So.. the Animal Corssing-esc. Island Sanctuaries... thoughts and wishes

[Lunalepsy]

I want lots of gardening patches!

[Nafreyu]

Actually, the more I think about this. I want to ask why they are wasting resources on instance gardening and pet zones when that could have been additional housing wards.

Either way, I shouldn't get irritated before any announcement anyway as who T F knows what's gonna happen with all this speculation.

[Skivvy]

Actually, the more I think about this. I want to ask why they are wasting resources on instance gardening and pet zones when that could have been additional housing wards.

Either way, I shouldn't get irritated before any announcement anyway as who T F knows what's gonna happen with all this speculation.

I'd personally take a basic gardening instance for everyone vs. additional wards that will only give new homes to a smidgen of the playerbase.

[Beytran70]

Actually, the more I think about this. I want to ask why they are wasting resources on instance gardening and pet zones when that could have been additional housing wards.

Either way, I shouldn't get irritated before any announcement anyway as who T F knows what's gonna happen with all this speculation.

Because apparently right now its way too difficult to just add "more" housing, although I should note Ishgard housing is also coming in 6.1 supposedly, so there will be an increase with that at least. Still just applying bandages to a bleeding wound, though, so maybe they're just hard at working trying to get a permanent solution but are offering these things to sort of placate the playerbase.

[MidnightEquinox]

I really wonder what's wrong with FFXIV's backend that they cannot do instanced housing. Even New World pulled it off for crying out loud.

[Maxilor]

I really wonder what's wrong with FFXIV's backend that they cannot do instanced housing. Even New World pulled it off for crying out loud.

Because FFXIV is 10 years old and New World released in last October.

[aveyond-dreams]

I just hope that Island Sanctuary somehow allows us to farm leathers and other enemy-drops. I have *0* hopes that this is some kind of alternative to housing and I have severe doubts as to the customization we'll even have for preset buildings.

[SeverianLyonesse]

I hope this is a pet sanctuary. I hope this entails retooling mounts and minions to be usable as companions in battle. I hope companions get rebalanced to work in casual duties like dungeons and normal raids/trials. I hope this means the death of all BST speculation because having an entire FARM of animals I can use is way better than limiting myself to a BST job.

If there's gardening too, that's fine too I guess. Fleurs.

[Skivvy]

Because FFXIV is 10 years old and New World released in last October.

The New World point wasn't the strongest, but it's not like decent housing is a brand new feature to MMOs. There are other games, created around the time of XIV, that have far better housing systems in place. XIV is just continually slapping Band-aids on their housing, and it kinda sucks.

[Maxilor]

The New World point wasn't the strongest, but it's not like decent housing is a brand new feature to MMOs. There are other games, created around the time of XIV, that have far better housing systems in place. XIV is just continually slapping Band-aids on their housing, and it kinda sucks.

Oh I agree with you. The fact that the FFXIV Dev Team has managed to make such a fantastic game on the rotten bones of 1.0 is a miracle.

An engine/infrastructure update is badly needed, but there are plenty of interviews by YoshiP of him explaining why that is out of the question.