PETITION - Personal Housing

[Parz3val]

Doubt you're going to revert it now (you should though), so do this SE & fast (within the week max):

Add a minimum of 4 more Wards right away.

Cut Personal Housing prices in half (reimburse 50% to whomever has already purchased a home since patch).

Seperate Private Wards from FC Wards entirely (reimburse in full to those who've bought into mixed Wards).

If there's enough demand, also spruce up the Goblet some more.

If anything, slash prices in half & reimburse.

[Parz3val]

If I had it my way we would've had an instanced, privatized home to ourselves that isn't part of a community ward whatsoever... folding them into the current layouts/neighborhoods is pretty weak IMHO.

[AttacKat]

Add a minimum of 4 more Wards right away.

Each ward is a zone, which is a physical machine, so, having 30 game worlds, each having 4 wards, 120 machines ...

Don't hold your breath.

[Everjams]

Well they are about to add 8 more wards and double the existing homes in all so that will at least double give you 3 times more room to purchase in 2.4

[Doki]

Yeah... but if you really read the last few lines in his reply to all the complaints it really sounds like they will "try" to get the extra wards in 2.4, but not exactly a promise either.

[Gramul]

They will need to add a lot more wards to satisfy the wants of the populous. Especially if the prices are to be cut by half.
Separating FC from it is something that probably should happen.

[Nalien]

I'd rather they work on quadrupling the number of wards for 2.4.
Drop the cost of plots overall by a significant amount; for individuals and FCs.
Add a 35 day tax that needs to be payed to keep the plot.
Base the tax on the size of the plot and the number of people owning it (individuals pay less than FCs).

The idea behind paying for plots was for it to be a Gil sink. It isn't. You pay it, then you have a house and there is no real significant Gil sink left in the game; you just keep making Gil. Adding a tax means you can drop the initial cost, pleasing most people, but eventually they'll be paying more through the tax. Since it's a lower amount though, it's more manageable. It stops FCs from hoarding a plot if people leave, currently a 12 man FC could have bought a plot, but as long as 1 person remains they can keep that plot - if they had to pay a tax that reflected a FC then they'd stand to lose it.

I mean really... Consider how much Gil this game throws at you through; FATEs, Levequests, regular quests, Dailies, Duty Roulette, Dungeon mobs, Hunt Marks, and Gods knows what else I'm forgetting. The only Gil sinks in the game are all completely avoidable too; Teleport fees? Walk everywhere or use Allied Seals. Market Board fees? Trade directly. Repair fees? Go level a craft you lazy bum. Housing Tax would be avoidable too I guess, but people actually want Housing. The only working tax I can think of is the vanity tax that has you shelling out millions for mounts and minions (from beast tribes mainly), but that is a one time deal too.

Left as it is, the amount of Gil per server is just going to keep rising, and Housing isn't going to do anything about that except alienate people because the price has to be so high to make up for the fact that this game has no Gil sink.

[Chiramu]

Cut Personal Housing prices in half (reimburse 50% to whomever has already purchased a home since patch).

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That is ridiculous. Personal housing will never be an achievement and bragging right if they are that cheap. If SE do what you suggest it completely belittles the entire purpose of a personal house.

[Souljacker]

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That is ridiculous. Personal housing will never be an achievement and bragging right if they are that cheap. If SE do what you suggest it completely belittles the entire purpose of a personal house.

Why should a personal house be an "achievement"? In XI I got a mog house and all I had to do was subscribe and create a character. XIV players are too elitist. Everything has to be out of reach of the average paying subscriber. It's absurd.

[Zileth]

Nope dont agree with OP maybe if his opinion wernt er so much as HIS opinion and maybe if they didnt sound so entitled then I would of sided