New Housing Wards for Balmung, please!

[ExKage]

It's a little upsetting that on top of this, there's no facilitated way to transfer plots. I was moderated for selling a plot last week.

[Iszhura]

What'd be good too is perhaps Account bound housing so that people can't own multiple houses (Private AND FC) on multiple characters whilst FCs are left homeless and unable to do all the fun things in game that require housing!

[Rawk]

I have faith they will add plenty of wards to prepare for Heavensward soon. They're teasing all this airship building and whatnot, there has to be a way to not lock out newer FC's from these features. Otherwise why even add them?

I'm also incredibly frustrated that there's no housing, I finally have enough gil to afford one and I've been interested in a house and wanting one (and saving!) since launch.

[Zelas]

I have faith they will add plenty of wards to prepare for Heavensward soon. They're teasing all this airship building and whatnot, there has to be a way to not lock out newer FC's from these features. Otherwise why even add them?

Seriously. My (new) FC is still waiting for new wards, and my biggest fear is, when the servers come up the day they finally add them, they will all go super quickly and we won't have time to get any house.

A game's content should never be that stressful, really. >.> Why can't there be a few plots reserved to Free Companies?

[Squand]

I'm an SE apologist, it seems. There are people selling houses on Balmung. Negotiate with them!

It took me a month of party finder to find a house for our FC. But it could have taken under a week if I'd settled. Along the way, I met and commiserated with a lot of people looking for housing. All of them had visited houses I'd never seen. A lot of houses, I said no too, were bought up same day, but some took weeks or months.

There is an active housing market. I want that! I want it player driven. They set housing up to be an investment. If everyone had access to any house they wanted, it would just be a gil sink. Would run into a slew of QOL problems. Having worlds be different is a technical, logistical, administrative hurdle not to be underestimated.

Further, people who bought houses did so with the understanding they'd have them forever. Changing that contract midstream would be wrong. You keep the house, just like you'd keep your armor set, or your gil.

[Skivvy]

Honestly, I would be content with instanced housing for all the size of the Inn room (like the old Moghoues in XI), as long as I had access to gardening and the stable.

[Madjames]

I think that they will add more housing plots.

[AvalonBright]

Adding my voice to this. Housing is one of the biggest draws a game can have for me. I played WoW for eight years and they still haven't gotten with the times. I fawned over FFXIV's demo housing trailers and the like for ages. And when they said housing for individuals would come in a later patch, it was disappointing, but understandable if it would take some time to get right.

But then not only did they delay it, but they just threw us into the same neighborhoods as full guilds. And not even the same neighborhoods, but the same PRICES. Individual players expected to pay the same housing prices as full guilds! And they barely even added any wards! I worked and worked and worked for ages. I ignored every single other aspect of the game to make enough money for even a tiny little Small plot before patch day... And I did it! But did it matter? NO! Because we snapped up every single Small plot on the entire server in TEN MINUTES!

And when I saw Yoshi-P laughing in an interview saying they felt they'd met demand it was an even bigger slap in the face. He seems so genuine and caring about the game but the fact he's so out of touch with Housing is ridiculous. I don't think he understands how big a draw it is for some people. I have been playing this game through 1.0 and the Individual housing is still the only thing that made me take a break from the game for a couple months. It was that crushing.

Honestly I can live with scrounging to make the money as long as there's enough SUPPLY. Housing being such an elite, impossible thing to reach is just completely, entirely unfair. There's enough issues with this in real life, I don't play a game to feel the same way.

[Industry13]

I'd like to see new housing wards procedurally generated. I'm not sure if there is a better name for it.

Basically, as soon as all houses are all bought up up in a ward, a new ward is automatically created with new, empty plots. Repeat as needed, with pricing as currently determined for plot rankings. I'm not entirely sure what the technical restraints would be for it, but it seems like a solution, given the demand for housing on high population worlds, where as on low populations worlds, these wards potentially wouldn't pop up so quickly. At least, that is what I would think, but I'm also not a programer, and don't know what kind of work would go into it.

[Fellheart]

I completely, 100% commiserate with AvalonBright. I have been looking forward to this for so long. When the initial prices were announced, I was crushed. I assumed I would never be able to afford my own house. Then they added personal rooms to FC housing and I thought, "Yes! Let's save up together, buy a house and each get our own rooms!" Well now we can't even do that. We're a small company, it's taken us months to save up double what a small plot would cost, and people have the nerve to ask for 40mil for a small plot. And let's not forget that's just to vacate the land.