Opening of housing on new worlds

[Rhea_]

I suspect SE picked the date for a specific reason, either countering issues they saw with the way OCE was handled, or some other info they have as regards bot shell FC's etc.

Will it really make a difference in the long run though?

[ErysNight]

Will it really make a difference in the long run though?

No people will complain no matter what.

SE waits for 30 days "Wah you're giving time for shell FCs to move"
SE doesn't wait for 30 days "Wah, Shell FCs are the only ones who had the foresight to think ahead and make an alt before moving over their mains"...

This will cycle endlessly.

[Driavna]

No people will complain no matter what.

SE waits for 30 days "Wah you're giving time for shell FCs to move"
SE doesn't wait for 30 days "Wah, Shell FCs are the only ones who had the foresight to think ahead and make an alt before moving over their mains"...

This will cycle endlessly.

It's going to be an interesting drama once all large and medium are gone, that's for sure.

[LaylaTsarra]

It's going to be an interesting drama once all large and medium are gone, that's for sure.

Took a lot of cycles to go on my ward on Sophia. The two other large plots finally sold with the new wave of privates allowed. There are 26 unsold plots including mediums in my subdivision ward and that's pretty typical of many of them. Other servers have tons of plots available. I don't think that will be the case in the EU which is a lot more established.

[Hasrat]

Took a lot of cycles to go on my ward on Sophia. The two other large plots finally sold with the new wave of privates allowed. There are 26 unsold plots including mediums in my subdivision ward and that's pretty typical of many of them. Other servers have tons of plots available. I don't think that will be the case in the EU which is a lot more established.

This, honestly. Doomers seem to expect these brand new data centers/worlds are already so packed with players rushing a shell FC that housing is already a done deal.

Give it a few months and players on these worlds will be complaining about long queues and dead markets, same as OCE.

[Jojoya]

Why would so called shell FC move to the new servers if they already have houses on there current server?
I think it more of a concern that they are doing this so only the FC who was created on July 5th, when the new worlds opened and not delaying the sales until a month from today, when they opened the ability for people to migrate to the new servers.

Not to mention, I don't think anyone imagined HWT being down for 2 weeks.

They wouldn't be moving their existing FCs. They would be starting new ones.

I doubt it's a problem. No one expected housing to open this fast so I don't think many if any had rushed to make shell FCs that first week.

This, honestly. Doomers seem to expect these brand new data centers/worlds are already so packed with players rushing a shell FC that housing is already a done deal.

Give it a few months and players on these worlds will be complaining about long queues and dead markets, same as OCE.

Except these worlds were added to existing data centers. Queue times will be what they're already used to.

The dead markets will depend on how many of those who transfer to the new worlds make use of things like arbitrage to fill up the marketboards with cheap items from the other worlds. Not many players make use of world visit let alone data center travel to shop for the best price. Players willing to take the time to "import" items for sale could get the new marketboards filled in short order.

[Rhea_]

No people will complain no matter what.

SE waits for 30 days "Wah you're giving time for shell FCs to move"
SE doesn't wait for 30 days "Wah, Shell FCs are the only ones who had the foresight to think ahead and make an alt before moving over their mains"...

This will cycle endlessly.

Why would so called shell FC move to the new servers if they already have houses on there current server?
I think it more of a concern that they are doing this so only the FC who was created on July 5th, when the new worlds opened and not delaying the sales until a month from today, when they opened the ability for people to migrate to the new servers.

Not to mention, I don't think anyone imagined HWT being down for 2 weeks.

[Moonlite]

Just a new log to throw into the fire pit that is housing.



But wouldn't it make sense before a server opens to clarify. "We will open server July 5th housing cycle will begin July 20th." or maybe "We would like a fresh start on housing for our new server. Transfers locked until 50% of plots are taken by newly created characters. Limiting the amount of bots claiming housing. We will also be using this as a chance to review gil circulation."


SE needs a real PR//community team. The devs should stop doing LL. This isn't the small community pre 2.0. They seem to handle everything poorly. Some of these decisions take two seconds to realize, wow this is going to make people mad.

[Rhea_]

Just a new log to throw into the fire pit that is housing.



But wouldn't it make sense before a server opens to clarify. "We will open server July 5th housing cycle will begin July 20th." or maybe "We would like a fresh start on housing for our new server. Transfers locked until 50% of plots are taken by newly created characters. Limiting the amount of bots claiming housing. We will also be using this as a chance to review gil circulation."


SE needs a real PR//community team. The devs should stop doing LL. This isn't the small community pre 2.0. They seem to handle everything poorly. Some of these decisions take two seconds to realize, wow this is going to make people mad.

I guess this is what happens when you shuffle your old good members to different projects.
For instance, we have Koji a lot to thank for when it comes to how they were communicating with us back in 1.0 days leading up to ARR.
The same can be said for Yoshida who had a lot on his plate for several years (being a board member, tackling producer and director roles for this game, and producer for FF16 which has been in development for several years at this point).

I'm sure we can make this list long.

I want however to make it clear, that I still very much enjoy the game but there have been a lot of questionable decisions lately.