Land Needs Are Unmet on Balmung

[Madjames]

That would certainly help with the current "housing hoarding" issue where people own several houses across alts so they can resell them at insane prices.

I mean... seriously. Someone was asking for 25kk for a small house in Lavender Beds, this weekend.
On Balmung, that's 5 times the (full) price of a highest grade small house plot. Not counting the fact that the person then has to buy the house at its full price.

It's getting pretty ridiculous.

The housing market is player driven. The full price for the plot is squares problem and what square has in the game as a gil sink. I'm sorry if you do not like that but it is the way it is. If I owned a small house I could get 20-40 mil gil for it on my server as that is what the demand is.

They simply need to open up 8-10 more wards with nothing but small and medium sized plots in them.

[Applesnap]

There are measures they can take before adding new wards. One thing they can and should do is default plots back to purchasable if the owner doesn't enter it for x period of time. There are people who have clearly never even bothered with their house after purchasing it (the entire thing and garden is empty with default name) and there's a medium plot opposite mine whose owner - to my knowledge - hasn't logged in for at least two months.

To counter the "but houses cost a lot of money and you'd lose it all" argument, if you don't log in for half a year, you obviously don't care enough to retain your land. Not to mention all of the houses bought with RMT gil that should automatically be removed. I'm aware that people get ill or have PC/console breakdowns, can't afford sub fee etc. but something needs to be done overall - not for individual servers. Even if it's a partial refund for relinquishing, but then I feel people would abuse that too. Not a very simple workaround, really.

[Thalvaus]

Being a fairly pragmatic man, it is only good business management to add things as there is a need and not to grant excessive amounts to sectors that do not need such. This is a sure fire way of wasting time, money and resources.

The best option would be not to single out a specific server or servers, but rather have there be a "threshold" for ALL servers whereby Square is alerted to a housing crisis and will conduct an investigation on implementing more housing for said server -- no matter what server it is -- without wasting resources or the player's time (and risk 40M small when they said they did not want profiteering) by upgrading all servers when they may already have hundreds of wards open already.

This will not be favoritism, but common sense for business and catering to the player base -- so long as each server gets reviewed when they meet the threshold. Maybe every two to three months they will then upgrade any reviewed area that was flagged and found to be wanting.

[Asheloux]

What's especially frustrating about this issue is that there are tons and tons of plots that are taken but completely abandoned. It's unfair to the FCs who have the gil and the rank to buy a plot. From what I understand, Balmung is one of the only servers with this housing issue and it is an issue. This is not favoritism at all--it's a problem on one server that needs to be addressed.
Thalvaus's idea is actually pretty interesting. There is a demand for more housing and there should be a resolution to this problem.
I'm kind of frustrated that SE hasn't said anything about this at all and apparently there is no new housing for 3.0 which is funny because I imagine even more players joining at the drop of Heavensward.

[Verdan]

I thought they said something about additional space being added after the expac drops? Hopefully they'll figure out what's making it impossible to generate a bunch of districts. This isn't something other games have a problem with, but for some reason this game can't add enough housing for people to play with without things all blowing up and rending millions of server farms.

[Fellheart]

My FC and I have been looking for just a small house for some time now. Most of us can't be on enough time during the week to make the gil for private houses, so we decided to save up together for a small plot. After months, we've only managed the amount to reimburse someone for what they paid for the land and purchase the plot, but of course that's not enough. We've been on Balmung since launch. Now we have a fully established company that's not going to each pay $18, lose most of our saved gil, and start our FC from scratch to go to a server with open plots.

No one is asking for special treatment for their server. Many, many people were looking forward to housing in the same manner that someone might look forward to say an expansion. If one server cannot access that content, it goes down for maintenance and the devs do what is necessary to ensure that the problem doesn't occur on the future. Apparently this has been deemed trivial content, unnecessary but for select players.

[nemises15]

i agree with who ever said buying a house on final fantasy xiv a realm reborn is hard because when i have gone to buy a house there have been two things stopping me (1, there are no more houses) and (2, they are seriously over priced) and i hate the fact that there is also quests where you need to purchase a house so i say either make the houses easier to afford for the solo players to buy or take out all the quests that require the player to purchase a house first

--update--
there is someone on final fantasy xiv a realm reborn cerberus server selling a small house for 8 million gil

[Voldemort]

There is a problem with arguing that "X server that is smaller has better housing markets than a more populated server. Y Bigger servers can have more party finding opportunities, but you lose out on buying a house. Too bad".

And the problem is thinking there needs to be a choice. Either you can have an excellent time running with players in raids, or you can buy a house. As everyone is a paying customer here, why should we be limited by this choice?

Frankly bigger servers should see special treatment in the form of increased housing.
Smaller servers will get the same treatment when they experience the same limitedness in the housing market. They just have to grow as well.

Case in point, Hyperion has one house for sale every full moon or so, and it goes for 37million gil. Quite impossible to ever color your chocobo, train a racing bird, grow gardens, or anything in that realm when it's guaranteed only 1/9th of the total server population will ever have the chance to buy a house and experience that content.

Not to mention free companies that no longer are active, or homeowners who have up and quit the game will not have their housing relinquished, effectively narrowing the marketable houses even further.

[Verdan]

It's happening all over the place! I warned you about fixed plots bro! I told you, dog!

[Grimmel]

Someone is selling a small on Balmung in Mists for 40 mil... That's 40 mil to relinquish the plot that's NOT tied to a FC. Then possibly 4-5 mil to buy the actual plot itself. This is ridiculous.