Instanced Wards

[Almagnus1]

Do you honestly expect SE to operate 1000+ wards per world when the 96 currently operating already tax their resources?

That's why I'm suggesting the initial price for the ward needs to be set (at minimum) for half a billion gil. Hopefully it will help pull people out of the wards, or give someone that wants to own a ward a way to do that without screwing up the market for the rest of us.

Like it or not, there's a very good chance that every NA and EU world will be Balmung by the time Endwalker releases. All those high profile streamers abandoning WoW and coming here are showing players from other games that FFXIV isn't such a terrible "weeb" game after all. SE would be foolish not to capitalize on the one feature this game has that WoW never added despite constant requests from WoW players throughout the game's history - housing.

With Asmongold hitting Heavensward, and his YouTube content being generally positive and respective for the FFXIV MSQ... he's basically done the one thing a Japanese MMO has had difficulty doing and basically normalized FFXIV for the masses. Asmongold's Heavensward entrance video where Cactaur rolled out the red carpet for him is about the best marketing we can get for this game. Going by https://ffxivcensus.com/ , NA characters account for almost HALF of the overall characters created - so (at minimum) a South American and possibly a fourth North American datacenter are warranted, and the NA housing mess is going to get far worse before it improves - especially since SE is having a very hard time getting the hardware for a datacenter.

Realistically, I'm expecting problems with Endwalker launch that will make Raubahn and Pipin Savage look like a cake walk because we're too successful and the server hardware is too rare.

[Jojoya]

That's why I'm suggesting the initial price for the ward needs to be set (at minimum) for half a billion gil. Hopefully it will help pull people out of the wards, or give someone that wants to own a ward a way to do that without screwing up the market for the rest of us.

It will pull a handful of gil capped individuals out of the wards because they're the only ones that can afford it and they'll get to have an entire ward to themselves.

It does nothing to help FCs or their members. Legitimate FCs rarely have that sort of gil.

It does nothing to give SE the real world resources they need to increase the number of wards so more players can get a house.

It's another idea that needs to die.