Hurray! Finally saved up 6mil for my personal house!

[MageBlack]

Cost is not my issue. Availability is. What good does 60mil do if you arent the first one to the plot? I thought we had chocobo racing for this.

[Welsper59]

I was just under the false impression, probably from my own desires for the content, that Personal housing would have been totally separate from FC housing, not shared. I just hope that we can either double the current amount of housing, get instanced personal homes, or a free server transfer when they add the EU servers. I'll happily move but I will need to move at bare minimum 4 accounts personally and I don't really want to pay (My account and 2 kids and wife's accounts) that or try to convince the rest of the FC to move on their dime. until then I will suffer and continue to accept the choice I made not to fork out $80 - $400 to transfer everyone.

You're completely justified to have assumed what you did, but it was still just an assumption lol. In an ideal situation, it really shouldn't come down to the better option being to move multiple accounts, but that's just dependent on how important the matter is to you. Personally, I'd just say to tough it out where you are to save on costs (since moving for housing wouldn't be worth the price IMO). Eventually, either the wards will free up here and there or the devs will add more. They have to, it's just that it may not happen until 2.55 or after expansion (don't expect it to be on expansion release, due to the new content). Heck, they may even open up a housing ward in Ishgard in the future lol.

Not a false Impression, that's what they said until the housing patch came.

I'm pretty sure they didn't say anything about personal housing getting its own wards. If I remember right, all they said was that they would be adding wards in light of personal housing (does not mean they're exclusively for that purpose nor that they are to cater every player). Along with the mention that costs would be separate, which they weren't and can definitely be caught as a lie on that one, since there was no follow up comment on such a change. As someone that plays the economic game often, it comes as no surprise, but still a little deceitful to not remember/care to update on the matter since the raise in economic values hadn't changed for months by the time the patch released.

[MageBlack]

You're completely justified to have assumed what you did, but it was still just an assumption lol. In an ideal situation, it really shouldn't come down to the better option being to move multiple accounts, but that's just dependent on how important the matter is to you. Personally, I'd just say to tough it out where you are to save on costs (since moving for housing wouldn't be worth the price IMO). Eventually, either the wards will free up here and there or the devs will add more. They have to, it's just that it may not happen until 2.55 or after expansion (don't expect it to be on expansion release, due to the new content). Heck, they may even open up a housing ward in Ishgard in the future lol.

For sure! I'm not moving all of us because There would also be the matter of trying to move the gil when there is a 1mil gil limit for transfer, It wont work to transfer the 15+mil our FC has saved up along with the 8+mil I now have let alone what everyone else has in their pockets. It's just not feasible to move us all, not at this point. I'm pretty sure we wont see new wards until, the earliest, 3.0 release or maybe 3.1. We wont see anything more come for wards before then. As for Ishgard, they said there wont be housing for there, "at least not at first", so I think it will be like Mor Dhona and evolve over the course of the expansion and maybe near the end we will have a new place to call home. It will happen, its just a matter of time and I can be patient.

[Catwho]

Cost is not my issue. Availability is. What good does 60mil do if you arent the first one to the plot? I thought we had chocobo racing for this.

It was and still is cost on our server. Everyone had started from scratch on 2.0. Sure, a few mansions sold to big FCs within the first few days, but we were the second people in a small house in our neighborhood in Ward 2 in Mist when we first bought it a few weeks after housing came out, and we were still able to buy a mansion almost six months later. Lamia has a raiding economy, I think, so those handful of us that make our millions off crafting had almost total control of housing from the beginning.

[MageBlack]

But at least if you came up with the money, you can get a house. because they are available.

[Ophie-Mio]

But at least if you came up with the money, you can get a house. because they are available.

Benefit to either starting on a non-legacy 2.0 server or moving to that type of server, unfortunately for the legacy server peeps who were there from the beginning. the servers in general though are supposed to have good and bad points so that people can see where they wanna be. You see a server that's locked frequently...you really wanna go there?? @.@

Hopefully moving forward, SE can figure out a better solution to housing that doesn't keep eating server space and prepares for the fact that some servers are just full on up. They could also lock Balmung forever like Bahamut was on FFXI. It was locked for good. People squeezing through the gates of Balmung doesn't help anyone.

[MageBlack]

I wonder if it would be an accurate analogy to compare the housing situation to the relic weapons. What would people say if there were only X number of relic weapons avaliable per server. So, only the first 1500 players to earn a weapon would get one and you had to wait for someone to toss or sell their weapon for another player to get one.

[Aivi_lo]

Well I didn't express myself very well lol

[MageBlack]

I added a few more things to my OP, Hopefully I'm not repeating myself too much. I think with 3.0 on the horizon, we need to know if new players will be able to get houses or will they be locked out of all the new content behind a wall of first-come-first-served.

[Teryaani]

I'm pretty sure they didn't say anything about personal housing getting its own wards. If I remember right, all they said was that they would be adding wards in light of personal housing (does not mean they're exclusively for that purpose nor that they are to cater every player).

SE didn't handle player expectations well on this feature ("While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.").

I've got a lot of good things to say about SE's development and communications people , just not on this subject.