Annnnnnd They're Gone

[Jojoya]

New people usually have a congested servers vs favoured servers as a guideline though.

Balmung isn't marked Congested any more. It's mostly been a Standard world (since mid Shadowbringers. There was a period of about a month when it was marked Congested, then a longer period when it was Preferred along with the rest of Crystal when the Aether population exploded.

It's also generally open to new character creation except during peak log in hours. When it was first moved to Standard, it was generally still closed to new character creation outside of a couple of hours a day.

It feels like a lot of the long time players don't understand the state of the NA worlds in general. We're ALL overcrowded now. It's not just Balmung.

I don't know what Balmung that person was looking at because there are not 28 open personal plots. Every single house had 200+ bids on them for personal housing.

Every apartment is gone.

People play on Balmung because there's a huge population of RP'ers there, and a decent amount of statics for raiding. New people come to Balmung because they want to play with their friends who are already established there. We lose our apartments if we move, we lose our houses if we move, we lose our FCs if we move: None of it transfers over - so why would we ever leave? The only people who don't want instanced housing are those who want to feel special because they clicked a placard the fastest, or got lucky on a lotto. Housing shouldn't be a status symbol of luck: It should be accessible to EVERYONE, equally. Just like in real life. You have to practically be rich with a perfect credit score to get a mortgage in America: I'm sick of feeling like housing is inaccessible in the game too.

I didn't say 28 personal plots. I said 24 plots and some of those were FC. I was physically on Balmung taking the count just before I posted. Were some of those plots pending a winner's claim at the time? I don't know. I was only looking at the ward listings, not the actual plots.

Here, let me go back to Balmung to list what I currently see available:

LB W15 P25
LB W21 P12

EM W9 P4
EM W3 P50
EM W5 P44
EM W7 P33

SH W18 P44
SH W24 P18

Gob W23 P 38 (medium!)

So some of the houses that were there have since been claimed. There are still some left unclaimed.

Will the unclaimed houses disappear eventually? Sure. I don't think anyone doubted that. They're disappearing on all the other NA worlds as well.

As for why people might leave Balmung? Because they don't have an apartment. They don't have a house. They don't have a FC they have close ties to. They don't have close friends playing there or those friends have the same lack so want to transfer together to a world where they can get a house, get an apartment, get a FC they care about.

I agree it shouldn't be difficult for anyone to get a house let alone an apartment. But just like real life, sometimes that means moving to go to where those things are available.

[Siniztor]

Balmung isn't marked Congested any more. It's mostly been a Standard world (since mid Shadowbringers. There was a period of about a month when it was marked Congested, then a longer period when it was Preferred along with the rest of Crystal when the Aether population exploded.

It's also generally open to new character creation except during peak log in hours. When it was first moved to Standard, it was generally still closed to new character creation outside of a couple of hours a day.

It feels like a lot of the long time players don't understand the state of the NA worlds in general. We're ALL overcrowded now. It's not just Balmung.


I didn't say 28 personal plots. I said 24 plots and some of those were FC. I was physically on Balmung taking the count just before I posted. Were some of those plots pending a winner's claim at the time? I don't know. I was only looking at the ward listings, not the actual plots.

Here, let me go back to Balmung to list what I currently see available:

LB W15 P25
LB W21 P12

EM W9 P4
EM W3 P50
EM W5 P44
EM W7 P33

SH W18 P44
SH W24 P18

Gob W23 P 38 (medium!)

So some of the houses that were there have since been claimed. There are still some left unclaimed.

Will the unclaimed houses disappear eventually? Sure. I don't think anyone doubted that. They're disappearing on all the other NA worlds as well.

As for why people might leave Balmung? Because they don't have an apartment. They don't have a house. They don't have a FC they have close ties to. They don't have close friends playing there or those friends have the same lack so want to transfer together to a world where they can get a house, get an apartment, get a FC they care about.

I agree it shouldn't be difficult for anyone to get a house let alone an apartment. But just like real life, sometimes that means moving to go to where those things are available.

