Latest comment from Yoshida regarding Housing + Inventory space issue

[Lillia]

@ Mage Black; Honestly? I wasn't insulting nor mocking housing when I said in my previous post that it's like harvest moon in that regard, the closest 'buff' you get is the 3 star crafter stationary items you can put in there for lvl 40 and under cp boost. Aside from that Housing is just decorating, gardening and chocobo raising/coloring. (Having a melder and shop npcs is nice though.)

There's not much to it and the gardening takes about a week or more for most things. Plus unless you mine, the soil is possibly a bit costy as well. So... as much as I love my own house.. it's not a game breaker or maker in reality unless they add something like chocobo stat raising for gold saucer.

The only real restriction that having no house puts on any player is the block out from getting a rank 20 chocobo seeing as you must feed it the onions for that to work and it must be leveled up to the next rank before every onion feeding. then of course colored chocobos requires stables so that includes needing housing as well..

Also, I don't got a personal house but yes it seems like most of the same features still apply. You can furnish, raise birds and garden. As to the other question.. Nothing is stopping anyone from owning multiple houses, actually I am pretty sure I recall being told someone recently bought about 10 houses to themselves on one server.

[Lillia]

@MageBlack

Np, I agree and if I could help, I really would.

[16bitBounty]

Basically what he's doing is lying to your face because they were too busy doing other crap to implement a proper personal housing system. So in order to meet a deadline that they set themselves they added some land to FC housing and made it possible to buy one for yourself. The exact opposite of what they said they were going to do and played it off like we misunderstood them. He's full of shit and everyone knows it.



In DOFUS when 2.0 was being released, they set a deadline of (I can't remember the date) in December of that year. When the game wasn't ready at the deadline they released a new server, using the new version and kept everyone else on the working version until the new version was completed. Then they paraded it around like they met the deadline and everything was peachy keen. This is what Yoshida and the Dev team are doing. At the same time trying to smooth it over by telling us we lack reading comprehension skills.

[Jodou]

You know I often see complaints for this being not enough houses to go around and on my (what seems like fairly populated) server we have a surplus of houses unused, even small. SE is obviously aware of the statistics and yet they are evenly spreading the server loads. Not sure if this is a technical issue (their fallback excuse) or what, but does seem to be an oversight. Rather than cave and give out inn room sized houses (player housing is too awesome for this), I agree with the steps they're taking to ease this in. Eventually demand will be met and rather than have ghost town wards, I like that they're not just letting everyone buy a small and be done with it. The ward I'm in has almost all medium housing available and one large left, with many others looking the same.

This needs to be balanced better before opening the floodgates IMO.

[NyneAlexander]

You know I often see complaints for this being not enough houses to go around and on my (what seems like fairly populated) server we have a surplus of houses unused, even small.

This is crazy, because Lamia has 100k+ people on it, according to xivsoul.com. Meanwhile, my server excalibur, has just 62k people on it and I can count the number of available plots on 1 hand, all of them being medium or large.

Maybe your server is really crowded and also really poor.

[Alukah]

This is crazy, because Lamia has 100k+ people on it, according to xivsoul.com. Meanwhile, my server excalibur, has just 62k people on it and I can count the number of available plots on 1 hand, all of them being medium or large.

Maybe your server is really crowded and also really poor.

Don't use xivsoul as reference, the info there is highly inaccurate.

The most accurate info we have atm is that they divide server active population in three groups.

Group A:
Aegis / Bahamut / Balmung / Behemoth / Cactuar / Carbuncle / Chocobo / Diabolos / Durandal / Excalibur / Fenrir / Garuda / Gilgamesh / Gungnir / Hyperion / Ifrit / Leviathan / Mandragora / Masamune / Midgardsormr / Odin / Ragnarok / Ramuh / Ridill / Sargatanas / Shiva / Siren / Tiamat / Titan / Tonberry / Ultros

Group B:
Adamantoise / Alexander / Anima / Atomos / Cerberus / Coeurl / Exodus / Faerie / Goblin / Hades / Ixion / Kujata / Lamia / Malboro / Moogle / Pandaemonium / Phoenix / Typhon / Ultima / Valefor

Group C:
Asura / Belias / Brynhildr / Famfrit / Jenova / Lich / Mateus / Shinryu / Unicorn / Yojimbo / Zalera / Zeromus / Zodiark

Still within these 3 groups there's a spectrum, there's one most populated server and one least populated server which will differ a lot in housing experience.

The housing issue should affect most if not all of the group A and probably the higher spectrum of B, the least affected should be the rest of group B and group C as a whole.

So what's the obvious issue here?

They have exactly the same server resources even for the least populated server of group C.

So what's the obvious solution here?

Change server resource distribution, bigger servers have higher needs than dead servers.

[KaiKatzchen]

So what's the obvious issue here?

They have exactly the same server resources even for the least populated server of group C.

So what's the obvious solution here?

Change server resource distribution, bigger servers have higher needs than dead servers.

I agree, that along with many other things that I and others have mentioned, are issues. I wish they had held out a little longer on the personal housing, and done it justice. I'd rather it be late and in a better position than this, but from what I have seen SE feels there is nothing wrong with the way it has been implemented. At leats that is how I feel, seeing that I have not see many remarks on the many issues people have brought up, including but not limited to:

• gil
• technical limitations one year into the game
• FC and Personal housing being intermixed and fought over from both sides
• people being able to buy multiple houses and then sell them for profit when the market is sold out
• etc...

[Chasely]

I, too, wish they had waited. the little things, such as: housing, chocobo raising, gardening and such are my favorite parts of these online games. Leveling is fun too, if done in moderation. I just enjoy chatting with my raider friends and doing my own stuff.