They should pause houses demolition for a time

[Isala]

FFXIV is literally one of the only holdouts clinging to a dated system that hasn't worked for years.

XIV in a nutshell, if you think about it. It took them over a decade to create a blacklist system that STILL isn't anywhere near as effective as the blacklists in other decade old games. Their glamour system is literally the worst in the genre, when WoW's system absolutely obliterates it, and even SWTOR's method of using armor as shells to put in your raw stats is still better. Their net code is still abysmal. Their "trust system" was done better 20 years ago in FFXI of all things.

Literally the only thing XIV could say they did better than other MMOs on the market was their story, and well... *gestures angrily at Dawntrail's MSQ*

They even lose to XI in terms of their job system. XI's job system is extremely rewarding to level multiple jobs and turn them into a character all your own. Here, they had to abandon their Cross Class system, because putting in effort to fix it was harder than just obliterating it.

It's really pathetic seeing a decade of decisions stack on each other like this, especially after all the promises they've been making us for years that they had to backpedal on. Demolition is a huge one. But we were also promised that housing for individuals would be separate from FCs, and look at how that turned out. They told us they'd work on Viera and Hrothgar, and they're still a dumpster fire. They're even halfassing other races now. Chopping off Miqo'te and Au'ra tails, removing the ears from Elezen and Lalafell.

The only comparison I can make to putting in this amount of minimal effort into something that literally prints money, is the practices of EA... And that's a TERRIBLE comparison to be making.

[BokoToloko]

At the very least, stop putting a 1 month grace period for item retrieval. I would rest a lot easier about auto-demolition (I own a small house). And drop the timer on small houses, because there still are a lot of small houses that haven't been bought and, while I'm happy with my small Mist house, I can see why people wouldn't want to waste millions of gil on a house very limited in item capacity that is still subject to demolition timer. There is no sense in putting the timer on a type of house that's still available for people who want it.

Imagine paying a monthly subscription to a game you're (currently) not enjoying just to keep your virtual house.

Do you guys not have any self respect or something?

Not everyone is planning to stop playing the game indefinitely and most would prefer if their houses remain there when they return. Specially if it's a house in high demand and high scarcity (which is pretty much all M and L houses). And it's not necessary to be subbed every month. With proper timing, you can keep the house for almost 4 mounts with one month.

[ElHeggunte]

As someone who actually owns a house, I'm personally glad for the demolition timer. The only thing I wish is that it were an even 60 or 90 days so it aligned with pay periods instead of it being 45 days. It would be amazing if you didn't have to maintain a sub at all to maintain a house, but if you guys have been around long enough to remember the before times, in the long-long ago, you'd know why that doesn't work with the current way the wards are designed.

They really should just bite the bullet and put us on instanced housing since the original purpose of the wards died a long time ago, but it is what it is I guess.

[Raven2014]

They'll never have instanced housing because with the ward system, every occupied plot is an almost guaranteed resub to prevent the auto-demolition.

Engagement metrics, baby!

While I won't discount this conjecture, I personally won't really subscribe to this kind of cynical view either. I've been here since the beginning of the housing system and I will say at worst, this is just an example of the road to hell is paved with good intention.

They did start out trying with new idea, to create something special that no other MMO had tried before. But that idea didn't take off as well as they hope, so they tried to fixes by making another mistake that turned out worse in the long run, and another mistake follow .etc. So the current system is an accumulation of honest mistake that has become too big to fail and too expensive to remade

[CNitsah]

They didn't pause house demolition when people could not pay with their credit/debit cards because "there still was prepaid card/crysta/amazon pay", so they won't for that.

[localareanetwork]

Wish me luck guys

[Striker44]

I feel like I didn't have fun with FF14 since a long time now. EW post-expansion content, and more recently Dawntrail, felt very bland to me.

Really? We're at the point of "they should pause housing demolition because the particular current content feels bland to me"? *Shakes head in disbelief*

Until they set back higher standards for the content that is released, I would love them to pause the housing demolition.

Again, this is confusing personal opinions with objective facts. Personally, I am still very satisfied with the content being released and feel it's maintaining a high standard.

But until we reach that point, I really feel like I could need a break, to expel that disappointing content from my mind and also to show my dissatisfaction. I know I'm far from being alone in that position.

There were ~1.1 million active players before the release of "early access," meaning the current population is probably significantly higher than that. You could take any position in existence on this game and you will be "far from alone" on it just by virtue of basic statistics. For example, I'm really enjoying DT so far, and I can just as confidently say I know I'm far from alone in that regard, too.

Seems weird to me they don't pause housing demolition around when new expansions release.

New expansion releases are when there's a population spike. That would mean it makes the least sense to pause housing demolitions then. You have the most people potentially looking for plots and the least number of plot-owners likely not being actively subbed. Why would you pause it then?

That they make it a limited resource when every other game out there has mastered the art of instanced housing for a decade

WoW called. They want to know when this system was slipped into their game without their knowledge. (aka the biggest MMO ever made has not even done instanced housing)

house demolition should only start once every plot is taken anyway. on my servers theres tons and tons of empty plots available. yet we still have demolition.

This...I could get behind. When the argument for housing demolition is predicated on making sure there is a supply available for active players, it doesn't make sense for it to still be active when there is already plenty of land available for active players.

[Isala]

WoW called. They want to know when this system was slipped into their game without their knowledge. (aka the biggest MMO ever made has not even done instanced housing)

Outside of XIV's level of furniture, that's literally what a Garrison is. It even has features like the Auctioneer and Mailbox, which is what people wish Island Sanctuary had.

[Themarvin]

PLay the game or lose the house, it is fair and square and no one should hold up spots, just because they dont want to be a part of the game.. and that is that.... housing is mostly for those that stick trhough, those Patch and Expansion gamers is not a part of the the equation.

[Striker44]

Outside of XIV's level of furniture, that's literally what a Garrison is. It even has features like the Auctioneer and Mailbox, which is what people wish Island Sanctuary had.

I was there for the garrisons in WoW. They were anything but "mastering the art" of doing instanced housing. There was practically no customization outside of very specific unique preset things you could select, and people just sat in them while waiting to queue for things. I'm not sure how practical it would be to search things back in time, but if you check out what people were saying about garrisons, it was that it wasn't anything like actual housing that players had been clamoring for. FFXIV itself allows you to do almost infinitely more with their houses, while garrisons would be the equivalent of IS in terms of what you could actually do with them.