Reality Check: Personal housing delayed to 2.35+

[Wolf_Gang]

Personal housing was promised 6 months after 2.1 but the recent news from the Yoshida paints a different picture from our dreams of owning our own land and buying a small house.

For now, we are getting personal rooms. It will function very much like FFXI:
Players will enter an instanced zone of a room that's slighty larger than a room at the inn. There, they can decorate it with furnishings.

There's no word on whether you must be in an FC with a house or if decorated rooms will also be available in the major cities (similar to residential zones in FFXI).

The actual land houses won't come til after patch 2.3, if we're lucky, 2.35

I'm personally ok with this, because housing will likely be expensive. If rooms are free to add-on, then more people will opt for personal rooms in the long run.

sources:

y; personal rooms are coming first, i’ve mentioned we’re working on both personal housing/room
y; one where you can purchase your own land/house, the dev team is first working on the personal rooms first.
y; they are both working on at same time but personal room will be released first then house after
y; in 2.3 we’re going to see how much land is going to be available

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...ZMrx2eCgQ/edit
http://lalafell.xxxblog.jp/archives/38512358.html
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201404/27052460.html

[FritoBandito]

Personal housing was promised 6 months after 2.1 but the recent news from the Yoshida paints a different picture from our dreams of owning our own land and buying a small house.

Do you have a source showing where it was PROMISED to us within that time?

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

Do you have a source showing where it was PROMISED to us within that time?

Yeah, I'd also like to know where the OP got the idea that housing was ever promised 6 months after 2.1? My memory of the issue seems to recall that it has ALWAYS been "We will have to see how it goes after Free Company housing, then we will let you know."

Please post your source before you add to the smearing going on on these forums.

[Wolf_Gang]

Yeah, I'd also like to know where the OP got the idea that housing was ever promised 6 months after 2.1? My memory of the issue seems to recall that it has ALWAYS been "We will have to see how it goes after Free Company housing, then we will let you know."

Please post your source before you add to the smearing going on on these forums.

I thought it was pretty common knowledge. I guess if you weren't following housing news since 2.0 you may not have known. I would have to look through the live letters before 2.1 to find exact quote.

People wanted Personal housing first. When Yoshi confirmed we were getting FC housing instead, he mentioned we won't get the personal one til 6 months afterwards in response to the backlash. e.g. patch 2.3

But it's a moot point. Things change, delays happen. I'm fine with the rooms, I'm just making a PSA for the people that were expecting personal houses. If you weren't expecting it, then good on you.

[HakuroDK]

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If memory serves, the "six months" thing was actually promised to be how much time it would take for the housing prices to drop to more reasonable levels from the ridiculously high 200 million gil, not how long it would be until personal housing / rooms would take to be implemented. There was never a concrete date on housing and Yoshi literally said he had to wait and see before he could have any idea when and how they could be implemented properly due to a variety of factors like server stress.

...and I really do hope the SE execs see the rave reviews Yoshi's reinvention of FFXIV has gotten and choose to contribute more funds for server optimizations, because really, Yoshida managed to save a sinking ship AND turn it into SE's financial flagship while SE was busy building more sinking ships with the XIII sub-franchise.

[Vactus]

If memory serves, the "six months" thing was actually promised to be how much time it would take for the housing prices to drop to more reasonable levels from the ridiculously high 200 million gil, not how long it would be until personal housing / rooms would take to be implemented. There was never a concrete date on housing and Yoshi literally said he had to wait and see before he could have any idea when and how they could be implemented properly due to a variety of factors like server stress.

...and I really do hope the SE execs see the rave reviews Yoshi's reinvention of FFXIV has gotten and choose to contribute more funds for server optimizations, because really, Yoshida managed to save a sinking ship AND turn it into SE's financial flagship while SE was busy building more sinking ships with the XIII sub-franchise.

2:19:20
Q: When will individual housing be implemented?
A: It will be around half a year after patch 2.1's release. Currently, we are split between implementing a personal room within a free company house or personal housing. Since the decision will have a huge impact on how many additional servers we'll need to prepare, we have to carefully consider the balance of the housing system. We believe it will take roughly six months to have everything planned out and prepared.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...810-30-2013%29

btw 3mo was referring FC housing prices dropping to their lowest amount. a quick search found this.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1685344

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

I thought it was pretty common knowledge. I guess if you weren't following housing news since 2.0 you may not have known. I would have to look through the live letters before 2.1 to find exact quote.

People wanted Personal housing first. When Yoshi confirmed we were getting FC housing instead, he mentioned we won't get the personal one til 6 months afterwards in response to the backlash. e.g. patch 2.3

But it's a moot point. Things change, delays happen. I'm fine with the rooms, I'm just making a PSA for the people that were expecting personal houses. If you weren't expecting it, then good on you.

I check every piece of news I can every morning first thing when I get to the office. I pour over everything I can since I can't play at all during the day and I don't recall this ever being the timeline for personal housing, so again, if you have a source I'd like to see it. Otherwise there are no promises being broken.

[IfritReborn]

Why is this so hard to do?!

Rift gives out housing space like candy! WildStar is giving everyone a housing instance at the very start! LotRO has this down pat! Aion has tons of instanced housing!

Why do they continue with server limitations excuse when this has been done before in other games en masse.

in 2.3 we’re going to see how much land is going to be available

Isn't that what you were doing for the last 6 months? That's what was said, "monitoring the server space". This is becoming quite aggravating

[TheUltimate3]

Why is this so hard to do?!

Why do they continue with server limitations excuse when this has been done before in other games en masse.

I like to believe what MrHappy from youtube's explaination behind it;

SE Bosses: You guys already failed once. You're lucky we're still even having XIV.

YoshiP: We need better servers.

SE Bosses: Then your predecessor should have thought about that before releasing XIV. You get what you got.

[Skyl1n3]

I really don't care if we was to just have the Inn room and customize it to our liking, an FC house is enough already and I'm hardly ever in there when outside of combat unless it's to drop off mats and maybe dump some gil into the chest.