Housing Scarcity is manufactured

[SilversLyu]

Yeah not gonna happen. Island Sanctuary proves that they could, but simply dont want or cant. Seeing the incentive to keep players engaged and pay their sub to not lose their house, I'd tend that they dont want to. Sure all of Island Sanctuary could stem from the basic idea that they have been building instanced housing all this time in the background, but that would lead to the point of losing money.. hmm. You never know with Squeenix. The current housing demolition system is also similar to how this game is structured, they get tons of tons of cash simply by all the passive income stream, the housing system is one way, the other one is through the patches where a lot of the playerbase actively comes back and Yoshi P telling people to go and play other games underlines their current working system (go play other games, but dont unsub), a lot of people have a reason to stay through housing alone. It's daunting how much money they make through means like this alone, but add the expansions, retainers and especially mogstation and they swim in all the money. Scrooge McDuck would turn red from all the envy.

[Absurdity]

Island Sanctuary proves that they could, but simply dont want or cant.

Yes and no. I still remember that when Island Sanctuary released it completely fried the housing interiors because both run on the same server.

So while IS proves that they can do instanced housing, I'm not so sure about it working in practice when a massive amount of players try to get into their house at the same time, which would be a lot more common if they gave fully fledged houses to everyone.

[SilversLyu]

Yes and no. I still remember that when Island Sanctuary released it completely fried the housing interiors because both run on the same server.

So while IS proves that they can do instanced housing, I'm not so sure about it working in practice when a massive amount of players try to get into their house at the same time, which would be a lot more common if they gave fully fledged houses to everyone.

I see that is definitely an issue, it reminds me how unstable this game can be at the foundation with the random log outs and latency drops.

[Koros]

Yes and no. I still remember that when Island Sanctuary released it completely fried the housing interiors because both run on the same server.

So while IS proves that they can do instanced housing, I'm not so sure about it working in practice when a massive amount of players try to get into their house at the same time, which would be a lot more common if they gave fully fledged houses to everyone.

idk sounds like they should hire better coders

[Absurdity]

idk sounds like they should hire better coders

Not really a secret that code they cobbled together during ARR's short development is coming back to bite them now.
But calling it entirely their fault isn't all that fair either, it's hard to anticipate where your game will be in 10 years and whether or not the code will hold up when the size of the game has increased and new systems are added on top of the base.

Look at WoW as a recent example when they added their first support dps spec and it completely broke the boss fights because the game was never designed for them.

On the other side you have things like XIV's completely bloated item database that was already flawed in it's inception.

[VerdeLuck]

idk sounds like they should hire better coders

They're really limiting themselves since their job postings all say you need to be familiar with a 10 year old engine, live in tokyo, and speak fluent japanese. Not too many people to hire who fit those at this point, and the people who do are not going to be the top programmers in the industry.

[Absurdity]

They're really limiting themselves since their job postings all say you need to be familiar with a 10 year old engine, live in tokyo, and speak fluent japanese. Not too many people to hire who fit those at this point, and the people who do are not going to be the top programmers in the industry.

There's probably also the issue that those who do fit their requirements can just join one of the thousands of mobile game developers, do half the work and get the same amount of pay.