Housing Census!

[Eryna]

Why so many plots available? People are bailing out on Crystal data center?

It's because Crystal DC has a lot of small servers.
But a lot of people used the free transfer period to go back to Aether and Primal too.

[Jojoya]

Coeurl update Jun-13-2019

S/M/L
Lavender Beds: 10 / 0 / 0
Mist: 18 / 0 / 0
Goblet: 106 / 0 / 0
Shirogane: 0 / 0 / 0

Why so many plots available? People are bailing out on Crystal data center?

The people who wanted to bail on Crystal did so during the free transfer period, which is long since over, and their houses already purchased by other players. There weren't more than a handful of houses still available a week after the free transfer period ended and that had people alarmed.

It's auto-demo finally being activate again for 45 days that has freed up the current available houses. The number available right now is still far less than it was last October before auto-demo was suspended and we're already watching it decrease again.

Our populations on Crystal are growing, not decreasing.

Any particular reason you're going out of your way trying to imply that Crystal is failing as a data center just because of housing numbers? Because I assure you we're doing just fine.

[GomJabbar]

Any particular reason you're going out of your way trying to imply that Crystal is failing as a data center just because of housing numbers? Because I assure you we're doing just fine.

Seems like an overly defensive response to what was, basically, a simple question. And one that wasn't really implying anything... I think he was just genuinely curious.

[Jojoya]

Seems like an overly defensive response to what was, basically, a simple question. And one that wasn't really implying anything... I think he was just genuinely curious.

If he was just curious, why didn't he ask "Why do those worlds have so many available houses when other worlds are full?" instead of assuming a reason for it and then using loaded language when stating his assumed reason?

Yeah, it's not simple curiosity. Players on Aether worlds have been taking potshots at Crystal since it was added. Getting pretty tiresome.

[LaylaTsarra]

Why so many plots available? People are bailing out on Crystal data center?

Crystal is a new datacenter. Two of the highest population servers are on Crystal by the way while others are fairly low pop but with WT now that's not necessarily a bad thing. One can buy a house on a low pop server and travel to the others without restriction. It's still very difficult to buy housing on either Mateus or Balmung (which is one of the few servers locked to new character formation). Hopefully some of the restrictions will be lifted for WT like checking your mail and joining linkshells among others. We'll have to wait and see how that goes.

There were quite a few transfers to Aether during the free transfer given that datacenter is perceived to be more raid focused and as such many either created alts on Aether or moved a character there. It remains to be seen how Crystal stacks up as a raid/duty focused datacenter with the arrival of 5.0. I have a level 70 WHM on Blamung and will be leveling her to 80 when the time comes.

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...dying-game-%29

Lucky Bancho Active Character Statistics

Fun aside, this is an uptick of 412,000 from the last census on February 10th. Between returning players and new players, XIV has nearly doubled its active character population going into Shadowbringers. Of course, this number will inevitably drop as people lose interest but it remains the highest total XIV has ever mustered.

For a little extra trivia

Top Five Servers (Population)

Balmung
Mateus
Gilgamesh
Cactuar
Cerberus

[AnnaRosa]

Chaos DC:

Omega 16th June around 09:49 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 0

- The Lavender Beds: 4 S

- The Goblet: 46 S

- Shirogane: 1 M
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Louisouix 16th June around 09:49 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 37 S

- The Lavender Beds: 25 S

- The Goblet: 264 S

- Shirogane: 2 S


In 4 days were sold a total of 9 S plots in Omega and 21 S plots in Louisouix

[Azurith]

Coeurl update Jun-13-2019

S/M/L
Lavender Beds: 10 / 0 / 0
Mist: 18 / 0 / 0
Goblet: 106 / 0 / 0
Shirogane: 0 / 0 / 0



The people who wanted to bail on Crystal did so during the free transfer period, which is long since over, and their houses already purchased by other players. There weren't more than a handful of houses still available a week after the free transfer period ended and that had people alarmed.

It's auto-demo finally being activate again for 45 days that has freed up the current available houses. The number available right now is still far less than it was last October before auto-demo was suspended and we're already watching it decrease again.

Our populations on Crystal are growing, not decreasing.

Any particular reason you're going out of your way trying to imply that Crystal is failing as a data center just because of housing numbers? Because I assure you we're doing just fine.

A lot of people I know consider Crystal a dead datacenter, for everything outside RP. Raiding /end game content ETC mostly because of Balmung. I know several who gave it a chance and jumped ship. Housing otherwise wouldn't be a good metric for this since a lot of people tie housing and RP together.

[GomJabbar]

A lot of people I know consider Crystal a dead datacenter, for everything outside RP. Raiding /end game content ETC mostly because of Balmung. I know several who gave it a chance and jumped ship. Housing otherwise wouldn't be a good metric for this since a lot of people tie housing and RP together.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. People getting all salty about it doesn't exactly make people want to move over there either...

[AnnaRosa]

Now with the new server Spriggan on Chaos DC house market changed these are the census of the day after the new server open:

Chaos DC:

Ragnarok 18th June around 14:20 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 1 S

- The Lavender Beds: 1 S

- The Goblet: 6 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Omega 18th June around 14:25 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 5 S

- The Lavender Beds: 8 S

- The Goblet: 56 S + 1M
medium: ward 18th plot 49 price: 20.000.000 gil

- Shirogane: 6 S
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Cerberus 18th June around 14:20 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 3 S

- The Lavender Beds: 5 S

- The Goblet: 9 S

- Shirogane: 4 S
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Moogle 18th June around 14:21 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 1 S

- The Lavender Beds: 1 S

- The Goblet: 5 S

- Shirogane: 5 S
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Louisouix 18th June around 14:40 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 40 S + 2M
medium:
ward 18th plot 59 price: 17.000.000 gil
ward 16th plot 4 price: 20.000.000 gil

- The Lavender Beds: 35 S + 1 M
medium:
ward 17th plot 46 price: 20.000.000 gil

- The Goblet: 283 S + 5 M
medium:
ward 1st plot 19 price: 20.000.000 gil
ward 2nd plot 11 price: 16.000.000 gil
ward 4th plot 4 price: 19.000.000 gil
ward 9th plot 8 price: 18.000.000 gil
ward 18th plot 55 price: 16.000.000 gil

- Shirogane: 15 S + 5M
medium:
ward 10th plot 31 price: 20.000.000 gil
ward 12th plot 24 price: 19.000.000 gil
ward 13th plot 45 price: 18.000.000 gil
ward 16th plot 31 price: 20.000.000 gil
ward 17th plot 31 price: 20.000.000 gil
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Spriggan 18th June around 13:00 GMT +1, plots not available.

[Lexi]

So on the new server there is still the invisible timer even though they are new?