The last time housing wards were added to FFXIV was Jan 2023...

[Catwho]

I have an alt on Goblin in a free company that has been desperately trying to get a house for almost a year now. Last week, there were three houses up for a bid. We had about 20 of the bids out of 60.

We lost again this week.

TURN HOUSING DEMOLITION OFF ALREADY

Edit: Old Sharlayan is the most likely spot for the next housing area. The section east of the city has an NPC who says they are building houses back there.

[Rin_Sato]

TURN HOUSING DEMOLITION OFF ALREADY

You mean on?

[Nana_Bear]

Again, it's not enough to just slap in more wards (though we DO need more wards).

SE needs to bite the bullet and create a new type of housing ward that eliminates many of the problems in the old ones: namely, that plots are "set" to a specific house size and item slot limits. Proof? There's still smalls going begging on Dynamis, because a lot of people want a Med or Lg, for various reasons (but including item-slot limits).

Make new wards, with say 20 houses per, where all the plots are current Large-house sized and with at least that many slots. Pricing could vary a bit based solely on location.

Once someone wins the lottery for a plot, give them the option of *what size house to buy build permit for* (and option to upgrade or downgrade later, if they want). Smaller number of houses per ward (20 instead of 30 for front, and same for subdivision), ought to lessen server load of more people having more outdoor yard item slots.

Introduce this with whatever new housing location they're putting in, and then add same kind of neighborhoods to older cities' housing. Eventually they might be able to phase out the older housing ward design entirely, but that would mean offering some kind of guaranteed relocation for current owners, which could be a headache. Regardless, they NEED to update neighborhoods with a new design that offers the features above from the get-go: it would help a lot with issues of "a couple hundred people trying for a large or medium, while smalls sit empty," etc. And it would make a whole lot of players VERY happy to have a CHOICE in what size house, and to start off with the biggest yard (and slots) to begin with.

[Nero-Voidstails]

let us be able to make a house on our island it would save alot of time not gonna lie just find a way to have people visite it. other then party,friend and FC then it would be fine

[CCheshire]

Friends, I have good news that the NA demo timer is on again.

[Musashidon]

Friends, I have good news that the NA demo timer is on again.

not yet its next month on the 6th but yes good news for those who have been wanting it turned back on just got to hope nothing happens in the next month for it to be turned off immediately like last time in january.

[Reimmi]

Friends, I have good news that the NA demo timer is on again.

More like bad news
this thing should be gone forever with actual fixes to the housing system, holding your home hostage for your sub is a terrible business practice

[Doki]

not yet its next month on the 6th but yes good news for those who have been wanting it turned back on just got to hope nothing happens in the next month for it to be turned off immediately like last time in january.

THIS. We're just about in to hurricane season in a month so wouldn't surprise me much.

[TakoyakiLala]

Devs also need to hard limit the ownership of houses to just ONE character per account. The fact that a single player can own an entire ward is ridiculous and has been a major issue for a decade now!

[CCheshire]

Devs also need to hard limit the ownership of houses to just ONE character per account. The fact that a single player can own an entire ward is ridiculous and has been a major issue for a decade now!

TBF, they have more than 1 account to buy an entire ward and are probably paying subs for each one, so SE doesn't care at all.