When will you really address the housing availability problem?

[Colorful]

It will eventually be fixed.

After they add it to the Mog Station.

[Youkulm]

Remember how everyone was like "Oh I cant wait Heavensward, all is gonna be so much better!"
Please look forward to it

Nah my FC was still worried about housing at the time. lol. Sure yay new content, but we knew SE wasn't doing anything about housing... and we would continued to be locked out of more content. We have since overpaid for a house, but there are still paying customers that have been waiting for a year.

[Kaurie]

It's so frustrating, I just want to be able to home in the Mists for epic beach parties, but my lame FC house is in the Goblet *cry*

[Naliee]

First, let's be honest and admit that the true aim of housing reclamation is to encourage inactive players to resubscribe (a minimum of 5-6 months out of the year).

Tbh, you would think these players have better use for that money, I personally wouldn't pay for a game that I'm not loving.

[Kaurie]

Tbh, you would think these players have better use for that money, I personally wouldn't pay for a game that I'm not loving.

The idea is that people may be enjoying the game but taking breaks, i.e. log on the month of patch for 1 month, then off for 2 months then back on etc.. With 45 days renewal, they'll need to make it 2/3 months subbed instead of 1/3. I am not sure how many people actually do this though, nor do I know how many people who own a house are currently unsubbed. It's all guesswork!

[Gyson]

While the recent news on expanding the current wards and the repeated intention to add housing to Ishgard is good news, the additional news on apartment housing is very disturbing.

To me, that's a sign of Square washing their hands free and clear of the whole housing shortage fiasco once and for all. Because once there's enough apartments available for everyone they'll be able to claim they've resolved the issue, despite the fact that they know only a small percentage of players will actually have an in-game house with a yard that is physically placed in a neighborhood (which I suspect most will prefer to some instanced tiny room in an apartment building).

I really wish rather than wasting development resources on this disappointing "solution" they would invest that effort into making the current type of housing available to everyone.

[Zojha]

I really wish rather than wasting development resources on this disappointing "solution" they would invest that effort into making the current type of housing available to everyone.

Well the solution to current housing is simple: Add wards until everyone has a house, upgrading servers as necessary. Now, a server like Balmung has like what, 25000 players? If one ward has 30 houses, that means 834 wards are necessary total. Less with subdivisions. Discounting people who have more than one house and FCs go extra. Even if we assume a quarter of the playerbase has zero interest in housing whatsoever, that's a truckload.

I have a rough idea why they don't attempt to make current housing available to everyone - it's not feasible.

[Gyson]

Well the solution to current housing is simple: Add wards until everyone has a house, upgrading servers as necessary. Now, a server like Balmung has like what, 25000 players? If one ward has 30 houses, that means 834 wards are necessary total. Less with subdivisions. Discounting people who have more than one house and FCs go extra. Even if we assume a quarter of the playerbase has zero interest in housing whatsoever, that's a truckload.

I have a rough idea why they don't attempt to make current housing available to everyone - it's not feasible.

Tell that to Turbine. From a gameplay perspective they use the exact same structure as FFXIV - 4 regions for player neighborhoods with 30 houses per neighborhood. There's a 250 neighborhood limit per region. That's *30,000* homes compared to FFXIV's 1,440.. and their game is free-to-play, going on 7 years old now, and dealing with *much* older server hardware. Someone should have told them it wasn't feasible.

[Zojha]

Tell that to Turbine.

Does that game/developer have to remove other UI elements in order to make TP bars without numbers possible...?