[Salt thread] Owning a House Offically became Dead content for me

[AngelCheese77]

I gave up on owning a house years ago. I had one that a "friend" gave me money for that turned quite sour. All I'll say about that.

I'm happy with an apartment. It isn't huge, but I can make an amazing War Room in there!

[Oizen]

I don't understand why you want a house with island sanctuary's available? I have a mansion and a level 65 workshop and I spend most of my time on the island. If I had to choose between the two I'd pick the island.

I really can't figure out what people like about this content. You walk to a node and right click it.
There is nothing else, its all there is to the Island. Right click resources, right click animals, right click plants.

Once you build everything theres really nothing to see or do. Nor is there a reason to visit somoene elses completely identical island.

[Remolia]

so things are kinda stuck as they are.

It does not matter anyway, just "adding some salt".
Housing system is designed to force player to pay the sub, or else u gonna loose all ur housing progress.
And my fantasies with own FC wards, where friends can place houses next to each other will be a fantasy.

Game has a lot of other issues like clunky chat, awful friend list functionality, small datacenters (with long queues), laggy marcos and etc. And housing only somewhere on middle of the list, to fix it now.

[Padudu]

I love threads like these lol. It only comes down two ways every time.

The "All you guys can think about is me, me, me. I and everyone who enjoys housing as it is don't want to see it changed because of sore losers. Maybe unsub if all all that's enjoyable to you is housing. You should just get an apartment and deal with it if you don't want to unsub."

vs

"All you guys can think about is me, me, me. I and everyone else who also can't get a house feels blocked and gated by content that should be accessible to everyone. Everyone who has a house and doesn't want instanced housing/more wards/whatever is an elitist snob who likes looking down on other people."

[RyuDragnier]

I really can't figure out what people like about this content. You walk to a node and right click it.
There is nothing else, its all there is to the Island. Right click resources, right click animals, right click plants.

Once you build everything theres really nothing to see or do. Nor is there a reason to visit somoene elses completely identical island.

For those who have had houses for a while, housing is actually pretty boring. Not much to do with it, while Island Sanctuary has a few things people have wanted for housing that makes it more interesting and fun. Plus the fact that you can actually queue up for a duty, and exit INSIDE the place helps. A lot of people would probably use their houses more if they could queue up for a duty and leave the duty to find themselves back in their own houses.

[Remolia]

I love threads like these lol. It only comes down two ways every time.

The "All you guys can think about is me, me, me. I and everyone who enjoys housing as it is don't want to see it changed because of sore losers. Maybe unsub if all all that's enjoyable to you is housing. You should just get an apartment and deal with it if you don't want to unsub."

vs

"All you guys can think about is me, me, me. I and everyone else who also can't get a house feel blocked and gated by content that should be accessible to everyone. Everyone who has a house and doesn't want instanced housing/more wards/whatever is an elitist snob who likes looking down on other people."

people complain about it coz it has serious problems, not like "- nuuh its boring! - nuuuh its good!"

[Raoabolic]

I love threads like these lol. It only comes down two ways every time.

The "All you guys can think about is me, me, me. I and everyone who enjoys housing as it is don't want to see it changed because of sore losers. Maybe unsub if all all that's enjoyable to you is housing. You should just get an apartment and deal with it if you don't want to unsub."

vs

"All you guys can think about is me, me, me. I and everyone else who also can't get a house feel blocked and gated by content that should be accessible to everyone. Everyone who has a house and doesn't want instanced housing/more wards/whatever is an elitist snob who likes looking down on other people."

You forgot the last group.
"Wait, they locked crossbreeding to housing only? They also locked FC workshops to housing only? lol, what are you doing SE?"

[SturmChurro]

For those who have had houses for a while, housing is actually pretty boring. Not much to do with it, while Island Sanctuary has a few things people have wanted for housing that makes it more interesting and fun. Plus the fact that you can actually queue up for a duty, and exit INSIDE the place helps. A lot of people would probably use their houses more if they could queue up for a duty and leave the duty to find themselves back in their own houses.

That would be me since I also have a mender right there. The one big thing I'd want for housing, aside from that, would be having a glamour dresser available to place.

I've heard lots of good things about ESO housing. I also remember Rift housing quite fondly. SOLO had some insane options like flipping things around freely and creating a completely free layout of walls, floor tiles, roofs, levels but was mostly limited to chinese style.
Of all the games I've played, FFXIV has the most limited housing both in terms of availability and design freedom.

Yeah, it's really good, if you are willing to spend hundreds of dollars worth of premium currency on your house (or houses), decor, lootboxes, your paid subscription, etc. Unless that has changed since I last played.

[Pablomaldito]

Since the inception of the Housing Lottery, i lost every time and now on my Home world Shiva there is no Housing Plot Left as of Yesterdays Drawing(as far as i looked).

Since they dont do Demolitions anymore there wont be freed up plots from inactive players occupying plots making it mpossible to be able to own a House.
FC Rooms or Apartment is not a Sufficient alternative, i had the faint hope island sanctuary maybe we can have a house to ones liking but its static Buildings.

Please add more wards.

Thank you,

I see that you are in Shiva. I would strongly urge you to move to Alpha or Raiden. Those two new servers are on your datacenter, so you will not be cut off from your old homeworld. You will be guaranteed a house - there are over 1400 personal houses still available on each of those servers, and many more FC houses. You can still keep in touch with your friends. You can still send them tells seamlessly, and you can form a cross world linkshell for group chat. Duty finder will work just as well for you as on your old server, since it will be selecting from the same pool of players. Again, I strongly urge you to consider moving to these servers. You will be making the least sacrifice for a guaranteed house.

Any new servers added beyond these will be on a new datacenter. If you wait for those, then you will be facing a more drastic move which will more significantly cut you off from your old community. You will sometimes suffer long duty finder queues due to the low population of the young data center. You may see item availability/price issues in the marketboard. Yes, you can still use datacenter visit to see your friends in Shiva, but it's not the same as just being able to talk to them directly and then visit by clicking on an aetheryte. Do not miss the amazing chance that you have right now.

[Padudu]

You forgot the last group.
"Wait, they locked crossbreeding to housing only? They also locked FC workshops to housing only? lol, what are you doing SE?"

There's so much I could've put for both sides lol but then my post would rival pretty close to the declaration of independence

people complain about it coz it has serious problems, not like "- nuuh its boring! - nuuuh its good!"

Lmao you should see the first page of the thread where someone literally says "the wards DO serve a purpose, it makes me, my friends, and the other house owners happy!" whilst calling non-homeowners salty and bitter bcoz they don't have a house in a "perfectly fine" system. I didn't just pull those opinions out of nowhere lol.