Please give alts on the same service account access to the same personal house.

[LaylaTsarra]

I also worked hard for getting all the cross class buffs when it was needed for whatever class, even disliking playing some of it... and now updates and patches and expansions later I don't got my beloved flash or anything down those lines, because the developers took it away from me... it is the exact same scenario.... they made the PvP mode the feast bad when they made it 4v4 vs 8v8.... give us back what we used to have devs... they removed the original Diadem in favour of the new one... I used to go and farm whatever materials of age there, but no more... give me that back developers...

They didn't take those away from you they made changes to how the cross class skills were acquired and coming from an old timer I think what they did was a good thing for the game. They removed flash and gave you other aggro management skills. What was so special about flash? They removed my Aero III, Stoneskin and Protect now am I supposed to use that as a justification for removing a house from someone? Relative to PVP I can't comment directly about that I don't play it all that much. Whether the changes were good or bad I suspect is a matter of perspective. There are probably those who love the changes.

On the other hand when they removed those skills or changed PVP did they remove mounts from people who earned them using the old methods? Did they remove achievements from those who achieved them?

I don't think so.

There is a difference when it comes to making changes in the game just as they did with housing purchases by restricting one personal house per account per server. Just like they didn't remove any rewards or achievements earned in other venues they aren't about to remove housing from people who earned it within the rules.

I suppose you also have a problem with duties that can be unsynced thus making the acquiring of rewards easier or putting mounts and rewards in moogle tomes events?

I want to know where they REMOVED REWARDS OR CONTENT EARNED by people after making changes to the game. Can you cite any of those?

[Jojoya]

They didn't take those away from you they made changes to how the cross class skills were acquired and coming from an old timer I think what they did was a good thing for the game.

And there are plenty of players who think taking away the extra houses over the current limits from those who had them grandfathered would be a good thing for the game because it would give more players access to a house.

You don't like the idea of removing grandfathering because it means you would lose your extra houses, a privilege most other players are not allowed to have.

Put yourself in the shoes of a new player who has the GC rank, has the gil - and can't buy a house because there are none available. Would you still think it's good for the game to let others keep their multiple houses when you don't get to have even one? If so, relinquish all your current housing because if it's good for them then it's good for you.

[LaylaTsarra]

And there are plenty of players who think taking away the extra houses over the current limits from those who had them grandfathered would be a good thing for the game because it would give more players access to a house.

Well the bottom line is the development team and the director don't agree with them. They recognize those players did nothing wrong and THEY AREN'T GOING TO PENALIZE them for it and made the decision to grandfather them. You may not like it because you want what they have but they aren't going to lose their houses.

Fixing the housing problem isn't going to be based on removing a few houses from those who have them grandfathered.

relinquish all your current housing because if it's good for them then it's good for you.

How about they let alts share housing with their main? Perhaps with that addition many with grandfathered homes might do just that. Many probably wouldn't have gotten another house if their alt was able to share one to begin with. As it stands right now alts can't even teleport to a mains house or even use the mender when they get there. Is that fair? Why is it that an alt has to clear main story, unlock and clear all dungeons and content, collect all their own mounts and minions, and so on, yet you're trying to tell me they have no right to use housing?

Now they've made it so alts can't buy housing yet they've done NOTHING to allow them to use the house that their main owns on their same account and that is simply ridiculous and that is what this thread is actually about.

[Arielen]

why do we keep talking about grandfathering in every single god damn thread that isn't related to any subject that touches on it is what I want to know

[Sauteed]

I wish they would allow this for a few reasons. Allowing alts to access their main character's house can help help curb the instances where somebody may feel like they need to create an alt and get an FC house for them. If it is a business concern and they are afraid people will pass items to their alts I think you may realize more damage gets done by allowing some one to own multiple fcs on one account because they will store things in fc chests as well as keep some one else from getting a home or fc building for themselves or fc use.

I can only think this has something to do with ensuring someone purchases additional retainers to store deco on them instead of allowing an alt to share a house and possibly storing deco on them. I sincerely doubt it is a coding issue or a server back end problem and it is some business executive trying to squeeze every cent they can out of additional services. For some people like me I have a TON of deco and it clogs inventory and retainer space. I have a retainer with almost nothing but house and yard deco on them and random deco on the others. So I'm assuming here that is what is really behind the decision to not allow alts to share them.

