I dont think ishgard restoration was thought out very well...

[kaynide]

IMO, it should have been handled like Doma. And if indeed it eventually becomes a housing ward, I’d say it should be gated behind that progress (so didn’t bother with event, can’t buy a house).


But that is exactly why it is not personal like Doma: it absolutely is housing and per player progress would have locked people out of housing. Nobody is going to progress that story months later if there is no house to be had at the end.

[MsQi]

IMO, it should have been handled like Doma. And if indeed it eventually becomes a housing ward, I’d say it should be gated behind that progress (so didn’t bother with event, can’t buy a house).


But that is exactly why it is not personal like Doma: it absolutely is housing and per player progress would have locked people out of housing. Nobody is going to progress that story months later if there is no house to be had at the end.

Is there any doubt it is becoming a housing ward?

Well that would be a big slap in the face to have it gated; so when you finish you find there are no houses left. That is assuming it would be using the current housing system, any newcomer would be SOL.

I would be all for a gated system if at the end you were guaranteed a house, perhaps using a new fully instanced system.

[HeulGDarian]

Is there any doubt it is becoming a housing ward?

Well that would be a big slap in the face to have it gated; so when you finish you find there are no houses left. That is assuming it would be using the current housing system, any newcomer would be SOL.

I would be all for a gated system if at the end you were guaranteed a house, perhaps using a new fully instanced system.

I wish it would be anyone who got to top 12 can take the house he owns to there for free. i dont think people would agree though , and eh im just glad that i got a house and not a cottage, can just go there once people leave ishgard for whatever new housing they add after it.

[wereotter]

Is there any doubt it is becoming a housing ward?

Well that would be a big slap in the face to have it gated; so when you finish you find there are no houses left. That is assuming it would be using the current housing system, any newcomer would be SOL.

I would be all for a gated system if at the end you were guaranteed a house, perhaps using a new fully instanced system.

It absolutely looks like a housing ward... but then again there are several quests in the Foundation where you meet the people who are actually living in these houses. So I'm going to laugh SO hard if Square is just trolling us all into making what looks like a housing ward, but then doesn't turn out to be that.

[Rosenstrauch]

It absolutely looks like a housing ward... but then again there are several quests in the Foundation where you meet the people who are actually living in these houses. So I'm going to laugh SO hard if Square is just trolling us all into making what looks like a housing ward, but then doesn't turn out to be that.

I don't see these as being mutually exclusive—the current area could simply be "Ward Zero", with the rest being the normal 1-12 or 18 or however many wards we get these days.

[SamSmoot]

IMO, it should have been handled like Doma. And if indeed it eventually becomes a housing ward, I’d say it should be gated behind that progress (so didn’t bother with event, can’t buy a house).


But that is exactly why it is not personal like Doma: it absolutely is housing and per player progress would have locked people out of housing. Nobody is going to progress that story months later if there is no house to be had at the end.

At least, players that pushed it past a certain number of levels should get first chance at the houses there for a month, after which, any unsold ones will become open to the general public. Personally, I'm not interested in housing, so I only did it to finish leveling my crafts and stopped running it when they were all topped off.

[LaylaTsarra]

At least, players that pushed it past a certain number of levels should get first chance at the houses there for a month, after which, any unsold ones will become open to the general public. Personally, I'm not interested in housing, so I only did it to finish leveling my crafts and stopped running it when they were all topped off.

Not everyone crafts or does that content why should they have second place regards to housing? They got xp, tons of rewards which are firmament exclusive. They don't deserver special treatment for housing sorry don't agree.

[Arillyn]

Not everyone crafts or does that content why should they have second place regards to housing? They got xp, tons of rewards which are firmament exclusive. They don't deserver special treatment for housing sorry don't agree.

I understand what you are saying. By that same token, if people who actively worked to unlock that housing area (like me) end up having no chance to get a house there, but people who didn't do anything to help unlock it do get the houses - I don't think that's fair either. If the the Ishgard Housing isn't unlocked on a server, no one is getting a house there on that server. This is why I really really REALLY hope SE will surprise us and that the NPC houses you see now will always be there and any player housing is instanced from that so anyone who wants a house there can get one. I know it's like no chance of that happening, but that would be amazing.

[LaylaTsarra]

I understand what you are saying. By that same token, if people who actively worked to unlock that housing area (like me) end up having no chance to get a house there, but people who didn't do anything to help unlock it do get the houses

You got xp and rewards and there will be a ton of new rewards with additional releases. That doesn't entitle you to special access to housing something which so many are clamoring for. Sorry but I don't think the dev team is silly enough to approve something so divisive to the player community.

[Reinha]

By that same token, if people who actively worked to unlock that housing area (like me) end up having no chance to get a house there, but people who didn't do anything to help unlock it do get the houses - I don't think that's fair either.

That's what server based content is like. Being on the server is the requirement to get the rewards. It's the same thing with FC bonuses. It doesn't matter if you don't contribute. If someone wants the xp buff everyone else gets to share it too.