Personal housing time limit?

[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...

[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.

[Dree-Elle]

There already *is* instanced housing in the game.

It's called a Free Company room.

[Ferr]

There already *is* instanced housing in the game.

It's called a Free Company room.

A room is not a house, and you need an FC with a house for that. Not everyone has that (and you still miss the garden).

Houses are a commitment, but like real life you shouldn't be allowed to keep one if you can't afford the mortgage payments. Logging in once a month doesn't sound like all that tough a 'payment', either.

Let's not compare real life with a fantasy game... Theres a hunderds of legit reasons for someone to not be able to log for a month. A monthly limit is stupid.

And I agree with Titor. Even if we loose our house after maybe a half year of not logging in than this would make barely any change at all..even now only a small percentage of people own a house and even not every FC has one..and than we still have the problem of people with too much gil buying those houses with their alt character or just opening a second FC..The only thing that SE will achieve with a timer is making the people that loose them angry, give some bigger FC even more a chance to earn more money and maybe making a handful of other people happy (or even not). Really the only solution to this would be wards for FC only and instanced housing for private people. Than nobody needs to fear to loose their house and everyone can enjoy one.

I agree.

[BubblyBoar]

People think SE is being silly and not trying to add space just seemed to conveniently forget that they are actually adding a legit EU datacenter. Housing just isn't a priority for server space when they have a WHOLE region to make a data center for. Instead of getting all defensive about keeping your house while you sub once every 3 months, just relax and realize that we're talking about the plots that were bought and completely unused since housing was implemented.

[Arixtotle]

Pretty sure you don't have to pay a mortgage back if you, you know didn't take one out and bought said house outright.

But you still have to pay property taxes.