Housing accessibility in 3.3

[ToffeeCoffee]

Posting this here to increase visibility, hopefully to the CM's, GM's, devs, etc.

In order for people who have never owned their own plot in FFXIV, to have the chance to purchase their first plot and house in patch 3.3 - could a temporary restriction please be put in place to stop players from buying plots if they already own housing on their account? This would prevent players from buying plots for their alts and also limit the amount of houses being flipped for profit (which supposedly is not allowed but also not policed).

Owning a house is a primary driver for a lot of people and the reason they log in to save up gil.

The restriction could be for a day, an hour, anything to allow players who have never owned their own plot to be able to do so.

[LaylaTsarra]

This would prevent players from buying plots for their alts..

If they don't want alts buying houses they need to make it so alts can access the main accounts house so they can use it as their own. Fully functional alternate accounts should have housing access as well. I'm not talking about flipping them for a profit. Selling houses shouldn't be tolerated.

[Lexia]

If they don't want alts buying houses they need to make it so alts can access the main accounts house

There still be a lot of people that would think that their alts need their own house, which I'm sure could easily out number the amount of plots they adding.

[Belhi]

To be fair, people have been penalised for 'playing real estate agent' when they have been reported. I find it kind of a joke to argue that its anything like a real estate agent since real estate agents actually sell you the land and house rather than camp on the land and demand money to move so you can buy it.

I think if it becomes a problem again you might see SE starting to take a more hard line on it as they cant just endlessly add more districts to make land available and the 'trading' of land makes housing become out of reach for a lot of players.

[Celef]

I'd like to ask them to add a restriction on private housing personnaly.
A lot of FC do not have a guild hall yet and can't have access to certains of the features of the game so why not make those new plots for FC first ?

[Laerune]

I have posted this in another thread, but I have to agree with OP on this. Players who do not own atleast 1 house , should be given few days. a week, some time to purchase their house. Right now, it does not matter if you have the funds or not, aslong as one player is there first, he or she can buy it and do whatever they want with it. If this was a MMORPG where everyone could own a house, aslong as they had the funds, then this would not have been a issue, but sadly this is an issue.

Should alts be given the option to co-own the same house as their main, afcourse, but alts should not been given priority over mains. A Linkshell member of mine owns 8 houses and majority of those are just used on alts for gardening, so he can sell the items and make a profit. This is what housing is in FFXIV a way to make steady amount of Gil. The more houses you own, the more stuff you can produce, the more suff you can sell which results in more gil. So do I blame players for wanting more then one house, so they can make more gil, afcourse not. But this does not change the facts that housing as it is right now is badly implemented.

This is why I agree with OP and add my own suggestion. My suggestion to the developers is:

1. Add a restriction to amount of houses that one can buy. If a player owns a house on his/her account, they can not buy another house for the next 14 days after more houses are released. This gives players that are working, at school or at holiday the time to buy a house. After the 14 days the restriction is lifted and they can buy the houses that are for sale. If someone that did not own a house buys one then they too are hit by the 14 days CD, so they can not buy 2 houses at the same time.

2. Give the less wealthy players a chance to buy the small or a medium house, Last time alot of the cheaper houses were bought by the rich players. This should be changed. I would suggest that the non home owners should be given a priority to buy the cheaper houses. Home owners can only buy the large houses.

SE has delivered us a broken feature that requires the player to have the right amount of funds and the luck of being the first person there to buy it. If funds were the only issue then nobody would be making any fuss, but sadly the houses are not infinite, so this means some players will never own a house (even if they have the gil to buy them) and others will own more then one.

System as it is, is broken.

[ToffeeCoffee]

Bumping in the small hope an official word will be made about flipping plots and whether or not they can be restricted initially to players who don't own one on their account. Or is it just going to be another unrestricted free for all rush with players buying up plots on their alts and selling them at highly inflated prices.

[CuteWhisper]

I totally agree with this and hope we get a dev response soon.

[Titor]

I disagree. I roleplay a lot on multiple characters and have spent a lot of time leveling one of my alternate characters and saving up the gil to get him a specific medium plot. You all have the same chances and time to save up the gil and buy a plot, so just race me for it rather than kicking me out entirely just because I got a house on my main ._.

I would really like a certain secondary character of mine to have a house of his own for rp and am really looking forward to trying to grab one for him.