Why a New Housing Sytem Would Benefit

[Graveyardprincess]

housing demolition was specifically added because players got mad people could quit and keep their houses.

because lets be honest for the longest time and even now they are constantly stopping the clock on it for people who can't reliably log in due to world problems and it has never been a problem to subscription amount.

I mean they could have took that time to either a. add sizes to apartments or b. go in and make island sancurty replace housing with a private slot in it lol


yes what your saying is true alone, however with other possiblitys to solve the proplem they could have done instend to make everyone happy they like nah


as the gilsink to other person not really, heres why buy the house: if something happans and ur not on so long demo and have to rebuy, alongside constantly spending on furniture/ chocobo stable cleaners etc not even counting fcs buying multiple plots for trading the items from the fc to the main fc

[ShadowyZero]

I mean they could have took that time to either a. add sizes to apartments or b. go in and make island sancurty replace housing with a private slot in it lol


yes what your saying is true alone, however with other possiblitys to solve the proplem they could have done instend to make everyone happy they like nah

i wish i could give you a better answer as to why the better options haven't been implemented but i just can't there is one of two possibilities as to why we haven't seen massive changes to player housing
1. the first case is being that they know our concerns an have seen our complaints but housing is just so low on their priority workload that by the time it is looked at they have no more allotted resources to spare an have to put it on maintenance mode til the next expansion when their resources are fully stocked up again.

2.our community reps actively hate us.. an work solely for special interests over consumer interests which would be extremely upsetting if true but given how long it takes for Yoshida to even realize players had problems with certain things in his game this may not be too much of a stretch an could be the likely culprit in which case our only choice is to go to fanfests to speak to one of three individuals: Yoshida himself(bare in mind his english is limited so he wont understand everything you say) Toshio Maruchi (global community producer) or Michael Christopher"koji" Fox :/ they would be the only ones who can make a difference an bring up our feedback in developer discussions.

they tell us all the time however to come to this forum and thats because it was designed and created to address player's concerns with various gameplay aspects they wanted to make it up to us players cause of what happened with 1.0 all those years back so we have to just hope that there is still one good developer out there among their staff who sees our concerns an can bring it up in discussions etc
but that can only happen if we're constantly persistent an keep bringing up issues or concerns so that our message is heard loudly and clearly to the point it can't be ignored.

[Kisshu]

I think the ideal system would be something akin to Black Desert's housing system. All players can buy the same house, and then it shows one instance of if it when you enter. Interacting with a plate in front of the house let you change it to another person's house-instance so you can visit other people.

This would let everyone buy a house where they wanted in a ward, and still keep the neighborhood feel for those that want it. And it could allow for people to set what houses appear around them: own house, specific house, friends' houses, FC members' houses, random, etc.

The question is if FFXIV's code could allow for something like this.

What they absolutely should do is expand apartments, letting you buy different sizes and shapes. Also for FC houses, give the option for player unlimited rooms instead of the one per member. FCs could get a toogle for 1/unlimited if they wanted to use that.

[Hasrat]

Why you will never see any significant changes to housing:

Because they cannot and will not just scrap current housing.

Just think about the backlash of announcing "we're deleting all current housing and implementing new better system."

This means they would have to both keep current system and also maintain new system.

So why double their workload when they can just... not?

[ShadowyZero]

Why you will never see any significant changes to housing:

Because they cannot and will not just scrap current housing.

Just think about the backlash of announcing "we're deleting all current housing and implementing new better system."

This means they would have to both keep current system and also maintain new system.

So why double their workload when they can just... not?

i want to point out that they build entire instanced servers for new exploring zones every expansion and they all remain live to this day regardless of how old or outdated they are on top of them adding a new inn room instance for every major city zone we get as well there is no excuses why they can't do it outside of what i state in my post above^ that housing is most likely just not a high priority on their list of tasks.. even tho we'd all like it to be cause the old system just isn't cutting it or doing it for most people.
so its not that they will delete the old system in order to facilitate a new one its that they'd have to sacrifice something on their task list with a higher priority which may mean delays in like releasing an ultimate for example or delays in releasing a content patch on time.which they know would greatly upset some people but when it comes to expansions that come after concurrent though they can easily make it happen then or even when we reach the end of an expansion's lifecycle for example they have ample time to implement it then after the initial planning for the next expansion has concluded etc.

[ACE135]

Imagine they do instanced housing and keep the 45 day demolition timer to free up server space of non used houses.