Why do FCs get 75% of the wards?

[Stormfur]

Just let those of us who have apartments add greenhouses, balconies, another floor or two and courtyards to them. Problem solved.

[RicaRuin]

I mean, context is everything. So I went and looked for the context which is apparently this, and as I thought, he used that sentence to separate what general Housing does from Island Sanctuary being different.

I simply dislike getting hopes up, and I dislike it even more when the devs are later accused of having lied, when they never did and something was just taken out of context.

I'd be down for Island Sanctuary coming with a house, but... eh, doubt.

[PMSJordan]

Can you link the full interview? Because if I remember correctly, this quote was heavily taken out of context. In one interview, Yoshi-P said that the islands will be different from Housing, and that quote really seems like the first sentence referred to Housing and the rest was to tell that Island Sanctuary will be different.

After work I will hunt it down for you. I remember the article and my screenshot of the picture was from one of the FFXIV Youtuber Quazil's videos.

[Imora]

Yoshi-P was the one who said it. So back off with your "misinformation crap"

You're taking his words as gospel.

It will not be everything you'd ever hoped it'd be. They'll have cut stuff from it to make deadlines, and it'll have less features than they wanted because the resource strain was too much.

It's not going to be an alternative to housing.

I don't even want the garden. I have two gardens I tend now. I want the HOUSE. Apartments are too friggin small.

[Haxican]

This is great for two main reasons and I will die on this hill!

1) FC housing can house many different people unlike private housing.

That's exactly why FC's shouldn't be getting most of the wards. FC houses can have 512 rooms for one single house.

512

So no, that isn't a good reason. And how many poeple do you actually see interacting with each other in wards? None.

This is a Blizzard level stupid decision and should be reworked.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Yoshi-P was the one who said it. So back off with your "misinformation crap"

You do realize that doesn't imply the system will be the same as current housing right?

For all you know, the house could be static, and the 'emphasis on the house, garden and furniture' could mean the house is static and you build it up/decorate it with pre-set upgrades, furniture and changes from a limited pool that are unlocked by doing tasks in the island sanctuary.

There's a reason Yoshi-P said to temper expectations about island sanctuary - believing its effectively instanced housing is setting yourself up for a huge disappointment if that was never its intention to be. Not to mention the sole fact they could literally induce massive hype and positivity in the community by announcing 'HEY GUYS THIS IS INSTANCED HOUSING NOW EVERYONE GETS A HOUSE' but choose to remain extremely silent should be a very large red flag the 'house' on island sanctuary will be nothing like the current system.

[Imora]

All I gotta say, is that had I known they were gonna do this, I'd have botted a placard. Better chance doing that than I do with this lottery, I'll tell ya.

Phoenix has over 110k people on it, and they think 300 houses is going to fix anything?

[Vahlnir]

All I gotta say, is that had I known they were gonna do this, I'd have botted a placard. Better chance doing that than I do with this lottery, I'll tell ya.

Phoenix has over 110k people on it, and they think 300 houses is going to fix anything?

I think we are finally at the boiling point I had hoped we could avoid for years yet. They need to show us that they can do their jobs properly or players will start walking away. Endwalker is the new Cataclysm it seems.

[xenahawk]

I appreciate the thought, but this is actually going to make this system even worse. Every single time I've lived next to an FC house, or been around the neighborhood, it's usually completely undecorated, one person FC, and also I am pretty sure a lot of people just sell FC house plots.

Fc housing is a system easily abused. Its not always the case but yeah i bet now with 3/4 of the housing being fc only it will be abused even more so.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I think we are finally at the boiling point I had hoped we could avoid for years yet. They need to show us that they can do their jobs properly or players will start walking away. Endwalker is the new Cataclysm it seems.

Not enough players are going to walk away over this to matter much. The vocal minority on the forums will still keep subscribing long after they cry, "I'm leaving". It's like this for every game.