Housing failure... Again, and a few other comments

[GomezAddams]

I just want to say that I've never been more horribly let down by a game in my life. Twice now. Once because 6.0 was just a really, really, REALLY long movie. Now, because of housing. The one freaking thing in the game I absolutely want to participate in, and you've gone and ruined it once more.

This system is even more unfair than the last one. I would rather sit around clicking a board all day than to have my name thrown in a pot with umpteen other people, and then have to wait FOR DAYS, without my money, until you award the house randomly. You've got people out there bidding on 4 or 5 medium plots right now, but you can only own ONE. You shouldn't be able to have more than one bid out at a time. THAT is fair.

You limited personal housing to only 5 out of 24 wards. I just spent an hour running through all the FC wards. Most houses have zero bids. Go to the personal ward, EVERY PLOT has over 7 bids already, regardless of size. Not to mention my girlfriend and I can't even purchase one of those unbid-on plots for our FC, because it's just the two of us, not four. That's random. How do 4 people deserve a guild house more than 2 people?

I just can't with this company anymore. It's like the twilight zone of MMOs. The decision making lately just blows from a consumer standpoint, and from a player standpoint.

Oh yeah, thanks soooo much for the shiny new crafting/gathering gear that's ridiculously hard to make and requires massive amounts of materials. Since that exact gear is the ONLY gear in the game currently that REQUIRES that gear to make, it's POINTLESS. Do you guys actually look at what your doing before, during, and after you're doing it? That's a complete circular pattern there. I've been disappointed by you for the last time, SE. It was fun, but this current attitude isn't gonna cut it for me anymore.

[Shibi]

You limited personal housing to only 5 out of 24 wards.

6 Wards : 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24

It's not just you, it's a vast number of people on the NA forums who are getting it wrong.

Not to mention my girlfriend and I can't even purchase one of those unbid-on plots for our FC, because it's just the two of us, not four. That's random. How do 4 people deserve a guild house more than 2 people?

Make an alt each.... invite each other's alts to your fc.... bid on FC house?

Additionally, once you do that, BOTH place a bid on the same property and double your chances.

[ryouma17]

houses are overrated

[Gemina]

I want to tell you to put your name in a jar, and to move on with your life. Well... I am still saying that. But I oft wonder with the shear amount of housing items placed in the seasonal events rewards pool, if the devs kinda twirl their mustaches a bit. Kind of like having a few ant colonies, and giving them limited resources just to see them destroy each other.

[Kyrj]

houses are overrated

But the sub voyages are worth it.

[Ravor]

Customer standpoint and player standpoint...... does it mean your standpoint? I mean from my standpoint its fine and i am also a customer and a player, no one can satisfy everyone, it cant satisfy you but satisfy some others enough, the hardest thing about making product is, most satisfied consumer stay happy and be quite about it while the little unsatisfied one can be totally vocal about it and justify it as the entire or most player/consumer standpoint, just make your complain and make critical argument about it, dont state it as if you represent others or even the entire or most others opinion

[Krotoan]

Interesting how bad it is before it's even resolved its first round of selection.

Not to mention they said they're keeping an eye on how it rolls out and possibly changing the distribution.


Go try for a house, see what happens.

[RitsukoSonoda]

In regards to the FC house complaint about not being able to buy because your FC is just you and your GF. One of the previous issues with acquiring a house was people using "shell" FC's that only had 1 or 2 people in it in order to claim additional housing plots with 1 character. Frequently for the purpose of reselling it to someone else for profit... you know... just like those scalpers with GPU's and PS5s were doing.

The wording I see on the lottery system says 1 entry per period. This leads me to believe that these periods or windows are set as a whole rather than per plot. If so that means 1 character can only have 1 entry active at any given time and characters with more gil to their name would not be able to run around and put an entry on every plot hoping they get pulled for 1 of them.

The thing I'd need someone to verify for me is whether or not there is anything giving indication of how many entries have been submitted for a specific plot.

[Moonfish]

In regards to the FC house complaint about not being able to buy because your FC is just you and your GF. One of the previous issues with acquiring a house was people using "shell" FC's that only had 1 or 2 people in it in order to claim additional housing plots with 1 character. Frequently for the purpose of reselling it to someone else for profit... you know... just like those scalpers with GPU's and PS5s were doing.

The wording I see on the lottery system says 1 entry per period. This leads me to believe that these periods or windows are set as a whole rather than per plot. If so that means 1 character can only have 1 entry active at any given time and characters with more gil to their name would not be able to run around and put an entry on every plot hoping they get pulled for 1 of them.

The thing I'd need someone to verify for me is whether or not there is anything giving indication of how many entries have been submitted for a specific plot.

The placard says how many entries there are.

[texas_boy]

I know it's the 1st day for putting down deposits, but currently I'm *very* surprised at how few people are actually doing so. I found a small plot in an out of the way area and currently it's just me and one other person who have put down a deposit. Fully expected to have hundreds, so at least at this point the odds are ever in our favor... We'll see how it progresses over the next couple of days, but am cautiously optimistic that the chances of getting a house will be higher than anticipated. Beats the heck out of going up against bots and spending hours mindlessly clicking on a placard.