Personal Housing Complaint Thread

[Genaxx]

I usually just lurk these forums but I felt like I should also say that this was a big disappointment, not because its too expensive, but because it was so poorly executed and shows little effort. I'm sure there's many lurkers who feel the same as we all do.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

I am highly disappointed in this. All SE did was open the option to purchase a house individually instead of having to be in a free company to do it... Price are ridiculous for personal housing. It's the same as Free Company costs, how is that fair?? And seeing as though I'm on a world that has a high amount of gil in circulation, I'm having to pay an arm, a leg, my first born child and possibly my second born too...

I realize many have already said the same thing, I'm just adding my voice to the masses of how disappointing this is...

What happened to personal housing prices differing from FC housing? Wasn't this supposed to be much more affordable? Seriously, wtf...

[Phenidate]

Housing didn't need to be as complete as a whole house dangit. We've taken a whole step backwards from moghousing here people. Instead of housing for each player we now only have a small percentage of the player base being served by extremely expensive FC houses they buy for themselves.

This is something players could do already, with a bit of extra work. They just cut out twinking an FC to get the housing permit. It's literally a cut/paste job with requirements cut for one rich players to beat out other FCs that have been working towards a house.

[Qaaliaa]

My problem with all this is that on servers like Balmung there are many FCs without a house, even still. And those "personal houses" are shutting out FCs and, in turn, HUNDREDS of people from even a room in a FC house.

If server/resource space is so precious, this was the biggest waste of it ever created.

[AnaviAnael]

As AliceKaye and Qaaliaa have mentioned, I don't think SE realized how many FCs got screwed over by this patch.

Also, when they do release more wards, don't they realize the exact same thing will happen? Patch will go live, ten minutes later all the small plots are gone.

[AliceKaye]

As AliceKaye and Qaaliaa have mentioned, I don't think SE realized how many FCs got screwed over by this patch.

Also, when they do release more wards, don't they realize the exact same thing will happen? Patch will go live, ten minutes later all the small plots are gone.

Honestly, I don't think it's a lack of realization as to what will happen when they're full. I think the lack of realization is how many people will/have been interested in this feature. I think it's a lack of caring about it to begin with. But what they seem to forget is that we hold their company in our hands. We pay our monthly payments and we're the ones who buy their stock. When FFXIV 1.0 tanked, they felt that.That's why they did everything in their power to (i.e. starting completely over) in order to save face. I'm not saying that housing is anywhere near as detrimental as 1.0 was, but what I am saying is, if they continuously screw over their paying clients (us), people will begin to speak with their wallets and they're going to stop paying for lies.

Usually I just roll with the punches. They make their decisions and I do what I can with them. This time, I have an entire group of people who are going to be furious and disappointed and I am going to have to deal with them and their unrest at the situation, and it isn't even my decision in this matter.

They really need to retract this, rethink it and improve on this. All of these, 'sincerest apology' messages I've seen from Yoshida since this went live make me so angry. If you're so sorry, fix the damn problem.

[Phenidate]

Lets not forget folks, that they didn't need to add additional servers to handle our personal housing. Just have the new Mog Apartments replace our Inn rooms!

[Phenidate]

Apparently the JP can't even log in right now.

[SinisterIsBack]

FFS SE Personal housing should just be a database table.
A DATABASE table. With item IDs, coordinates, and positioning.

THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY TAKE UP AS MUCH SPACE AS YOU ARE SAYING IT DOES.

think consoles...

[Seif]

So at best they will be "doubled" according to the producer.

How the F is that acceptable?!


Even if they were quadrupled it wouldn't even begin to be enough.

This is supposed to be PERSONAL HOUSING!!!!!!!
Now which part of those two words are you not understanding?!?!


This is the worst housing system I've ever seen in a videogame and that means even PSU had a better system.
I feel utterly betrayed by this. I've been saving only for this one thing and all the gil I have by now is nowhere near enough for even the smallest of plots in the worst spot on the lowest pop server out there.