Tell me again why we can't have instanced housing?

[Angellos]

It's really common for people in this community to speak with authority about the inner workings of a company they're not a part of, to others who are just as blind on the topic as they are. Sometimes they'll base their conjecture off of some old interview that was loosely translated from Japanese to English, and even then it'll be an old interview so who knows how the situation's changed at this point. It's so tiresome. Like, no offense to those people, but when I ask why we can't have instanced housing I'm not looking for an explanation from ForumBrowser69 who's just as blind as the rest of us. Ideally these threads would put pressure on Square to make an official statement. Of course, that implies they even read these forums, which they probably do not.

You realize some of the people here DO work in the industry, right? Some of us went to college for Game Design? Some of us are programmers? You shouldn't assume that everyone on the forums are the equivalent of Billy Bob smearing Cheetos on his tank-top in his parent's basement.

[Zorander01]

You act as though this is impossible, or some huge undertaking that will take years. Instanced housing wouldn't take much more hardware than their current bloated Ward system takes.

Step 1: Bolster the instanced housing servers. (There's been a huge influx in profit due to WoW players joining the game. Don't tell me the money doesn't exist.)
Step 2: Give everyone who currently owns a home a housing voucher for the appropriate sized home.
Step 3: Get rid of all the wards and have just one housing district.
Step 4: Players click on the placard outside of the house to purchase the home.
Step 5: Players click on the placard and 'Go to Your House' to enter. (Or go to someone else's house from a list, like apartments.)

PRO'S:

Massive gil sink for players, which means a much needed time sink that every MMORPG depends upon for player retention.
Devs could introduce special housing on the Mogstation for cash. (Default homes will still be available for just gil) Special homes could be: Amaurot themed, Crystarium themed, Garlemald themed, pirate ships, air ships, The Ragnarok, etc.) This would drive profits through the roof. Huge boon for the company.
You don't have to see your neighbor's ugly walls.
Most wards are devoid of players other than at the market board: You will still have the market board. Nothing changes.

CON'S:
Work by the Devs
Cost of upgrading current hardware. (A cost that is being covered by the huge amount of additional profit being made now with the huge influx of new players.)

There is absolutely ZERO REASON to NOT instance housing. Other multi-player games are coming out all the time. I do not believe for a second that SE can't get additional servers for instanced housing when small indie companies can get their hands on the same hardware. There's still a supply chain shortage, yes: But it's still obtainable.

Case in Point New World EVERYONE has a house or is able to buy 4 houses!

[VictorTheed]

Cause Harambe

[Shibi]

You realize some of the people here DO work in the industry, right? Some of us went to college for Game Design? Some of us are programmers? You shouldn't assume that everyone on the forums are the equivalent of Billy Bob smearing Cheetos on his tank-top in his parent's basement.

Although some of us have and do work in the industry, I think she was saying "I want to ask for instanced housing, and am tired of Billy Bob telling me why it can't happen".

...when I ask why we can't have instanced housing I'm not looking for an explanation from ForumBrowser69 who's just as blind as the rest of us. Ideally these threads would put pressure on Square to make an official statement.

Which lines up with you

Instanced housing needs to happen. I'd rather have instanced housing than the sanctuary if I'm being honest.

[Darthgummibear]

Except that we know that the current housing is built across multiple servers, and we know that Islands are not going to be 'housing'. From what we've learned (which is very little) you will not be able to put a single housing item on your Island. It isn't built for that purpose. I anticipate something very close to the Garrisons from Warlords of Draenor in World of Warcraft.

So, you can rant and rave all you want, but if you want something like the current housing, it is dependent on limited infrastructure.

A complete change in that architecture will be required to provide everyone with what you wish for as "instanced housing". And that is going to take time and future infrastructure purchases to assure the 5-15+ million players who want to be able to leave the game and come back 5 years later that their house is still available.

This is a completely bunk argument. The island sanctuaries already have multiple functions and systems NOT PRESENT IN HOUSING. Defending a deliberate choice to omit instanced housing when they obviously could have done it by now at best positions you as the perfect customer.

[Netaie]

You realize some of the people here DO work in the industry, right? Some of us went to college for Game Design? Some of us are programmers? You shouldn't assume that everyone on the forums are the equivalent of Billy Bob smearing Cheetos on his tank-top in his parent's basement.

I worked in the industry for over two decades and if you work too you know how difficult big changes can be. Even more for a game like FFXIV and its chaotic development history. We can only make assumption and wait for a more transparent communication from SE about housing.

We must continue to explain to SE our frustration with the current housing system and hope for a change in their priority list

[Zorander01]

We must continue to explain to SE our frustration with the current housing system and hope for a change in their priority list

true but they had 12 years to resolve this it has been an issue since housing was introduced.

[Netaie]

true but they had 12 years to resolve this it has been an issue since housing was introduced.

As I said in another post, I don't think that housing is in the top part of their priority list sadly. So they maintain some kind of status quo with small fixes / improvement because they know that they only can fix the problem with a big investment and huge resources allocation. They must consider that it does not worth it currently. I hope it will change in a near future

[Jojoya]

true but they had 12 years to resolve this it has been an issue since housing was introduced.

The game hasn't been around that long. Housing was introduced in patch 2.1 (Dec 2013).

It wasn't originally a problem because allowing personal housing other than FC rooms hadn't been included in the original design though they announced they would add it in response to player feedback.

There have been periods in the game's history when getting a house wasn't a problem (unless you played on Balmung). But the last time we had such a period was 2018. The player base has increased rapidly since then and the increase to demand has outpaced the increase to supply.

Obviously the current situation needs a solution but I wanted to correct your belief that SE should have corrected this 12 years ago.

[Zorander01]

The game hasn't been around that long. Housing was introduced in patch 2.1 (Dec 2013).

It wasn't originally a problem because allowing personal housing other than FC rooms hadn't been included in the original design though they announced they would add it in response to player feedback.

There have been periods in the game's history when getting a house wasn't a problem (unless you played on Balmung). But the last time we had such a period was 2018. The player base has increased rapidly since then and the increase to demand has outpaced the increase to supply.

Obviously the current situation needs a solution but I wanted to correct your belief that SE should have corrected this 12 years ago.

Games was released back in September 2010.