[Jojoya]

why do we keep talking about grandfathering in every single god damn thread that isn't related to any subject that touches on it is what I want to know

Technically it is related. Ultimately the topic is supply. Why do we want our alts to be able to share houses? Because the supply isn't large enough for each to have their own house.

Why is grandfathering seen as bad by some when it comes to the issue of supply? Because it shifts part of the already limited supply into the hands of fewer players who are allowed to have multiples where others have none.

Removing the grandfathered plots is seen as an easy to achieve, though it's not an actual solution. The real fix - changing the housing system so every player who wants a house can get a house - is not. It's seen by many as an impossibility despite the number of other MMOs that successfully use instanced house so not only does every character get to have a house, they get to have multiple houses if they want.

RIFT is generally seen as a failed WoW clone but man were Dimensions fun. I had a dozen Dimension decorated with different themes - literal tree houses, war sanctuaries, abandoned towns, remote villas, city parks, merchant districts, even a version of the Park District of Stormwind City as it might look repaired (this was before Blizzard turned it into the Legion memorial).

ESO players can buy every single house in the game for their characters if they want.

Talk to anyone who had played Wildstar and what are they likely to be the most positive and enthusiastic about? The housing.

It's not impossible for SE to do the same thing if they chose. Players have been trained to think it's impossible so they don't ask.

Back on topic - SE told us 2 years ago that they want to set the system up so alts are automatically made tenants of houses owned by characters on the same account and world. They also said there are technological hurdles in the way of making it happen. What are those hurdles? They didn't specify.

What has been their progress since then? They've been silent, a bad sign.

I would assume the hurdles are not being able to friend our alts (which is really stupid) and a character must be on your friends list to be made a tenant. It could also be the tenant limit. We're allowed 3 tenants. I have 3 friends with characters that are already tenants in my house and 4 alts in addition to my main. What happens if SE tries to add my alts? Do my friends get removed? Does the system randomly pick 3 of my alts to be the tenants and the 4 gets left out?

And of course this leaves me thinking once again about RIFT Dimensions where I could friend my alts and set permissions to my housing based on a variety of factors. Access to enter, access to change things, access to all players, access only to friends, access only to a list of specific players I added...

I enjoy housing with my MMOs because it helps with creating a living world and adds to immersion but the system here is frustrating because so much potential is lost due to the restrictive systems in place.

[worldofneil]

I would assume the hurdles are not being able to friend our alts

Well it's probably not this. There have been two different times where it was possible for someone to friend their own alts and both times SE patched it very quickly (hours the first time back in 2013/2014 and a few days back in about 2017). As far as I know they didn't remove the alt friends of anyone who did this, so it suggests it's not a technical issue.

It may or may not be related to retainer sales, it may be some attempt to block RMT bots (although the common understanding is they create FCs and use the company chest anyway), I don't know. But whatever the reason(s), they don't want us friending our alts even though it seems it is possible.

[Luna-M]

Inconvenience for us, just cause of RMT. :/

[Jojoya]

Inconvenience for us, just cause of RMT. :/

More like inconvenience for us because people like to cheat.

RMT exists because there are no cheat codes to make players wealthy in multi-player games like single player games have. Remove RMT and the cheaters turn to other methods like bots (not all bots are RMT bots).

[Eoko]

I would assume the hurdles are not being able to friend our alts (which is really stupid) and a character must be on your friends list to be made a tenant. It could also be the tenant limit. We're allowed 3 tenants. I have 3 friends with characters that are already tenants in my house and 4 alts in addition to my main. What happens if SE tries to add my alts? Do my friends get removed? Does the system randomly pick 3 of my alts to be the tenants and the 4 gets left out?

This is the part that really confuses me as well. The game knows when you are on an alt of a character that has a house, so there is clearly a game flag that the account has a personal house. I am guessing it must be a more general sort of flag so that it's not actually attached to the specific house, thus not being able to automatically associate the alt to said house.

I feel like it would be easy enough to automatically add all alt characters to Friends, or a totally separate list, and then disable the ability to use Moogle Mail in the same way the game flags alts in relation to owning a house. Two characters are on the same world? No mail. Because you know that would kill Retainer purchases. Of course it's clearly not "easy" but with regard to what we already have in the game, it doesn't seem like the most complicated thing in the world. But we're also over here going ????? on why we don't have more egi-glams as well. So either it's a priority thing, or they have a bigger revamp of something planned down the line and it's easier to wait until then rather than going in now and doing stuff with the systems twice.