I'm not paying $15 a month just to lose the lottery every time

[Allmightpool]

Join date 20222, c'mon man. Why people need to post for clout points.

[Striker44]

Join date 20222, c'mon man. Why people need to post for clout points.

Just want to point out I'm not sure how "join date" works, but it's not necessarily when the person started playing the game. I think it might be when they officially started using the forums or something. My date shows as Jan. 2022 but I've had this account since May 2015 as an example.

[Motav]

Join date 20222, c'mon man. Why people need to post for clout points.

Clout points? What would I even do with those? Can I trade them in somewhere? Is this forum so popular that I can "go viral" or something? Am I gonna be a household name because of this thread? I'M NOT READY TO BE AN INTERNET SENSATION I'M TOO OLD AND MY HAIR IS THINNING OUT NOW I'LL NEVER CUT IT!

I posted this thread to complain about a system I've grown to hate. Because it sucks. IT SUCKS SO MUCH. That's why. I've played since like late Stormblood. I just never had a reason to throw a fit on the official forum until this morning.

[ShantiiElorei]

Just want to point out I'm not sure how "join date" works, but it's not necessarily when the person started playing the game. I think it might be when they officially started using the forums or something. My date shows as Jan. 2022 but I've had this account since May 2015 as an example.

Yeah I've been playing for a while but literally just joined the forums today, because I too am frustrated about this issue.

[hagare]

yeah okay sure

[rainichan]

If you know where to find some real high quality void, perfect for screaming into, let me know.

https://screamintothevoid.com/ comes with a scream and everything when you send your thoughts into the void!

Someone had the idea to make housing more of a communal setting and we got stuck with it. If you could convince every home owner to go along with a full scrap and rework, we'd have something more like those other games.

Fun fact, LOTRO's housing is neighbourhoods just like FFXIV. The only difference is that when one fills up, another one is automatically created. The downsides are that you have limited housing hooks and you can't place stuff freely, much less than what we have currently in our housing. SWTOR is instanced housing with a lot more space for things, which is nice. You can invite friends over as well by opening it up iirc; I haven't done much with the SWTOR housing yet beyond somehow get enough credits to get something lol.

For the record, the housing hooks (and what decorations look like outside of the decor placement menu) look like this. I have a small house, and our guild has a large house, both are limited in what you can do, and the descriptions of everything are visible, even when you can't use them - the only things usable are the kegs. Pros and Cons to both sides! FFXI has had instanced housing since the servers opened, everyone gets a Mog House upon creating a character where you can change jobs. They all are one size with two floors (smaller than a small in XIV) + upstairs porch and access to the Mog Garden from the house. I think the opening of the house was during Chains of Promathia or Aht Urgahn, and it was "make a party and invite them to your house" lol. Housing items were used for item storage because XI's inventory was sooooo bad - 30 slots total until you did quests to gain an additional 50 slots. They added more things that you could drop items into, but before it was just your bag, storage (which you can't access anywhere in the world and you have to be in your house to do so) and... that was it.

Anyway, I would love the idea if they could keep the current housing but just keep creating wards when one filled. I don't think they can because of how they programmed things and they'd need more server space to keep the current amount of housing items outside for each house size, but hopefully when they're able to upgrade the housing servers, they can do something like this or every other even-numbered patch add like, 5 more wards or something.

[Raim]

Thats easy in a game with 1/100th the population of XIV.

[Amelimie]

I see these threads all the time, get an apartment and a fc room, is a lot you can do with them, and one day you might get lucky on house its what i did for years. Gardening also isn't as fun or good for gil as some people think.

[Kolsykol]

housing is overrated

Maybe I've just been lucky, but every FC I've been in have had a house.
I've never felt the need to have one myself because of that.

[Puksi]

TESO housing makes FFXIV housing look terrible, too. Blended into actual game zones, not wards, you can buy every house in the game, each one is a unique structure, and a lot of the big houses are more legit like towns. Friends can visit, furniture can be floated and rotated any which way without shelf-floating tricks, furniture cap doubles when you are subbed, but doesn't penalize you when you are not. And they never demo.