So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[PaalHenrik]

Unpopular opinion: Turn auto-demo back on and there will be a ton of freed up houses. Not to be harsh but really, how many players are there in the Ukraine and would they care more that their virtual house auto-demoed than their real house?

[LianaThorne]

Unpopular opinion: Turn auto-demo back on and there will be a ton of freed up houses. Not to be harsh but really, how many players are there in the Ukraine and would they care more that their virtual house auto-demoed than their real house?

This doesn't fix the problem.

What happens *after* those houses are taken again? You're still left with thousands of players who can't get a home.

Instanced housing is the only solution.

[Reinha]

This doesn't fix the problem.

What happens *after* those houses are taken again? You're still left with thousands of players who can't get a home.

It fixes it for the people who get a plot. I've been enjoying my house for a couple of years and it was a demolished plot. Turning on auto-demo doesn't mean we can't also get instanced housing one day.

[Moonlite]

This doesn't fix the problem.

What happens *after* those houses are taken again? You're still left with thousands of players who can't get a home.

Instanced housing is the only solution.

Actually if they ever got the MB retainer fixed and cross world or region. They could create housing worlds. Or even whole housing data centres. Would take some stress off the home worlds. But any solution requires one thing, money. And clearly we aren't big enough whales feeding SE to get that.

No one in FFXIV is entitled to a home, yet everyone thinks they are. Everyone also thinks they are entitled to a large or a medium at the least, which is why so many smalls were left with 0 bids when the entry periods ended. Those could have been easily picked up by anyone willing to settle on a small during earlier entry periods, and I'm quite sure a select few players realizing this swooped one up without a second thought.

tl;dr? I strongly suggest coming to terms with the fact that housing is finite. I don't say this to be a jerk, I say it for your own well-being for crying out loud. This is not the kind of thing to stress over. Seriously.

Who made you the voice that decides who is entitled and not entitled. Shocked pikachu face isn't enough to say how shocked I am, some random player deciding who isn't entitled. This should be clearly addressed in a LL if that is how SE feels about its players.

[Jojoya]

Unpopular opinion: Turn auto-demo back on and there will be a ton of freed up houses.

It's not an unpopular opinion. It's actually a very popular one.

Unfortunately, it's an opinion rooted in fantasy and not reality.

We've never seen "tons of freed-up houses" after auto-demolition has resumed in the past. What we see is players returning to the game to reset the demolition timers on their houses with maybe a couple of dozen houses becoming available 6 weeks later.

Demolition does more to keep players active so they keep their house than it does to return plots to the available supply so other players get a chance to own a house. That's not to say the demolition doesn't need to be resumed at some point.

But it's not going to turn out to be the solution you seem to think it is.

[Sairys]

Unpopular opinion: Turn auto-demo back on and there will be a ton of freed up houses. Not to be harsh but really, how many players are there in the Ukraine and would they care more that their virtual house auto-demoed than their real house?

You really just need to look at OCE, the wards are filling up and there doesn't look like there's enough space and this is with entirely fresh wards. Auto-demo wouldn't be as good as that so yeah...

[PaalHenrik]

Those wards have been opened up for months and a lot of NA people who were previously on EU servers (they thought it was the land of plenty) are taking up the spots there.