Why housing is bad, and how to fix it

[Nanami_Naniwa]

Not. Again. Please.

Edit:
Okay, I actually contribute something to this Topic: Please use one of the hundreds and hundreds of threads about this for your suggestion. There is no need of making just another one. There is not even a new or innovative idea. There have been more than enough reasons why a roulette system is even more stupid than it is right now. If you got enough time to make this thread why not use some of the time of reading one of the posts about this (there are literally more than FIVE other posts on the first page in this sub-thread)

[Daniolaut]

Not. Again. Please.

Excuse me? Not again?

I shouldnt offer advice to how to fix the housing situation?

Square-Enix shouldnt acknowledge the grave mistake they have made, and address the issue?

People who are using bots to claim houses should be rewarded while actual players, not breaking the Terms of Service, by using bots, who have been subscribed longer, arent able to get one?

If you think this is acceptable, even when Yoshida himself said FC and personal housing would not be shared, nor would it be tied to your subscription, and then the system encourages bot spamming.. sure nothing anyone says is going to change your mind, but logical thinking dictates this system needs to be addressed.

I'm sure more people quit the game over housing, than "the ARR quest line is too long."

Housing **should** be addressed before them changing or "condensing" the 2.0 quest line.



Edit
Ok, just because there are countless threads, you should go to all of them and tell them to stop?
There wouldnt be so many, if Square-Enix addressed the issue, instead of turning their attention to less important "problems."

Why the opposition, how about Square-Enix do something instead of wasting time on things that bare little to no consequence to player enjoyment? ... such as "condensing ARR quest line" or "reworking AST/DRK" or "reworking crafting/gathering" all of this was not asked for. But housing was. They need to get their focus back and address the actual issues. If you dont agree, sure, go to every thread telling people to stop trying to direct Sqaure-Enix to the important issues. Thats what the forums has become anyway.


All the suggestions I have read, do not add a gil cap, or doesnt add chance to winning based on more effort. The ones I read, also dont include a reward system for having lost the house that prevents encouraging RMT.

**********Most importantly, my thread includes Alternate character housing sharing, which is, again, a huge issue in the game. The people who have entire districts, are people with alts. Again, if alt automatic sharing was added at the start, which it should have been, half the problems wouldnt be nearly as severe.

[Vidu]

Excuse me? Not again?

Edit
Ok, just because there are countless threads, you should go to all of them and tell them to stop?
There wouldnt be so many, if Square-Enix addressed the issue, instead of turning their attention to less important "problems."

The point Nanami made is not to stop talking about the issue, it is stop creating a new thread every other day. By doing so you're actually hurting this cause, because they're apparently more likely to pay attention to large threads that discuss an issue instead of 100 small ones.

Flooding the forums with countless threads that all die after 2-3 pages because the topic at hand has already been discussed in 20 similar threads is not helping to bring attention to the problem (btw: a problem they're aware of), its actually taking attention away because they dont look at such small threads. Making a new thread isnt helping the issue, its hurting it.

Bottomline: Yes, talk about it! Discuss it! Try to make them aware of it - but you dont need to create your own thread. You're helping a lot more by posting in one of the many, many housing-threads by saying that you agree with it, maybe add suggestions that werent mention yet and giving likes to the posts you agree with. That way some foren-mod could easly see "Hey, here is a big thread with many comments and many likes, so this must be an issue a lot of people care about!" instead of having to sit down and count all the small threads that just repeat the same thing over and over again.
To quote the forum-rules in addition: "Please use the search function placed at the top of the forum to see if your questions have already been answered. If there happens to be a thread with similar topics, please divert your questions to that particular thread."

Little Edit: I'm also not quite sure if you're aware that "ARR quests are to long" and "we dont have enough housing" are two completly different problems that need attention from completly different people. Shortening the ARR-questline probably involves mainly the writers who are looking through all the quests, see what they need to adjust, if there need to be re-writes etc. until some programmer makes the needed adjustments. The main issue here is the leg-work before: Looking through the quests, writting stuff and so on.
The main issue with housing is the server-space and how that storage is handled there, aswell as the capacity of there servers. Thats nothing the lore-team can help with, I reckon...

People often seem to be under this missconception that any content can be exchanged for any other content and that us getting content A prevents us from getting content B because they're busy with content A. But often thats not really the case. We're not getting a fight instead of new armor-designs, because its two different departments working on those things. The battle-team cant just design an extra set of armor and the lore-team cant fix the housing issue.

[MistakeNot]

Excuse me? Not again?

I shouldnt offer advice to how to fix the housing situation?

No, that by itself is fine.

What is not fine, and what you should not do, is start yet another thread complaining about the house buying system.
There are already a gazillion of those threads, and you should have picked some existing thread to post your advice in.

[Nanami_Naniwa]

Excuse me? Not again?

I shouldnt offer advice to how to fix the housing situation?

Square-Enix shouldnt acknowledge the grave mistake they have made, and address the issue?

[...]


Edit
Ok, just because there are countless threads, you should go to all of them and tell them to stop?
There wouldnt be so many, if Square-Enix addressed the issue, instead of turning their attention to less important "problems."

[...]
**********Most importantly, my thread includes Alternate character housing sharing, which is, again, a huge issue in the game. The people who have entire districts, are people with alts. Again, if alt automatic sharing was added at the start, which it should have been, half the problems wouldnt be nearly as severe.

It is proven from previous topics that SE looks into threads with huge participation instead of several small threads. There has been a huge support thread for Viera for years, for Bluemage, etc. And they got heard. Not because people were spamming the threads but because there was one thread constantly added with suggestions and adjustments. Instead of making yet another thread with yet another suggestion you could have made a difference.

Wanna know how?

Look through the hundreds of threads. Collect all the ideas, all the suggestions that have been made, create your "new" thread and add all what was said before. Add links to the existing threads to show how many people have already taken interest in this topic. THIS could make a difference.

Right now you are just another guy who made just another thread about housing which will just not get passed page 5 (if at all) and gets burried in a week. While in the meantime two more threads regarding the same issue - yet again with perfect solution to a long existing problem - will appear.

You want to make a difference? You want to be heard? Then tackle the problem with the efford that is needed.