Turn Housing Demolition on

[Johners]

But if we stop trying to take stuff away from people, SE might see "oh shit, they don't want housing exclusive after all" and do something.

We gotta stop suggesting that SE take stuff away from people, because they will read that, they will think it's what we want, and another 3 years will pass by.

I don't see how they fix housing without "taking something away". They could do instanced housing, for example, and have 100s of versions of each plot in one giant ward but then you'd lose the ability to walk around 24 unique districts per home world. Whatever Square Enix opt to do, there's only going to be one housing system and that ultimately means they need to accept that any development will negatively impact some players.

If they're going to keep with the ward system and have a fixed amount of housing plots per home world, fine, but at least enforce the ownership of one personal and one FC house across the entire player base to maximise the chance for everyone else. What I find rather amusing is that every time this specific discussion point comes up, the small portion of housing owners that owned multiple plots from the old ruleset immediately start writing paragraphs because they don't want to give up/lose additional plots.

I do wish, however, they'd actually just take housing seriously especially when you can go to the main FFXIV website and see housing listed as one of the game's main features. It's also a system involved with many word-of-mouth advertising points I'd hear from XIV players long before I started the game. Not just housing but also the glamour system and various RP/community events. I did pick up an FC room, number 1 actually which is cool, and the customisation options are kinda ass at times and there's some bizarre limits on what objects you can place and how you do so.

I see you missed the part where I said that starting up demolition again WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Do you have ANY idea at all just how few houses would be freed up and just how many people want houses? You could enable demolition tomorrow and your chances of getting a house would still be almost identical to what they currently are. So you wish to inconvenience people, some of whom really ARE unable to get back into the game through no fault of their own, for some perceived notion that it would make a difference in your chance to get a house? Yes, I call that CANNIBALISTIC.

Housing demolition has been disabled for over six months now which is pretty ridiculous. Even if they enabled it tomorrow, it's a 90 day timer for inactivity so it would be over 9 months of an expansion before the auto demolition even triggered once. It's a necessary evil to have this timer because it ensures inactive players, regardless of their reason, don't permanently hog a limited resource.