FFXIV Housing = UNBELIEVABLY INFURIATING!

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Cute, but I would urge you to demonstrate more introspection before playing on this field.

The ward system has been in place for nearly 6 years. You have to be out of your mind to even think about SE scrapping the concept or even divert from it. Regardless, who are you to say that everyone should be able to own a house? Ever since it was released, housing was supposed to be something challenging to acquire. Your opinion on the matter is at the complete opposite of what SE's has been saying.

Your little scenario would make sense if house prices were within gil cap range. But they aren't... talk about an embarrassing flaw... Houses are a fraction of what they used to cost and basically every player is "wealthy" enough, despite remaining dirt poor, to purchase one. Raising the prices up significantly would effectively prevent all those poor players to flood any given plot that comes up. Effectively making it so that the bulk of these players would either have to acquire more gil or wait it out. Either way, widening the gap would greatly alleviate the issues we are currently facing.

Apartments are perfectly fine as they are, especially since they are permanent and do not require to be entered withing a certain period of time. Let's not forget that they are bigger than small houses, excluding the yard, when 2.1 was released. If you want to profit from gardening, just do like every smart player and purchase someone's FC house. It's easy and you get the money back fairly quickly. If SE wants to expand on them by adding additional fees, great. The more money gets taken out of the game the better.

It doesn't matter if you named me or not since you're throwing all the multiple house owners in the same basket. Even though our motives might differ, we can find common grounds when it comes down to defending them. My FC or anyone else have put in the effort to acquire them while other players didn't. If we are preventing other players from acquiring a house, then every personal house owner out there that doesn't have tenants is inherently preventing other players from having a shot at housing. Every personal house owner, even with tenants, is inherently preventing houseless rank 6 FCs with more than 4 members from having a shot at housing.

Using your logic, a whole lot of players shouldn't be allowed to speak on the housing issues. It might even rule yourself out

I'm not sure I understand what "field" you think we're "playing on". I am merely stating that I disagree with your proposed solution and that I personally don't feel that someone hogging multiple houses should be weighing in on the housing issue. I will concede that my personal feelings on multiple house owners doesn't actually deny them the right to speak about it. Your "solution" is merely to gatekeep housing, and regardless of SE's original intent, it's clear that more players than SE anticipated WANT to engage in the player housing system.

I never said anything about scrapping the ward system, I was actually agreeing with you when I said that continuously adding more wards is untenable. At least with the way wards currently work. SE could very well make changes that allow adding all the wards they want for all I know.

Apartments are nice... but they don't offer the full range of amenities that a house does nor can FC's purchase one. If those two issues were addressed then apartments could serve well enough for those who cannot snag an outdoor house. People would still try to get an outdoor house for bragging rights, but they wouldn't be arbitrarily locked out of things like gardening and the workshop stuff if apartments provided those features.