Time to Restart Housing Demolition

[Eraden]

Are they? Name three people with FFXIV accounts and an FFXIV house that are currently being prevented from logging on and visiting their house by the war in the Ukraine. I'll wait.

This reminds me of the white "BLM activists" who were trashing Black-owned businesses, assaulting Black police officers, and enacting policies that led to higher crime rates in Black neighborhoods.

We need a term for this use by "activists" of other people's tragedies to advance the activists' personal agenda -- an agenda that the real victims may either not give a damn about or even be opposed to. "Victimhood appropriation" perhaps?

It's not "empathy," it's exploitation, and it should disgust us all.

You completely ignored the second part of my post. The part where I said that houses freed up by turning demolition back on, would be a negligible input compared to the total demand. I would like to repeat once more, just in case you had accidentally missed that second part, the only way to fix this problem and make adequate housing available to all players is to make a LOT more wards or better apartments or instanced houses or some combination of the three. There is no other way of solving this issue so that all players get a house. Pinning hopes on the smattering of houses that would be freed up by turning demolition back on, is a fool's game at best.

[Silverbane]

You completely ignored the second part of my post. The part where I said that houses freed up by turning demolition back on, would be a negligible input compared to the total demand.

That's because a previous post on that subject, by another poster, which post showed the number of houses reclaimed the last time housing reclamation was turned back on, proves you wrong.

It's a post dominated by a big picture showing the number of houses demolished on each world, so it shouldn't be hard for you to find.

[Eraden]

That's because a previous post on that subject, by another poster, which post showed the number of houses reclaimed the last time housing reclamation was turned back on, proves you wrong.

It's a post dominated by a big picture showing the number of houses demolished on each world, so it shouldn't be hard for you to find.

There are not thousands of houses that would be released if demolition was reinstated. On my world alone, that is how many would be required to fill demand. I simply do not understand how you can be so obtuse about this. You merely have to look at the number of participants in the Lottery to realize that if every single house was demolished, ALL of them, demand would still probably not be met.

[Silverbane]

There are not thousands of houses that would be released if demolition was reinstated.

On what basis do you claim this? What's the source of your information?
You obviously didn't read the post I mentioned (which is in this thread) because according to it, there were indeed thousands of houses released the last time housing reclamation was un-paused.

[Eraden]

On what basis do you claim this? What's the source of your information?
You obviously didn't read the post I mentioned (which is in this thread) because according to it, there were indeed thousands of houses released the last time housing reclamation was un-paused.

I saw that post. On my world there was only 250 houses released. Still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of Lottery entries that were made when Ishgard was opened up. I ran around checking all of the wards in each city while I was looking for a house and was astounded by the number of bids being placed. Some as high as 100-200 on a single plot. I saw one at around 260. While I didn't bother to get an exact tally, I am pretty sure that the total numbers easily exceeded 2000. Again, I reiterate, the only real solution to this problem is to make more and better housing. Your canibalistic attitude will only serve to divert SE's attention from the real solution.

[Elevin]

I saw that post. On my world there was only 250 houses released. Still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of Lottery entries that were made when Ishgard was opened up. I ran around checking all of the wards in each city while I was looking for a house and was astounded by the number of bids being placed. Some as high as 100-200 on a single plot. I saw one at around 260. While I didn't bother to get an exact tally, I am pretty sure that the total numbers easily exceeded 2000. Again, I reiterate, the only real solution to this problem is to make more and better housing. Your canibalistic attitude will only serve to divert SE's attention from the real solution.

Late to the party, on my world most smalls had 4-5 bids on them. Only the mediums and larges had 10 or more bids.

Even freeing up 200 houses from (ex) players with auto demo is 200 houses available to people actually playing the game. Having a turn over of houses means that people that are genuinely interested in housing and still playing the game may eventually be able to get a house. Especially if/when more wards are added. Having an active turn over with tens of thousands of houses will mean there will always be a supply of housing.

It certainly won't fix the issue on higher populated realms (hence why new realms and DCs are being added) but on lower population realms like mine, it will go a long way to solving the housing crisis.