Why is housing even being released

[Cid_Grim]

Oh look, a housing thread...

[Durthane]

Oh look, a housing thread...

Oh look, someone making a pointless post to complain about someone posting an observation and request for clarification.

On topic, they admitted they don't have the hardware and hope the player base are silly enough to swallow their other excuses after the fact. SE have never been up front with the players and I don't know why I ever expected this bunch of devs to be any different. They'll make up whatever excuses they can right up till the players are in open revolt and the game starts to see revenue drop before they try and be open about their bad decisions.

I love SE's games, not so much in recent years but I know they have a knack for these things you don't get from many other companies. They are also kings of screwing up for hair brained reasoning. The players just need to jump up and down on their heads till it gets through em that you don't release half finished content and damn sure not before you have the infrastructure in place to provide your product to folks that have payed you for it already.

[Daarksoul]

Oh look, someone making a pointless post to complain about someone posting an observation and request for clarification.

On topic, they admitted they don't have the hardware and hope the player base are silly enough to swallow their other excuses after the fact. SE have never been up front with the players and I don't know why I ever expected this bunch of devs to be any different. They'll make up whatever excuses they can right up till the players are in open revolt and the game starts to see revenue drop before they try and be open about their bad decisions.

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And what exactly is the point of this post?

[Durthane]

And what exactly is the point of this post?

More or less saying SE released it before it was ready because to do otherwise would be to admit mistake and lose face. That or they intend housing to stay the realm of the few. Which I don't think is the case, at least I hope not.

Off topic, it occurs to me that with the moghouse system of FFXI they had an individual instance for every single player didn't they? Or is there a reason the servers of FFXIV can't handle a much smaller number of larger instances?

[Tinker]

More or less saying SE released it before it was ready because to do otherwise would be to admit mistake and lose face. That or they intend housing to stay the realm of the few. Which I don't think is the case, at least I hope not.

SE Loose face? Hah, They've effectively managed to fling their own crap into their face. Even gaming websites are now picking up on the outrageous prices. I'm from a guild with ~40 active members. Since we have a couple crafters who actually enjoy playing the market, we've managed to put away ~8 mil since the initial announcement.

The funny thing is that this really won't remove gill from the servers (apart from the few rich idiots who acidentaly hit the purchase button). As the housing is not attainable during a reasonable time frame, with reasonable effort most of the other guilds I've talked to have come to the same conclusion....

Basically, "f**k that, I'm keeping our gil for ourselves!"

[Cid_Grim]

Oh look, someone making a pointless post to complain about someone posting an observation and request for clarification.

On topic, blah blah blah....

Oh my bad.

On topic, you can post this in one of the 3,000 other housing threads.