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.

[Dotsusama]

I don't see housing as a top priority issue. If anything, I don't think housing has been given enough priority because they are working on so much other content instead. The evidence is in how many times the housing related patches and fixes have fallen short of people's expectations.

If you're asking why the dev team bothers with housing at all, I think it's the sense of permanence. Players like to have something in the game that is uniquely theirs. With equipment that's barely possible, outside of glamours that anyone can mimic if they have the gear or the time to get it (except certain unique / rare rewards).

[jomoru]

Counter point, why have more than 3 jobs(tank, healer, dps) and only one dungeon to run over and over again and instead they could put all their resources into making space for houses, I mean why should I care what you think since you clearly don't give a crap about anyone but yourself?

[loreleidiangelo]

I'd question whether or not housing was even a "priority" to the developers, considering how sloppily it was implemented.

On topic, this game's current structure really doesn't cultivate the amount of jobs 11 had, due to it following the standard MMORG holy trinity. More jobs would be nice to see, but with this model you can only have so many tanks/healers/DPS before they all start to feel the same.

[Nalien]

High priority? What they added in 2.38 was fundamentally no different than what they added in 2.1, I don't think we've been losing endgame content for them to introduce this.

Plus, you know, different teams working on different things. If they dropped the housing team it doesn't mean the Coil team suddenly works faster, it just means we don't have housing.

[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 ?

[Madoka]

Because loud people wanted houses and made a fuss

Also you can edit your first post to get past the 1k thing