(Large Housing Problem) 177 Bids on One House

[Stormpeaks]

I predict that, should a large house become easy enough such everyone can get one, people will be on the forums complaining that large houses are too common and easy to get; so, they no longer feel special.

I have said this so many times, once something becomes common, people dont care anymore, just like apartments, they are just unused and no one cares about them, if you gave everyone a large, people just wouldnt care anymore, but just like with lottery back then "lottery will fix housing, it will remove multiowners, bots and people selling and finally i'll be able to get a large !!" thats what people asked for, and what people got, now we have even more bids than before and less chances to get houses.

This community literally shouldnt be listened to, at least the ones that dont care about housing, they have no clue what they are talking about, if you give Shiro 60's instanced house to everyone, S60 becomes worthless, it'll be like having a small house, and it will get ignored after a while.

Also people are already lonely enough in the game, not everyone has millions of friends, lets not put people in dead instances with nobody around them and fake houses, if you want that, play a different game, FFXIV is based on ward housing, period.

I wasn't that invested in housing around the time and i didn't know it was change brought about on the forums.(i didn't even know forums were a thing at a time). Anyway the problem with housing isn't based on it's fair distribution and how people get the houses. It's the supply and demand problem. Not even the most sophisticated system in the world designed to distribute houses would be enough for everyone interested to be satisfied, if there is not enough houses for everyone. Instanced housing was meant to solve that problem and be a new subtype of housing, not a modification to wards housing. Besides what kind of argument is that "we asked for lottery so we have to deal with it" are we to be punished for asking for unfair and bad system to be changed? Are we supposed to just accept bad housing in otherwise great game just because one small solution didn't fix all the problems?



Island Sanctuary is it's own bag of problems one of them being that there is next to nothing you can do with friends or other people. It appears it was purposefully designed to be this way, to quote "your own personal paradise". So only allowing your friend list to access your island seemed to be deliberate choice. Now i am not here to say if it's good or bad decisions but coupled that with very hands off gameplay that was heavly time gated, that's what caused island sanctuary to be left behind by many people.

Then again the introduction of outdoor furnishings brought many people back and made island more enjoyable for many. Going back to the subject one thing coming with "package" of instanced housing would have to be some alternative way of accessing houses. Perhaps as a link in chat you can share or put in adventures plate that allows you to access that persons house?

That not mentioning the fact that venues are rather smaller part of how houses are used and many would prefer to decorate houses for their own sake and fun, not caring if others will see it or not.

Then again the introduction of outdoor furnishings brought many people back and made island more enjoyable for many

In what world did people go back to the island because of outside furnitures ? People decorated it and then never went back to it again, whoa what a feat

That not mentioning the fact that venues are rather smaller part of how houses are used and many would prefer to decorate houses for their own sake and fun, not caring if others will see it or not.

Someone doesnt know anything about the nightlife, bathhouses,clubs,cafes,restaurants, amongst many others, a LOT of houses are used as venues, no matter the type, once again, if you have no clue what you are talking about, please get informed a little before you talk nonsense.