Please more housing wards soon. And no more FC/Private Hybrid.

[Seraphor]

(Literal empty houses only held and undecorated as status symbols, not to mention the large amount of completely untouched smalls in FC only wards.)

What someone else does with their house is their business.
While it would be nice if everyone decorated their house and garden and opened it up, you can't make them anymore than someone else can come along and tell you how to decorate your house.
(So in this analogy, they are not empty seats, they are very much occupied, you're just choosing to not acknowledge them as real people)


Obviously moving to a different DC is easier said than done. Everyone has reasons to stay. But that doesn't change the fact that Someone has to move over.
Someone has to take that hit, because there isn't enough room for all of you on that plane. The servers are at capacity, regardless of the state of housing wards, that's just the first sign of it, the canary if you will.

If you have a group of friends or a small FC, try convincing everyone to make that move together.
Otherwise stay put, and deal with a lack of housing plots and congested servers, with 6-12 hour log in queues once 7.0 launches, and hope that someone else moves instead.

There's no other solution. Somebody has to make the move. You can't all fit.

They keep throwing more housing wards at the game every six months or so, but that's a bandaid fix, and it doesn't solve the cause of the problem which is overpopulated servers.
Each server now has 9,000 housing plots, which doesn't meet the demands of an average server population of 20,000. On the other hand, each server has 27,000 Apartments, most of which are sitting vacant because it vastly exceeds server population. They're not just going to keep throwing more housing wards indefinitely, it creates far too many superfluous Apartment slots, and it just enables players to overload servers.
You say you've been trying to get a house since 2.4. I've had three since 4.3, that's why you move to a less populated server.

As far as housing goes, what they really need to do is open up those 27,000 Apartments. Turn them into instanced houses by way of an Apartment Upgrade system. Giving Apartment owners more space to decorate, and less need for a house plot.
But while that might take strain off the ward system, it won't do anything to help incentivise players moving off the congested worlds.

[Reinha]

The DC travel does not solve the major issues of DC travel time, the absolute impossibility of trying to convince someone on Crystal to come to Dynamis to see my house to RP, Inability to be in a FC on my home server of almost a decade and the fact that you are asking me to toss away almost a seven years of history and RP storylines in my FC to just get something that should be baseline for every player who wants it. A small house. SMALL. Not large, not medium. Not in a specific ward or district. Any District, Any Ward, Any Plot. Instanced or not.

When Balmung was closed for an extended period of time, balmungians themselves were begging to open it back up so more new players, returning players and friends could join the server. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/350299

Had it stayed locked until now, you would have a house and a normal server population.

[Yuniko]

We should move Balmung to the OCE Datacenter. Enough Houses for everyone and their grandma.

And I thought RPers were more creative when it comes to creating background stories for the Characters.
You could be on an expedition, the ship sunk and you are stranded on Dynamis or for the Balmongian ERPs you
could be abducted to Dynamis. So many possibilities to take advantage of the new Houses if they really wanted.

Go eat a cucumber.

[Yuniko]

When Balmung was closed for an extended period of time, balmungians themselves were begging to open it back up so more new players, returning players and friends could join the server. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/350299

Had it stayed locked until now, you would have a house and a normal server population.

yep.. but idigigress. We prob won't see more housing stuff til 7.0

[Yuniko]

I still think it's a tragedy that they still allow people to just FC hog with MULTIPLE alts and accounts

[Jojoya]

I still think it's a tragedy that they still allow people to just FC hog with MULTIPLE alts and accounts

Multiple accounts isn't a problem. The player is paying the additional fee to get the additional access, and the game itself has no way of knowing the additional account is not owner by a separate individual.

The tragedy is that SE is not creating a housing supply that allows every account acquire the same housing assets. There is nothing else in the game that you are prevented from acquiring specific because X number of players already own the X number of those items available in the game. If one service account is able to get 20 houses, then every service account should be able to get 20 houses. The supply for that to happen just does not exist.

[Yuniko]

Multiple accounts isn't a problem. The player is paying the additional fee to get the additional access, and the game itself has no way of knowing the additional account is not owner by a separate individual.

The tragedy is that SE is not creating a housing supply that allows every account acquire the same housing assets. There is nothing else in the game that you are prevented from acquiring specific because X number of players already own the X number of those items available in the game. If one service account is able to get 20 houses, then every service account should be able to get 20 houses. The supply for that to happen just does not exist.

Very well said. And so true. We'll just have to wait and see.

[Yodada]

Go eat a cucumber.

But only hand grown ones. Wanna share some from your garden patch? Oh wait Balmung, there was something about not leaving I remember. You can use my patches on the Mansion (only 1 Bid btw) I won on Dynamis to grow some if you still want to share a few with me.

[Yuniko]

Hope things and SE can work on this garbage system for houses...

[CatStarwind]

Very well said. And so true. We'll just have to wait and see.

The only problem are those service accounts with multiple plots in a single World.