Personal Housing Complaint Thread

[TheRogueX]

I normally just peruse the forums to see what's being said, but I'll add my 2 gil on this seeing as it was a feature I was really looking forward to. Out of 13 years of MMOs, I saw two early games pull off housing (in my opinion) quite well. Star Wars Galaxies and EverQuest 2.

Add Lord of the Rings Online to that list. It even has an almost identical 'Ward' structure, and even has guild housing in the same wards as personal housing... but they were separate and it WORKS FLAWLESSLY. Housing is easy, relatively inexpensive, and fun. Houses were shared across all of your characters, too, so you just needed ONE.

[Tiggy]

They did it exactly how I expected them to. No anger from my corner.

[Fated]

This seething, soul crushing disappointment seems refreshingly unanimous...

You'd think so, but it's not. I love a good lynching though.

[Aylis]

My only question is considering FC and personal housing share the same ward is will the devs stick to their guns about the future thought of if a FC doesn't access a house in 35 days the house and land goes poof? If that's the case oh I wonder if all the people that said "its totally okay if an FC loses their home coz of inactivity due to breaks or what not BUT DON'T TOUCH MY PERSONAL HOUSE IF I TAKE A BREAK!!!" will be singing the same song of praise and agreement to this now that were all in the same wards.

[silentwindfr]

i will only say one thing:
5000-6000 player per server... seriously SE even if you double the actual number of land it will never be enough for everybody!
maybe i'm paranoid, but why wildstar and game like this one can offer housing for every person on the server... when SE seems to have trouble with them server?

1) they have low cost server barely enough for a big mmorpg.
2) they are limited by something else, understand here the limitation of the console (what i doubt, but i will not get ride of this idea)
3) or both...

now it's the time to stop doing nothing good and work on true server able to support fully ff14, it's really important. and if it's not this but the ps3 memory limitation that affect this (what it's possible even if it's maybe push a bit too much) it's time to think about drop the ps3 support fast. PC player deserve to have a decent mmorpg experience!

[Erudain]

Even when I could afford up to a medium house in a cheap plot, I don't like being lied to.
You guy specificaly told personal housing would be cheaper than FC housing so I'm not gonna drop all my gamelife savings for this.

Also having FCs and individuals fight for the same land?...way to bond the community...

[Fhenrys]

WTF personal housing....not enough place for everyone and the price...wow

I'm a casual player, I just do dungeon/raid. I don't have time to do money with DoL or DoH. Event with the half price in 30 day, I won't be able to buy a house.

I'm starting to think about leaving FFXIV for an other MMO....any suggestion ?

[Stormfeather]

At this point, I'm to the point where I'm really hesitant to go for ANYTHING Squarenix right out the gate. It seems like their current business model is:

1) Put something out without really thinking it through
2) Have everyone be disappointed and complain about it, possibly causing a failure of the thing
3) Go back and change things up, make extra profit on it.

We've seen it with the FFXIII games, which I've heard from many people were much better in the latter games, but I can't get through FFXIII to find out for myself. We saw it with the original launch of FXIV. Now we're seeing it with some parts of this game. The original FC housing prices. Player housing. The original release of the Hunts that were skewed and that they're still slowly fixing. Even the FATE system that they keep shoving down our throats, despite their implementation of the system being badly flawed and annoying.

Personally I'm just getting worn down. -_- I won't stop playing altogether, but it looks like my short break to play Destiny will probably extend a bit longer, with me barely logging on here again, rather than me being on a lot to tweak out my house and care for my gardens, like I'd planned.

Oh, and that's another huge separate issue: we were relying on private housing to take the burdens off our FC gardens since they've overloaded THOSE so horribly. So much for that idea: I wouldn't be at all surprised if NO ONE in our FC was able to get a residential plot of their own, at least this go-round. Which means at least another month of limping along, trying to grow everything plus the kitchen sink for our members in just our two FC plots.

[CYoung187]

I have had my own personal FC house for a long time now so this patch doesn't really mean anything to me. Still this is just plain lazy and dumb. It's like they completely forgot about all the outrage that came with the intro to FC housing, except many times worse because you expect individuals to afford this. There is nothing new and exciting, just here let us remove the having to be in FC restriction. Just lazy. I want this game to succeed, but pissing in off a large amount of the playerbase out of pure incompetence if disheartening. Makes it difficult to be excited for any other upcoming content.

[AliceKaye]

I have to admit absolute and utter disappointment with their lack of foresight and poor judgement. As a role-player, housing is important to me, and though there are many who will not care/it will not effect, there are many more who were truly looking forward to this feature of the game, myself included.

Myself and my fellow FC-mates have just moved here from WildStar (where housing came with the whole package) and we knew we would need to scrape and save for a Free Company house and all of the benefits that affords us as a role-play group and Free Company alike. It's taken us several weeks to even amass the 575,000 gil we have in the bank (many of us are still low) and we were hoping beyond hope that we would be able to afford a FC House in October, but judging by our lack of gil-raising and how quick these houses are now going to go being that they're both FC & Personal, we are so... so totally screwed.

Not to mention, that if they had been around the 850k gil mark, many of us maybe would have just bought our own personal houses, enjoyed those, while we continued to try to scrape and save for our FC house and now that idea is also shot to the wind.

It's a damn shame. What a poor, poor choice.