FFXIV Housing = UNBELIEVABLY INFURIATING!

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

You have ignored my question (not surprising). Rising the prices isn't gonna prevent players from eventually owning a house. The devaluation timer would do it's job over time and plots would eventually drop to 50% of their value. All it would do is stop players from dealing with the hidden timer with virtually every plot that comes up.

Complaining about my FC's houses is like complaining about every single player with a personal house that prevents FCs from getting a house. We're a drop in the sea...

You asked a relevant question? No, I don't think you did. But to humor you, yes it "stops" when everyone can have a house. Everyone SHOULD be able to get some form of housing that allows access to all the features of housing. Apartments don't currently offer that. Your suggestion of raising prices would just gatekeep housing it would not address the issue of number of players vs number of available houses that provide all the amenities of housing. Without enough housing for everyone, not everyone will "eventually be able to own a house" because the supply cannot meet the demand. If everyone had billions of gil we'd still be in the same boat.

In the post you replied to I said, "I do believe something needs to change with how housing is handled". I did not say the answer was adding more wards. I know full well that continuously adding wards is untenable. Personally I think that since apartments were SE's answer (that didn't quit hit the mark) to "housing for all" that they should focus on addressing where apartments fall short.

Here's things I think could be done to make apartments more satisfactory to those seeking a home:

1) Add higher tier (and more expensive apartments) that have bigger interiors. The current apartment is fine for the price its at but bigger options would probably be appreciated I'm sure

2) Allow FC's to buy an apartment in the same manner as they buy houses, with the same features (workshop etc), so FC's who can't nab a house can still have a shared communal space for their members.

3) While it would be nicer to have an instanced outdoor space attached to apartments, a simple answer for gardening would be to create "apartment only" indoor garden beds (crossbreeding is another house feature apartment owners miss out on)

The current outdoor homes would simply become status symbols with no significant advantages over apartments like they currently have.

As for my "complaining" I did not specify any player in particular. I'm not going to say I wasn't including you, but I didn't call you out specifically. EVERY player monopolizing multiple houses like you do has no business chiming in on the topic of the lack of housing because those like yourself may well be a "drop in the sea", but you're still not helping the problem by bogarting multiple houses.