Housing Plot Instanced

[Jojoya]

The issue is...everyone got greedy. Everyone with fcs want mediums or lqrges so lots of smalls tend to be open.

Why should a player who wants a large have to settle for a small when other players were able to get larges?

Why is the one who couldn't get what they wanted the "greedy" player while those who got what they want aren't?

Anyone who's been hanging around this subforum long enough knows how I enjoyed RIFT Dimensions. Dozens of different Dimensions to choose from, decorate them as you want. If everyone wanted Castle Fortune, everyone could get Castle Fortune. It was just a matter of participating in one of the seasonal events. If someone didn't want Castle Fortune, they could get a different Dimension.

It wasn't the location that a player got that made them standout. It was what they did with the location. You could visit the Castle Fortunes of 10 different players and have 10 different experiences. Many times, you'd have to struggle to name the Dimension you were visiting because what players did made them so very different from the default look.

That is the problem with the ward system versus an instanced system. With the ward system, the number of a certain location is limited. With an instanced system, it isn't.

Players that are able to get what they want are far happier than those who have to settle for the leftover scraps others ignored. Why is that a bad thing?

And I’m sure someone will say “well go play ESO then.”

Some don't understand that as much as we love housing, we love the game itself for many other reasons as well.

Why don't I go back to RIFT? Because the rest of the game is best summed up as mediocre (not to mention Trion got bought out by a greedy company using it as a cash grab now so most of the players have left, which makes the auction house dead and pretty much forces people to rely on the cash shop to purchase items). Outside of the housing system, there was nothing that would really grab your interest.

A know that a few are going to jump in here and say "but we like FFXIV because of the way housing is right now". I get that. I understand you don't want the wards taken away and very few are asking for that to happen. What we're asking SE to do is add to the system, not overwrite what already exists. They can co-exist. Apartments tell us that much.