Why not put housing plots on mog station?

[Azurymber]

If the reason for limited land plots is server costs, why not break down the costs and charge money for plots via the mog station? It could even be done as a monthly or yearly rent.

As long as the plots couldn't be resold for gil, it would clear up the serious issue of buying and reselling houses. And in turn, it would clear up the normal wards for people who want to buy a house with gil (especially once new wards are released)

The fastest way to make gil in this game at the moment is to buy and resell property. And when people are using 3rd party programs to notify them, it ruins a chunk of the game for a lot of players. Making it possible to purchase plots via the mog station would help fix this.

And while I understand the whole apartment thing is supposed to fix the problem, a lot of people will still want their own yard, in a ward, with easy access to a marketboard and retainer bell.

[Genesis-xyx]

While I'm sure your intentions are well placed, I know the majority of the games population would be upset over this, myself included. Housing should always be something that is payed for out of our sub and Gil alone.

[KrenianKandos]

Shroud of the Avatar is doing that.

It's a catch 22. Some people love the idea of this, but a lot of people are voicing their displeasure on having to spend money (IRL money at that) on a game.

Worse: on a sub game where you already are paying to play the game.

The logical answer would be that they need to sit down and try to budget a bit of funding on upgrading the server infrastructure at some point to make it more stable to accommodate the housing request. But you will find a lot of people will get angry if a feature in a Pay to Play game is put on a cash shop to bypass the work they did to get the house with their funds and beating the rushes when the lots became available.

There's no easy answer to this. They just need to put their boots on and fix their infrastructure. It's simple as that.

[EdwinLi]

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This is why I think SE should introduce Personal Apartment for players who can't obtain a housing plot and don't want to be restricted to a FC.

Inn rooms are decent but does not provide the customization option players want.

Personal Apartment would be easier to provide customiable rooms for all players and would not require a plot instance like housing which currently serves mostly to limit the amount of housing in the game.

[KrenianKandos]

This is why I think SE should introduce Personal Apartment for players who can't obtain a housing plot and don't want to be restricted to a FC.

Inn rooms are decent but does not provide the customization option players want.

Personal Apartment would be easier to provide customiable rooms for all players and would not require a plot instance like housing which currently serves mostly to limit the amount of housing in the game.

Not arguing with that whatsoever, to be honest with you. There should be a way for each individual player to be able to afford a house or at least, an apartment of some sort to call their own and have the options of a mini home. But I am also under the impression that the housing system was created in the purpose for all players to join together in an FC and purchase it as an FC in order for you to work together. It's almost like an accomplishment. But again, even that's problematic because there's not enough housing for all the FCs out there.

They honestly need to invest in the housing infrastructure with some of their money and that is that.

[Aethaeryn]

This is why I think SE should introduce Personal Apartment for players who can't obtain a housing plot and don't want to be restricted to a FC.

Inn rooms are decent but does not provide the customization option players want.

Personal Apartment would be easier to provide customiable rooms for all players and would not require a plot instance like housing which currently serves mostly to limit the amount of housing in the game.

Aren't they already working on this? O_o

[Kosmos992k]

This is why I think SE should introduce Personal Apartment for players who can't obtain a housing plot and don't want to be restricted to a FC.

Inn rooms are decent but does not provide the customization option players want.

Personal Apartment would be easier to provide customiable rooms for all players and would not require a plot instance like housing which currently serves mostly to limit the amount of housing in the game.

UM, Are any of you in this topic aware of the simple fact that SE has in fact confirmed that they will be bringing personal apartments to the housing areas through what in Japan are called Mansions, and elsewhere are more properly known as condominiums, or perhaps apartments. In essence each 'mansion' will house up to 512 player apartments they also indicate they are working on gardening furnishings and some kind of communal chocobo stable.

As I remember it this new form of housing will be a central building in the ward that players can enter their apartment through. Free Companies can have 512 members each with a personal chamber. This new concept is a communal housing building that houses 512 personal apartments for players. I would guess that this new concept is more or less a special implementation of the FC functionality to allow players who 'join' the mansion to purchase their apartment, and participate in gardening and chocobo raising in ways similar to those that are available within a Free Company. Of course there is no actual Free Company in this case, just a place holder for the mansion access and Personal Apartments.

Either way, I'm more or less certain this has been announced in a previous Live Letter.

Putting existing plots on the MogStation would be a disaster and very unfair to players who do not currently have a home since they would now be expected to pay extra $$ instead of in-game currency. OP, this is a poor idea that no one wants (there that's more polite than my original comment).

[Stormfur]

Yeah. I wouldn't put housing on the market per se, but it may be worth putting some unique items on that you may not be able to get in game without a LOT of work (for example, the mog house façades). Sure, you can get them in game if you collect the materials and such, but you could also pay to get them too and I think more people would pay a couple bucks than would spend all that time gathering and crafting. Would be interesting if you could give your house more unique looks too with different architecture, like Sharlayan, Dravanian, etc.

[Whiteroom]

please no... I really can't stand these, "Just charge us!" threads. Lets just ask that SE funnel more money back into FFXIV instead of away.