Why is Housing Such a High Priority?

[Mugiawara]

Where's the news on this one?
I didn't think it was high priority, and if it is.
That sucks balls because it wouldn't have to be if they fook it up beyond belief
and LIED to us. People have been waiting for ever for housing even in 1.0.

No they did not LIE. Large numbers of people misconstrued what was said and now claim that what they believe it meant was what was said.

How are you going to say that "Personal and FC housing will different price, of course, Personal housing a much lower price." when FC is same price?
Yoshi said that. Look @ Nalien's signature for said quote.

[Lemuria]

Where's the news on this one?
I didn't think it was high priority, and if it is.
That sucks balls because it wouldn't have to be if they fook it up beyond belief
and LIED to us. People have been waiting for ever for housing even in 1.0.

This speaks truth.

I think its obvious they didn't do much with personal housing, since there is literally no difference between it and FC housing except for ownership. While I applaud the systems that are in place for gardening, chocobo rearing and so forth, the lack of instanced housing and disregard of anyone but the very rich is very concerning.

[Altanas]

Well really to meet the RP crowd and the Endgame crowd halfway, Housing Zones should have started as barren fields and we should have been allowed to build them as we wished

1. Theme the zone as we wish e.g make a volcano zone or make a creepy pirate ship zone (satisfies RP crowd).

2. In addition, placing certain structures (not just buildings) should have unlocked FC content/FC dungeons eg place a cave to unlock a dungeon (satisfies endgame crowd)

That would have made housing "relevant". At the moment it is hard to disagree with the OP. There is a lot of potential untapped. Its even more jarring that FC housing zones are the same as Private Housing zones. They should at least be different thematically.

[jomoru]

"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.

I am saying its all a matter of perspective. I PERSONALLY find "one shot kill mechanics" completely unaccessable stuff, even with echo it doesn't get made easier. Conversely New housing stuff is added eventually.

[Ultimatecalibur]

and LIED to us.

No they did not LIE. Large numbers of people misconstrued what was said and now claim that what they believe it meant was what was said.

[Kallera]

No they did not LIE. Large numbers of people misconstrued what was said and now claim that what they believe it meant was what was said.

I saw no "patch 2.1" nonsense in the post that explained the FC housing prices.

[Alukah]

I really fail to see all that time, effort, and resources you claim they put into housing.

If you're wondering about the importance of housing, it works pretty much the same as mini games or side quests, to keep you from burning content too fast or keeping you entertained if you already burned through content.

You say that "I just feel like it should take a major back seat to other content", but where do we draw the line? They will always be working on battle content, if they went with that no other content would ever get released, side content would always be delayed in favor of vertical progress / new classes.

[Mijin]

I really fail to see all that time, effort, and resources you claim they put into housing.

If you're wondering about the importance of housing, it works pretty much the same as mini games or side quests, to keep you from burning content too fast or keeping you entertained if you already burned through content.

You say that "I just feel like it should take a major back seat to other content", but where do we draw the line? They will always be working on battle content, if they went with that no other content would ever get released, side content would always be delayed in favor of vertical progress / new classes.

I understand the purpose of housing from a marking perspective, I'm surprised however, to find that some many people on these forums really are that into it. It seems like everyone else I talk to agrees with me.

[Gardthorne]

Is this thread for real? They completely phoned it in on this patch. There was clearly no priority or thought given to housing.

[Colt47]

What makes you think they put any work or effort, or even thought, into this housing system? Sure the initial bit they did, but they've spent 9 months doing zip and just removed the FC Leader restriction on buying a house. I don't see that they have put anything into it in quite some time, actually.

Because as much of a FFXIV obsessed fan that I am, I prefer the positive outlook over the negative. That and we aren't dealing with something like the dregs of steam, where people are trying to make practice projects full time games, give up on them mid flight and run off with the money. Nor are we dealing with a publisher interested in milking the life out of their player population like Nexon.