Petition for more wards / instanced housing

[Vesavius]

But they did listen. This was started in Oct 2017. SE increased the number of wards from 12 to 18 in January 2018.

It did temporarily solve the problem on most worlds.

IDC about 'temp' band aids. Increase the service to meet the demand of paying customers, or create bad feeling with those customers. MMORPGs are all about player retention, everyone, them and the other players, should care about that. You should care about that, not be saying "if you don't like it, leave".

The developers have already told us several times that adding new wards is problematic because of the way the system works. Right now, NA is the only region lacking available plots. There are worlds on the EU and JP data centers that do have plots available. SE has to expand wards on all world equally with the way they're programmed so adding more to help NA would leave mostly empty wards in the other regions.

Well, if that is a solution, is a xfer free? You didn't answer.

They have told us they're looking into making alts automatically tenants of house owned by another character on the same account and same world, but the x.1 patch seems to be when they have the biggest news for housing so here's to hoping we get some positive news for this one.

Well, let us hope so. The tenants idea is good. Too many older players have multiple properties (and then come here to tell us without that it's all good, it's not a big part of the game, and not to complain...), which clearly just breeds bad feeling and resentment. These things should not be encouraged by bad design and slow response to fix in a game that people do for fun.

When is this update due, do you know?

[Besame]

Well, the fact that people feel strongly enough to keep it going all that time and the devs haven't heard that makes me feel a bit queasy as a new customer, I must admit.

They added some wards along the way but they can never add enough for demand. Instanced housing with no neighborhoods except FCs is the only viable solution. I have 1 house and 1 apt period. My alts are in a FC. I'd like to see alts be able to reside with my main.

[Jojoya]

IDC about 'temp' band aids. Increase the service to meet the demand of paying customers, or create bad feeling with those customers. MMORPGs are all about player retention, everyone, them and the other players, should care about that. You should care about that, not be saying "if you don't like it, leave".

They can't cater to everything every player wants, though. It's not realistic.

As much housing drama as we get here in the English forums, it's still a minor concern overall in the world-wide player base. I am going to suggest to people who don't like the way the game is run to leave and find a new game. They're going to be unhappy if they stick around waiting for a game to change to meet their personal expectations. The game has more than enough satisfied customers to continue supporting the game through the planned end of the current main story arc (which they've hinted will conclude next expansion).

When is this update due, do you know?

The next live letter is Sept 15th. If they follow their normal pattern, it will be the first of two related to patch 5.1 with the second about 3 weeks later and the patch itself coming out mid to end of October.

As for transfers, transfer to a world marked New is free regardless of your origination world. Transfer to a Preferred world if free if your origination world is designated as Congested. More info about this can be found at https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ing/#worldtype

They just took Spriggan and Twintania (EU region) off New status while placing Exodus, Famfrit and Lamia (all NA Primal) on Preferred. Yojimbo and Zeromus (JP data center) are also Preferrred right now, though I don't know if that's a recent change.

[PunkySenpai]

Im losing my sanity over this

Signed!

[crystal8827958]

I would like to sign this too! Having a new housing system would bring in more players too.

[EternalAmbrosia]

I'll sign and support.

[MistyMew]

/signed!

Current design is horrid.