You're not supposed to stay up all night clicking to buy a fake house in a game..

[Themarvin]

They getting new houses in 6.0 due to they most likely am going to add in a couple of more servers per DC, so move there if ned one, also in 6.1 there will be +8 more wards on each server due to Ishgaard housing.

[Jojoya]

They getting new houses in 6.0 due to they most likely am going to add in a couple of more servers per DC, so move there if ned one, also in 6.1 there will be +8 more wards on each server due to Ishgaard housing.

Nothing was said about adding more worlds to any data centers.

Nothing was said about increasing the number of wards.

All they said was that Ishgard housing would open in 6.1 and they plan for it to have the same number of wards as existing housing districts. That means 1440 more houses per world.

Now we can hope that new worlds and additional wards would will also be getting added but I wouldn't count on it. That showcase would have been the perfect time to say something to indicate they're taking the housing problem seriously and have been actively working on solutions. Instead we get told something we've known since NA FanFest in 2018 - that Ishgard housing would be coming.

That it's become a 3 year wait for them to repeat the same mistake that do nothing to solve the problem feels like a hard troll of the player base.

[Kuroka]

At some point, you have to decide what is more important: your medical well-being or obtaining a virtual house in a video game.

No it should not get to that decision....


Well in the end its not really affecting me, as said before i got my private and fc house, but it hurts me for all my fc memebers and friends who try to get one.

[Themarvin]

Nothing was said about adding more worlds to any data centers.

Nothing was said about increasing the number of wards.

All they said was that Ishgard housing would open in 6.1 and they plan for it to have the same number of wards as existing housing districts. That means 1440 more houses per world.

Now we can hope that new worlds and additional wards would will also be getting added but I wouldn't count on it. That showcase would have been the perfect time to say something to indicate they're taking the housing problem seriously and have been actively working on solutions. Instead we get told something we've known since NA FanFest in 2018 - that Ishgard housing would be coming.

That it's become a 3 year wait for them to repeat the same mistake that do nothing to solve the problem feels like a hard troll of the player base.

With Ishgaard housing you would get at least 18 more wards on all servers.

[Tommara]

I'm pretty much not interested in FF14 housing. It just pales in comparison to Everquest2 housing in every respect, except as a status symbol for non-instanced housing.

To be clear, I do love having housing EQ2 style, I'm just not interested in the PvP style housing as implemented in FF14 for non-instanced housing. The benefits just don't seem worth the hassle.

I haven't played EQ2 for years, but the last time I logged in, everything was still there, including our guild hall (just had to pay the next month's rent to access it), which provides much more benefit than anything I've seen in FF14. Such as being able to dump crafting resources you don't need in unlimited quantities for other guild members to use.

Obviously, that's not a good reason to play EQ2, since I'm playing FF14 now. Just one of my reasons for not being excited over FF14's housing.

And I have learned something from reading this thread - there may be benefits to apartments beyond decorating (because if that interested me, I'd still be playing EQ2).

[CoffeeBuns]

I have read a couple posts and I just want to clarify a few things about players saying "Just get an apartment". I have one and it sucks! Here's why:

- I am married and cannot share my apartment with him... WHY THE FUCK!!!??
- I can't garden which is something I would really like to actually enjoy one day.
- It's so bloody small !!!

ESO has housing and yet EVERYONE can get one. It's bloody ridiculous. I personally just bloody gave up getting one but I hate having events giving us more and more furniture that is just bloody sleeping in my retainers because I can't even use them!

[Penthea]

I have read a couple posts and I just want to clarify a few things about players saying "Just get an apartment".

They won't listen to why. I have exhausted myself by trying to make these people see that they're not a replacement for a house. Some do genuinely think they're great, but others use it as a tool to make people feel entitled for wanting a house.

I had an apartment long before I got a house. Having an apartment didn't make me want a house any less. It actually made me want a house even more. I felt very limited by the options apartments gave me. Also I know how you feel about the marriage thing. I had my apartment before my boyfriend and I lived together irl and we were so disappointed to find out that we couldn't share it. It's such a basic thing that is missing, and still is years later. Sigh.

[Zelas]

I had my apartment before my boyfriend and I lived together irl and we were so disappointed to find out that we couldn't share it. It's such a basic thing that is missing, and still is years later. Sigh.

All they did for apartments was copy and paste the Free Company personal rooms exactly as they are (including the inability to share them) and I'll never not be angry and disappointed with how lazy they were at implementing them.

They need to make them way more than they actually are if they want people to treat them like an actual alternative to housing and not just "an extra room".

[Jojoya]

I have read a couple posts and I just want to clarify a few things about players saying "Just get an apartment". I have one and it sucks! Here's why:

- I am married and cannot share my apartment with him... WHY THE FUCK!!!??
- I can't garden which is something I would really like to actually enjoy one day.
- It's so bloody small !!!

ESO has housing and yet EVERYONE can get one. It's bloody ridiculous. I personally just bloody gave up getting one but I hate having events giving us more and more furniture that is just bloody sleeping in my retainers because I can't even use them!

Should there be access to houses so every player that wants a house can get one? Yes.

Is SE doing that? No.

You can complain all you want but it's not going to change things. The same complaints have filled these forums since Heavensward. The Ishgard housing announcement at the showcase was SE's way of saying they don't care about our concerns when it comes to access to houses. They're going to stick to their failure of a ward system and that's that.

Until a miracle occurs and a house becomes available for you to purchase, apartments are your only option. You can make the best of a bad situation or you can stamp your feet in futile fury.

Since SE does not care, I suggest you try making the best of a bad situation.

Want more room? Get your husband to buy and decorate an apartment in the same building as yours. As long as he has guest access enabled, you'll be able to move directly from apartment to apartment as if they were a single house using the Exit menu. You won't be able to use any interactive objects he has but you can move back to your "floor of the house" to use yours. Between the two apartments, you'll have almost the same floor space as a small house (house basements are slightly larger than apartments).

As for gardening? Island Sanctuaries are coming. We don't know if it will be the same as the gardening we currently have in housing but there will be some form of planting and harvesting going on. Hopefully it will be 6.0 content and not 6.5 content.

Until then, get flowerpots for your apartment. You've got the trade off of being able to grow any seed in the game (garden patches can't grow the decorative flower seeds) while losing access to intercross gardening to produce your own seeds. You can use Shroud topsoil in flowerpots to get any possible increased yield if that's a goal.

Still want to try out intercross? Find a friend with a house that isn't using a garden patch and ask them to make you a tenant so you can garden there. One of my friends did that for me before I was able to get my own house. That will give you a taste of intercross gardening and you'll be able to decide if it's something you want to be doing long term once you get your own house.

[KayRadley]

I have read a couple posts and I just want to clarify a few things about players saying "Just get an apartment". I have one and it sucks! Here's why:

- I am married and cannot share my apartment with him... WHY THE FUCK!!!??
- I can't garden which is something I would really like to actually enjoy one day.
- It's so bloody small !!!

ESO has housing and yet EVERYONE can get one. It's bloody ridiculous. I personally just bloody gave up getting one but I hate having events giving us more and more furniture that is just bloody sleeping in my retainers because I can't even use them!

Then go play ESO, if housing is that bloody important to you.