are no options out there.

I have a med house and an apt, my hubby has a FC so it's not a problem with me. There is no way in "H" I would even buy a FC room in another non-family/rl owned FC. Too ez to get the boot if things change. The fact is, SE said housing is available and it is not to all players that want, period. Everyone that desires a reg house with a garden, stable, etc. should have it available without camping spots or changing worlds.

[Goona]

The question is, how hard is it to add more housing? They already demonstrated they can do it, by adding the additional housing they did just a short while ago. They still don't have enough housing to support the player population and demand.

The real question is: How hard is it to add a garden to the apartment? I just wanna grow some crops, and the FC garden is 100% full.

Apartment is instanced, so load on the tiny gerbils that power the FF servers is minimized, since they only have to render when I'm there. If they are worried about the economy (lol but whatever), limit the garden apts. to one per character.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

The real question is: How hard is it to add a garden to the apartment? I just wanna grow some crops, and the FC garden is 100% full.

Apartment is instanced, so load on the tiny gerbils that power the FF servers is minimized, since they only have to render when I'm there. If they are worried about the economy (lol but whatever), limit the garden apts. to one per character.

I have heard the excuse is that gardens won't work unless they are in a zone that's open all the time like the outdoor residential zones but doesn't make sense to me because you can grow plants inside your apartment in flower pots with no problem. And if a constantly open outdoor map is necessary for some strange reason, why not set it up as a single constantly open area that everyone uses but is phased so you never see other people or their garden plants. That way it looks like its yours alone but actually everyone is using that same map, they just cant see each other or interact with other people's plants.