If housing isn’t instanced…

[Condygurl]

So everyone keeps saying housing isn’t instanced. However, each ward is its own instance. Hence, why is there a shortage of housing?

I pay for my sub plus extra retainers, there should never be the risk of losing a subscribers house at all. As long as subs are paid houses should remain in their owners hands.

Likewise if you own a house and stop subscribing then the house should be put up if no activity for 30 days.

These are things that are in many other games. Joint housing between parties. Alt characters on a single account having the same rights to the house as the main character on account does. All simple fixes that really should be in the game.

Let’s face it one of the draws to FFXIV is the entire housing aspect for many players. And if they can never hope to own a home of their own or need to be afraid of losing it should they go on holiday, it takes a big chunk away from their ability to enjoy the game in its fullest.

As for the current fiasco…it wasn’t planned out correctly. I do not know where they got their numbers but there are more free company houses than there are free companies, at least on Mateus. 3/4 of each ward from 1-18 are vacant in Empyreum, with new vacancies from FC’s that moved from other areas now vacant and for FC only. Meanwhile,every ward that is for personal housing is full other than those vacated due to owners moving to Ishgard. There really is no way for a single player to own their own house due to the current setting split on housing. I’d be curious to know if others are seeing the same thing on their servers.

The math simply doesn’t add up. And I for one spent more time clicking against bots than playing prior to patch 6.1 and I thought I would at least have an honest chance in a lottery. But with 200 entires for most plots it was a sign that it wasn’t going to happen.

And don’t even get me started on the content for 6.1… because I actually spent more time watching Yoshi talk about the patch than it took me to complete it watching all the cutscenes. And that to me was a disappointment even before the housing nightmare.

[SilverSp]

they cant do it because of server limitations theres 25 million service accounts approximately but there isnt total of 25 million plots it wont happen and they will never solve the issue. Watch for the next update saying "thank you for your patience as we continue to do Nothing about anything , we apologize as we continue to NOT solve housing problem "

[Corvus_V]

they cant do it because of server limitations theres 25 million service accounts approximately but there isnt total of 25 million plots it wont happen and they will never solve the issue. Watch for the next update saying "thank you for your patience as we continue to do Nothing about anything , we apologize as we continue to NOT solve housing problem "

They can. Stop saying that they cant. Theyll say they cant do alot of things. They absolutely can. It is not the same as hosting "25 million plots". You are assuming all of those people will be online, all at once, all in a house, all the time. If it can handle the current housing system, it can handle instanced housing.

The grief here is not necessary. Enough. People seriously need to stop acting like 25 million subscribers if thats even an accurate metric, is somehow causing them to not break even on FFXIV. Absolute nonsense.

[Illmaeran]

So everyone keeps saying housing isn’t instanced. However, each ward is its own instance. Hence, why is there a shortage of housing?

I was thinking about this yesterday. Given the number of assets in each ward required to be persistently displayed, they're effectively a hub city. Now take the server resources required by a hub city and multiply it by 48(?). We've got a minimum of 240 hub city sized areas set aside for housing. I can only imagine that requiring a significant amount of space/processing power.

[EthanXdeath]

They absolutely botched it with this lottery. Famfrit in the Ishgard housing area there are at least 16 larges unoccupied whether its because of the "0 bug" or because no one wanted them, doesn't matter. The smalls are all unoccupied 100% in those FC only wards. Just tells me that smalls are not popular and no one wants them not even FC's. There are 2 solutions either nuke the current housing system and give us instanced houses or give us more wards and split it 25% for FC's and 75% for privates. We should have 50 wards, minimum, as I've seen some people suggest 30 wards at a 50/50 split, but I already know that won't be enough.

Then there's the entire but "island sanctuary" is gonna be instanced housing. NEWS FLASH IT WON'T BE. They've literally told us it won't and that it's meant to be for gardening and letting your minions roam around. no one asked for this. They continue to sweep the issues of housing under the rug and they'll continue to do this.

[Oizen]

Its ok you can just try to get a house again in 5 years when they add a new ward that will fill up in a singular cycle.

[Masenko]

There is no such thing as "no one wanted" large houses.
It's definitely the 0 bug.

[Insignation]

SE: There sure seems to be a lot of Free Companies, lets dedicated a ton of space to FC housing, cause- communities and neighborhoods!

Reality: Most of these Free Companies are 3-4 people who wanted the buffs or as shells to buy and sell houses using RMT. Whoopsie doodles, at least there's nothing wrong with the lottery system; right?


Thank you for your patience.

[Themarvin]

Players who don't know better, instanced housing is the worst... this comes from one who has had the best.. in Star Wars Galaxies houses could be place just about anywhere in the wild, and you could have player cities with mayor election and more things attached to it, and no plot sizes... whatever area had decided if you could place your house here or there or whatever.

[Oizen]

Players who don't know better, instanced housing is the worst... this comes from one who has had the best.. in Star Wars Galaxies houses could be place just about anywhere in the wild, and you could have player cities with mayor election and more things attached to it, and no plot sizes... whatever area had decided if you could place your house here or there or whatever.

Strong disagree there. Plenty of games have had very enjoyable instanced housing systems.

If anything I think FFXIV is a great example of a completely lack luster neighborhood system.