When is SE going to do something real to fix the issues with housing?

[dragonseth07]

Even if there were still issues, there would be fewer issues and it would be more fair. Not being able to make something perfect is not an excuse to do nothing. Apartments are garbage. When people bring up apartments it makes me want to vomit.

I agree. They should change people owning multiple houses. I want to see that happen. But, it's probably not going to give you or anybody else in this thread here a house. There simply aren't enough houses to go around, and any that open up would be bought before any of us got off of work. And that's the point I'm trying to make: apartments suck, but there is a reason SE went with them. They don't want to make full housing available to everyone. They want it to be a highly limited market. Why? Talk to them about it. I disagree with the direction, but it's not my decision to make.

[Lyshell]

You keep saying things shouldn't be "handed out to players." They're limited because SE doesn't want to pay for the server space - fine but probably don't allow people to get 10+ of an extremely limited resource then.

You are projecting your own opinion into a statement that is just fact. I am saying if the resources and space was available for everyone to have and purchase a house were there, it would be done. Clearly this isn't the case and a system is in place to limit that and, they are working on it and keep adjusting on it and they will continue to do so. That is all I have said, nothing I have said implied anything regarding players feeling entitled or feeling they deserve a house handed to them. You need to stop reading into such a simple statement.

There's no reason why it's okay for one person to have multiple houses when others haven't had a chance for years, no matter how you spin it. I think you're missing the real issue people have with the system. It's broken and not working, period. It's being abused into the pit by greedy western players.

You people have a real problem with reading. Never did I say that was okay and never did I say the system is perfect. All I said is they are working on it, they'll try and see what works, some things will suck, some things will work. We can hope for the best.

[birdy_reene]

They are, hmmmm after so many years, probably never going to fix it because its not broke. You want a house, move to a smaller server. Take your friends with you. Housing isn't broke. Your server population is.

[Ametrine]

Not so. Low pop servers suffer from the same housimg limitations, save for the fact it takes a few hours for houses to be bought up verses minutes.

The fact that there is no limit to the amount of homes you can own is a very bad call on SE's part, but it seems wicked to take them from players that already own them. It should be implemented as such going forward that if you own a home, you can't buy more property, giving other players a chance, while letting current players retain what they have.

[ckc22]

They are, hmmmm after so many years, probably never going to fix it because its not broke. You want a house, move to a smaller server. Take your friends with you. Housing isn't broke. Your server population is.

Moving to some backwoods server where nothing ever happens is not an acceptable solution.

[Legion88]

Don't forget they planed housing for players seperated from the FC housing and with less costs...like the appartments. But people didn't want to wait for it and felt entiteld to housing so they cried and cried till SE decided players can have the left over FC houses. Be glad the don't take the houses away from the players and restrict it to FCs only like in the first months.

I say it here and now: When the day comes and we can upgrade the appartments to have multiple floors and a schrebergarten, they will take away the housing plots from players.

[Alleo]

I am still not sure who thought it would be a great idea to have wards for personal housing too. It was a nice idea for free companies since you could meet each other in the garden but they should have made the personal houses completely instanced. It would be like the apartments with one house in each city and you could have upgrated your house from a small to a large one. Maybe even have the small version as a gift from the main story. With that the FC would have way less competition and maybe a lot more FC would have their own house..

Yet instead of doing something for it (a house is not apartment) they made it even worse by cutting down the prices..Its so easy to make gil in this game and now even a large house barely costs anything..There is still that little hope that maybe they learned something and will introduce instanced housing for Ishgard or maybe a nice instanced house in Idyllshire.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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Really they could have made apartments at least have a bedroom, living room and a kitchen or something.

Uh, isn't that why they give us partitions?
So we can make our own rooms...
It gives us the freedom to set up the rooms how we want them.


My apartment has a small bedroom, and a bathroom complete with walk in shower, and the rest is an entryway/hall and open area...


Haven't gotten around to really furnishing the open area yet though...

[Kahnom]

I have 2 houses,M-size Private and S-size FC.To be honest,One house is more than enough for me but since SE doesn't give me a choice to change from private estate to FC estate and I really really want to experience the airship contents so.. I have to buy another house... (my old FC ain't give me any autherized on workshop).

[Blackbird1]

They need to start setting limits one house per server and maybe one fc house if your the fc leader i heard of a guy on gilgamesh that actually owns an entire ward to himself all because he didn't want to share a ward with anyone. The timers on auto demo don't seem to work they said they restarted them but i'm willing to bet now that people know this they log into all their alts at least once a month the keep the polt then go back to their mains. Like come on SE set a restriction that forces people to give up their extra plots without trying to charge us 5 to 10 times the normal price just for them to give up the plot there are people who could actually make use of the housing for fc's or private if they role play