Personal housing time limit?

[Nekodar]

A time limit should be there. If you have to take extended leaves regularly, what use do you have for a personal house anyway?
No gil compensation to anyone that loses their house for any reason either as that could just lead to people investing in a house on an alt, then wait for someone to buy it, or if noone wants to buy it at a higher price get the investment back without any loss.

Something needs to be done to grant more people the possibility of buying a house though. And prevent people from buying plots speculatively.
There are plenty of plots that's been bought only to gouge other players that want a house.

[Titor]

If you have to take extended leaves regularly, what use do you have for a personal house anyway?

If you really think that something that costs literally 80 million gil should be taken away due to a 1-2 month break (sometimes not even of their choice or desire), you should just support deleting the character and the rest of the account with it, because why would they need those as well?

It is a bit coldhearted to want to remove such a large investment on such short notice /and/ without compensation.

Listen, I am sorry there are not enough houses to go around. That is not my fault. I do not want my large investment to be gone without compensation if something came up IRL that I was not able to control but had every intent of returning when the issue passed. If my house was gone, I am not even sure I would want to come back. It is my pride and joy of my game right now. I worked so hard for it, to see it just gone would be devastating.


The answer is more housing instances or instanced housing/another system.

[Ferr]

There's only one solution and it's that SE get their stuff together and add new plots or revamp the housing system if necesary.

It's amazing how people here are just looking for ways to punish players in a system that cleary SE didn't think enough when implementing. If you implement housing in a game, it should be in a way that everyone will (at some point, even if it requieres years of grinding) be able to get it.

[Cherie]

When SE finally gets time to add more wards and maybe some housing in Ishgard, I really think the new houses should be more expensive than they were originally. Otherwise, like in two weeks we are going to be exactly where we were. Atleast on leviathan server, it took almost until a few weeks before the expac before all the new wards were full. With all the new influx of money into the system with the expansion, people are a lot richer and a new ward would fill almost immediately at this point at the original prices.

I'm not saying this to block anyone but, a house should feel like a investment. If you buy one you might feel like you are going to be poor for a while. It shouldn't feel like some impulse buy like buying some cookies at the store...

[Amiaze]

If you really want people to pay a subscription during a time that they will not be able to play the game, just so they can keep their hard-earned house, you are literally asking them to pay real-world rent for a virtual house.

This is true. I guess I wasn't really clear in my edit. I should have said that it would be more beneficial for it to be subscription-based rather than log-in based, although it would really stink for players who can't get on for a month or two. Not that it's the best solution by far, just that it's better than a log-in solution due to there being less of a chance of people manipulating the system.

Adding more housing is the most obvious and viable solution, but how much would they have to add to satisfy their customer base? Heavensward brought a slew of brand new players that are still going through ARR content. More often than not, the DF gives me at least one new player in hard dungeons. There wasn't enough housing before Heavensward; adding them into the equation only compounds the issue.

[Kiara1]

This is why I think it should be subscription-based rather than log-in based. It would stink to pay for a game that you cannot play at the time, but at least it would offer some solution to a lack of housing while also offering a way for players with houses to keep theirs. I'm curious to see how Ishgardian housing wards sell if/when we get them.

Tbh the reason we can't have this, is because of this--v

Especially since theres no variety in content, the game pretty much forces you to take 2-3 month long breaks :/

Having to pay just to keep the house is kinda weird and like paying real life rent tbh

[StrejdaTom]

When SE finally gets time to add more wards and maybe some housing in Ishgard, I really think the new houses should be more expensive than they were originally.

Sorry but no, no at all.
When they released small house for 4M people on forums went nuts and we had dozen of threads crying about how the housing is unaccessible.

And honestly gating housing behind money wall only because SE cannot provide enough server space for instanced housing for subscription based game is just plain dumb. All they have to do is to release one big patch 3 months later than usual, take some of the money we gave them and actually buy some server space with them instead of puting them to developement of their other singleplayer games.

[CarnivalNights]

After much hard work I was able to finally afford to pay for someone to demolish their house and buy the property myself.

It was great, but after a while I noticed I never saw another soul.

Turns out all neighbors have quit the game for at least a year. Take their land away from them. It's terrible.

[ElHeggunte]

There needs to be some kind of limit. Right now there are way too many plots and houses that are currently unoccupied because their owners quit a long time ago with no intention of ever coming back. Letting them sit in limbo permanently just because they might come back isn't very fair to the people who are actively playing and wanting a home. I can appreciate the plight of those players who want to play and yet are forced away for extended periods, but the system can't stay the way it is.

[Alleyia]

I would like to add that there should be a time frame at which you *have* to actually build a house on your land. I saw some plots being occupied since the beginning of housing which still don't have a house on them.