I'm sure they will the lotto just got pulled yesterday i believe is when i got my money back from losing... Until the winner claims it from the Plaque/stand it reads for sale..
Id almost be sure ifthere wemty plots someone bid on them... meaning every empty plot you listed if there has a winner.... So unless they forget to claim the house by Tuesday i think... all are gone

[Tlamila]

It feels like a lot of the long time players don't understand the state of the NA worlds in general. We're ALL overcrowded now. It's not just Balmung.

If that's the case let's hope that the new incoming DC will solve som of that.

I usually read Balmung people complaining about their world's house shortage the most though, so that's a thing.

[Shuuli]

No!!!! The Server resources!!! The Community Feeling!!!! The small indie dev!!!

btw if u could buy the $160 Final Fantasy VII™ Cloud Strife Digital Deluxe NFT that be great.

If they make an NFT that allows me for a housing plot for 150, I would honestly pay for it... if the issue is money, I think there are many people who would be happy to use this.

[Siniztor]

No!!!! The Server resources!!! The Community Feeling!!!! The small indie dev!!!

btw if u could buy the $160 Final Fantasy VII™ Cloud Strife Digital Deluxe NFT that be great.

I love they buried this in on the 2nd tab you have to click

"●Warning: In case the Enjin services becomes unavailable in the future, you may lose access to the NFT digital certificate of authenticity and digital version of the figure."

LMAO what a joke

[Shibi]

Annnnnnd every house and apartment on Balmung is gone.

200-600 bids on any one plot.

Losing by less than 10 numbers after putting in 8 bids? Priceless.

Hang on though, you got a medium?

Nothing like waiting years for Ishgard housing; Getting Saint of the Firmament, spending more than 30 million gil for a house to have to stare at Shirogane walls all day because of our lovely neighbors.

[Siniztor]

Hang on though, you got a medium?

My question is how you spend more then 30mil??
Do you mean the large? If so why not say 50mil like it cost...a medium is20mil....
Did you just pull 30 mil out the air??

Edit: My reply was to Angellos on the quote

[Shibi]

My question is how you spend more then 30mil??
Do you mean the large? If so why not say 50mil like it cost...a medium is20mil....
Did you just pull 30 mil out the air??

Edit: My reply was to Angellos on the quote

I think they might be a little insincere.

I put 8 bids on a small plot last week. Didn't win it. (And there were only 20 bids total on it.)
EDIT: I lost by 3 :upsidedownsmileyface:

Losing by less than 10 numbers after putting in 8 bids? Priceless.

It looks like from these, they are keeping their personal medium and now going after a solo FC on all 8 alts.

[Siniztor]

I think they might be a little insincere.




It looks like from these, they are keeping their personal medium and now going after a solo FC on all 8 alts.

Detective work +100

Yup that be my guess... still cant figure out where $30 comes from lol

My guess is Band Aid fix 2,3467,544... All FC must earn X amount of FC credits every 2 or 3 months or lose the house.. But they wont do that due to removing a house and placing everyone's items at the pick up guy would be a strain

[Jojoya]

It looks like from these, they are keeping their personal medium and now going after a solo FC on all 8 alts.

That medium is a FC house. Could be trying to find another medium to relocate to so he can throw a temper tantrum at his new neighbors about their non-Ishgardian houses.

Detective work +100

Yup that be my guess... still cant figure out where $30 comes from lol

My guess is Band Aid fix 2,3467,544... All FC must earn X amount of FC credits every 2 or 3 months or lose the house.. But they wont do that due to removing a house and placing everyone's items at the pick up guy would be a strain

In the thread where he was complaining about the Shirogane Castle Walls, someone speculated that the other 10 million was what he spent on furnishings. Which makes sense - no way a flipper would have settled for only 30 million gil on Balmung for a medium.

I've always thought that Company Credits would be an interesting currency for FC house purchases instead of gil since legit FCs don't tend to have a lot of gil until they can start selling things produced through their house. Unfortunately, it's too easy to "buy" company credits for those abusing the system. SE would need to rework how the credits are generated (which honestly wouldn't be a bad idea).