Personal Housing Server Limitations and the Future of FFXIV Development

[Linka]

Housing is something I really think they shouldn't be to focus on, I want adventures not houses, I'm not playing this game to go to my virtual house c'mon people, lets focus on important things! Quests, fights, new classes and jobs, more items, gears...

Whelp there are tons of ppl who care about housing so it is a pretty important feature. Only beceause its not important to you doesnt mean everyone else feels the same. And honestly how would you feel if they would promise you some new awesome raid contend and you would get a hard mode version of an allready existing dungeon instead? Cuz that is kinda basically what they did with housing right now. And hell who knows they might do it with other features too

[Cidel]

Thats why instanced personal housing is best. For some reason Yoshi is being incredibly stubborn about these big neighborhoods like its going to ever simulate a real one.

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Instead hes stuck on some virtual neighborhood no one really cares about that only takes up extra hardware resources on their part.

You bring up a pretty valid point too. Is it going to kill us if we don't have a neighborhood to run around in? Probably not, but I don't speak for everyone. I hardly even run around the housing ward area now that I'm "over it," and I don't even poke my head into other people's houses (nor do I care to) unless someone in my FC encourages it. To the best of my knowledge, no one is super "neighborly" with each other and it seemed like each FC keeps to themselves... Sure, there's a nice scenic spot in wards here and there, but I'd give it up if it helped for availability.

[Titor]

Housing is something I really think they shouldn't be to focus on, I want adventures not houses, I'm not playing this game to go to my virtual house c'mon people, lets focus on important things! Quests, fights, new classes and jobs, more items, gears...

Important to you may not be important to someone else.
As a RPer, and on a server full of RPers, it seems to be very important to me and many other people on the Balmung. Gilgamesh is probably the same since they are a RP server but I cannot speak for them. Some people also enjoy gardening or modeling their furniture, hanging out with friends, or whatnot. For me personally I could care less about new quests or new gear. I do care about RP, though. But I am not saying new quests or gear are unimportant, since there is a part of the playerbase such as yourself that want them.

From the outcry on the forums, it does seem like quite a lot of people do want housing.

[Lazearus]

Housing is something I really think they shouldn't be to focus on, I want adventures not houses, I'm not playing this game to go to my virtual house c'mon people, lets focus on important things! Quests, fights, new classes and jobs, more items, gears...

But my adventure involves building a nice home with a great garden to grow stuff needed for adventuring. And anyway this housing debacle just revealed that our future adventures will be affected by their infrastructure limitations.

[Linka]

You bring up a pretty valid point too. Is it going to kill us if we don't have a neighborhood to run around in? Probably not, but I don't speak for everyone. I hardly even run around the housing ward area now that I'm "over it," and I don't even poke my head into other people's houses (nor do I care to) unless someone in my FC encourages it. To the best of my knowledge, no one is super "neighborly" with each other and it seemed like each FC keeps to themselves... Sure, there's a nice scenic spot in wards here and there, but I'd give it up if it helped for availability.

I wouldnt mind if i had to enter my property via some gate. You still could end up on your plot with your garden etc, and your friends could still visit you. If there is no other way to bring ppl their houses and gardens then that i could live with that

[Toxsik]

OP is spot on, quick messing around SE and FIX your problems NOW!!!

[Pscylo]

Welcome to the reason I walked away. It's 2014 and Eorzea is simply....Linear as hell. No player interaction with the environment, depth of systems like crafting and gathering is severely lacking, and then there is this personal housing that is nothing more than a rename of FC housing with additional wards....way....to.....go

[Gramul]

What gets me is that part of the ARR restructuring was to fix restrictive server issues.
Alphabetical friend lists.
Selective quest tracking.
The very slowly expanding ward system they where so proud to announce.
They blamed all these on server issues. What on earth did they do to make it so impossible to implement or expand basic features like this?

[Morningstar1337]

What gets me is that part of the ARR restructuring was to fix restrictive server issues.
Alphabetical friend lists.
Selective quest tracking.
The very slowly expanding ward system they where so proud to announce.
They blamed all these on server issues. What on earth did they do to make it so impossible to implement or expand basic features like this?

Became complacent for starters

[Titor]

Alphabetical friend lists.

Just throw that stuff clientside. I am pretty sure my computer is capable to sort 200 words with negligible performance impact.