Thoughts on Relocation removal

[FrogDog]

It shouldn't be a dead dream, just one more difficult to obtain. You'll still be able to enter the lottery or camp the placard for your chance along side everyone else who would like that plot.

There will never be enough housing available to meet demand, especially since this game's popularity has been skyrocketing for the past 2 years.

3 years ago on Mateus you could find several plots open at once and I got my first personal house, which was a beachfront cottage in the Mist with zero competition sometime shortly after the placard system was introduced. Now, you may find one or two plots open and they'll be camped by at least 20 people, many of which are automating the process. I would be surprised if anyone could load into a housing ward if a medium or large happened to be up for sale because there are sure to be a ton of people camping it if it's under the placard system. A lottery is more convenient but the odds are going to be even worse.

So, yes, the dream a lot of people have of upgrading their house size is going to be dead for all intents and purposes. Resellers are no doubt making a mint right now as a lot of people will be reaching that conclusion and this is their last best chance to get something.

[Jojoya]

There will never be enough housing available to meet demand, especially since this game's popularity has been skyrocketing for the past 2 years.

I agree that it will always be a problem as long as SE continues to focus on wards instead of working on an enhanced instanced system.

But that still doesn't mean that someone who really wants that medium or large won't be the lucky recipient in a lottery once that is implemented. It means that getting the medium or large during 6.0 is going to require placard camping and a bit of luck. At least you'll finally get to see those mediums and larges become available when relinquished/demolished and have a decent change. Right now that doesn't happen because the resellers using the bots are all over them within minutes.

[Arazehl]

Taking away the relocation feature has it's pro's and con's.
Relocaters swiping plot out from under the noses of first time buyers is bad. Yet for an FC who wants to upgrade to a larger size home it's going to be tough.
With all these houses turned into cafe's, pubs, casinos and yes brothels for earning gil, the demand for mediums and mansions have greatly increased.
For the first time in my ffxiv gaming carreer I was offered 300 mil gil for my FC mansion which I flatly refused.
I feel there are too many loop holes left open for players to cheat the system and SE needs to clamp down, regardless how mad people get. Especially in this one area of housing. Restrictions to what is considered an FC needs to be address. An FC is not meant for a single member and so on. The 1 FC rule needs tighened and monitored. SE needs to quit leaving so many grey areas in the system of buying plots.