Time to end the theft of home and bots - GIVE MORE WARDS-!

[MsMisato]

That is a pretty fake achievement since :
3. it keeps out some FCs and players who would have merit to have a house.

I don't know. FCs had their moment to make housing happened as the wards were originally designed for FCs but I am going to place equal blame on SE as the initial pricing structure for the wards was ridiculous making hard for even small FCS. Even then after the pricing was adjusted to entice an FC to buy a plot, no one bought into it. As I recall I believe the wards took off at the beginning individual housing was to be implemented later on. After SE opened it to individual purchasing, I remember coming back a couple of months later even after that and there were plots galore. I think the wards really took off to after the release of HW and even then it was easier to get plots because demo was pretty effective when it was left on. Hopefully when the timers are turned back on there will be a whole of lot plots like last May when they turned it back on.

That being said, having the demo timers serves a purpose. Its to help curb RMT for plots. I hate the click the placard with a passion. I spent countless hours but still I got 3 homes on 3 different servers it really does boil down to RNG Jesus favoring you. My second home, I got last July. I happen to see a lot for sale in Mist and walked up to it and bought it right away no one around. Only happened to me once out of the other times. But as for the 1st and 2nd time, I notice the plots become available between 4 am and 6:00 am PST thats my experience.

I am hoping the wards that will be added in Ishgard will help alleviate some of the housing pressures in the game the game. It would be a nice surprisedif it was instance housing of some sort like everyone wants.

But here is a glimpse of initial housing prices when it first launched. Mind you it was based on the amount of Gil circulating around the server but it was insane in pricing and truly only the people in swimming Gil like Scrooge McDuck could buy it lol. This was on Gilgamesh at the time:

Fifth-class Plot Fourth-class Plot Third-class Plot Second-class Plot First-class Plot
Small 8,000,000 8,500,000 9,000,000 9,800,000 10,000,000
Medium 30,000,000 31,875,000 33,750,000 35,625,000 37,500,000
Large 100,000,000 106,250,000 112,500,000 118,750,000 125,000,000

Edit
sorry for the crap copy paste for the original prices. Here is alike to the initial prices it's at the bottom of the patch notes 2.1 lol

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...7af43f3c43828a

[Eldevern]

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I forgot the first range prices but it makes me remember my first tought at housing release : FFXIV housing looks to be Aion inspired (both the Ward idea and the range price similar to the rumored auctions).

It is were we can see how outdated the design of housing is. It is all designed before big data and no-sql concepts.

The market really need a brand new and up-to-date MMO (housing, gameplay, design).