Housing next please.

[Mykll]

I was surprised Yoshi came out and said he wanted to try to do something better with housing against the bots and RMTs. Instead of general handwave everything is fine we will do better. Hopefully they can do something against bots and RMTs without hurting real players, but damned if I know what that could be. Except adding capabilities to apartments.

[Nabiri]

If I could have a large house + yard on my own personal island, I would immediately move out of my medium in a neighbourhood and free up that spot for someone who loves the neighborhoods.

[Ilyrian]

They would be gone in 5 minutes

When the Shirogane lots opened I think it was actually less than 5 minutes >.<

[Eldevern]

If private islance could be housing too that would be nice. Never mind if there is no neighborood and if it could be evolutive, that would be fantastic.

[Dzian]

So say 50 houses get freed up on your server. They would be gone in 5 minutes (if we ignore the rng timer for sake of argument).
So 50 players out of 100s or 1000s on your server could have a house but there will still be a huge demand and little supply.

The housing is there. a lot of the issues are caused by the playerbase and the fact everyone wants to be on balmung or whatever. there's servers around that have literally hundreds of vacant plots. a housing thread came up some time ago and someone put a video up of them runningaround various wards on there servers and they were literal ghost towns...

and even on some of the more popular servers. Sarg? theres plenty of accomodation available. my apartment complex has 11 tenants so there's a good 79 appartments available there.. and I havent even gone around checking every other ward and sub dividsion. but the accomodation is there and available.

All they need to do is tack on an allotment of some form and a workshop facility and you've solved a lot of the problems.Fixing tenancy so players could actually share accomondation properly would be a nice bonus.

[StriderShinryu]

Just putting it out there, but I highly doubt that the art and character modelling teams that worked on male viera have anything at all to do with the developers that would work on restructuring the housing system.

[LianaThorne]

If I could have a large house + yard on my own personal island, I would immediately move out of my medium in a neighbourhood and free up that spot for someone who loves the neighborhoods.

If they give away larges for cheap/free...oh my god I can't wait to see the riots over that.

[Haru304]

Wonder what would happen if they multiplied the price of houses by around ten. If they're not as affordable, people won't feel pressure to house camp!

In all seriousness, system isn't perfect but my player house which I had a very hard time getting is one of the few things in the game I feel has a sense of value.

[Blackwing_Soul]

I am seriously hoping they do something with the instanced islands. I don't want neighbors or neighborhoods. I want my own instanced private plot of land on which to build anything and everything my twisted little black heart desires. Basically, I want Wildstar-level freedom of creativity housing in FFXIV.

[Missbone]

Wonder what would happen if they multiplied the price of houses by around ten. If they're not as affordable, people won't feel pressure to house camp!

In all seriousness, system isn't perfect but my player house which I had a very hard time getting is one of the few things in the game I feel has a sense of value.

I would vote for that if the plot and house wouldn't have a demolished timer that gets rids of everything once you didnt visit it for more than a month. I would have no issue with paying 50 or even 100m for a small plot if i had the guarantee that i will keep it forever like its usual in nearly every other mmo with housing.