Why is Housing Such a High Priority?

[Mijin]

Am I the only one who feels like way to much time, effort, and resources are being put into housing by the development team?

I mean, housing is neat and all, and it's fun to make your own place, but seriously how important is it? I'm not saying that the progress should stop on the housing and land plots, but why is it such a high priority?

I personally would adore to see more endgame content, new jobs, dungeons, zones, and other action related content before anything else.

I, like many others here, am a FFXI vet, and one of the things that made XI so great I'm regards to my personal opinion is the immense job diversity. We are getting Ninja, and that's great, I'm very excited about it, as XI players will recognize by name it's the job I want more than anything, but I just feel like working on more jobs should really be top priority.

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[Mijin]

I'm not suggesting that they only cater to XI players, I think (I may be wrong ) that the vast majority of us would love new jobs to explore.

Anyway, what do you guys think? Should housing be such a high priority? What type of content do you think they should be focusing more resources on?

[lololink]

The problem with housing is that not anyone can have access to it, which is terribad for a P2P game, I'm not saying that everyone should have easy access to everything but the way housing is right now makes it impossible for everyone, even if they wanted to, to access. That's why it's a priority for them to manage to get enough server ressources so that everyone is equal.

[jomoru]

The problem with housing is that not anyone can have access to it, which is terribad for a P2P game, I'm not saying that everyone should have easy access to everything but the way housing is right now makes it impossible for everyone, even if they wanted to, to access. That's why it's a priority for them to manage to get enough server ressources so that everyone is equal.

I'd say Housing is much more accessable than instant kill mechanics in Primals/Raids.

[lololink]

I'd say Housing is much more accessable than instant kill mechanics in Primals/Raids.

Really ? How can it be less accessable than housing when there is no house left ?

[jomoru]

Really ? How can it be less accessable than housing when there is no house left ?

I set my alarm and bought one. There's plenty of raiding stuff I just can't get past(might be not having a static, might be I suck). So from my perspective Housing is accessable, raiding is not.

[Nalien]

I set my alarm and bought one. There's plenty of raiding stuff I just can't get past(might be not having a static, might be I suck). So from my perspective Housing is accessable, raiding is not.

"I got one, so housing is accessible to everyone!"

Sorry, but not beating endgame content doesn't make it inaccessible, it makes them challenging.

Not being able to buy land because there are not enough plots makes it inaccessible. You literally cannot access that content because it's been taken up by someone else.

Take one of those arcade crane games; one is empty and one is just really hard - which one has accessible rewards? Just because you were there earlier and got something out of the one which is now empty doesn't change the fact that it is now empty. Just because you cannot get anything out of the hard one doesn't mean it's empty.

[lololink]

I set my alarm and bought one. There's plenty of raiding stuff I just can't get past(might be not having a static, might be I suck). So from my perspective Housing is accessable, raiding is not.

So if everyone was here at the time of the end of maint they would all have their house even if there are less houses than players. Argh a paradoxe! The universe is crumbling !!!!! Run for your life !!!!

[Naunet]

I set my alarm and bought one. There's plenty of raiding stuff I just can't get past(might be not having a static, might be I suck). So from my perspective Housing is accessable, raiding is not.

Ah, but can you physically enter the instance and work on the content? Yes.

The same cannot be said for housing.

I feel like it's a big priority for them because it's talked about so much. It could be that is in light of the major problems it has had, but I feel like it's the number one thing Yoshi P. has talked about since release of 2.0.

It's clearly high-priority for a lot of players. Yoshi talks about it because players continuosly bring it up. Judging by how they've implemented the system (one of the most bare-bones and inaccessible housing systems in any MMO I have ever seen), it is clearly not a priority for SE.

To answer the OP's question - personal housing had the potential to bring me back to the game. As it is now, my decision to not renew my sub when it comes up in... *checks* 13 days remains.

[Mogi]

I set my alarm and bought one. There's plenty of raiding stuff I just can't get past(might be not having a static, might be I suck). So from my perspective Housing is accessable, raiding is not.

Lol yea that says something you set your alarm but what about ppl with a job or class? in the morning your way of thinking is why SE made a mess {not that i am mad about how housing is} but for ppl with out a fc home or ppl that were waiting for a place of there own i can understand