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

[LineageRazor]

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.

This sounds like an urban legend to me. While technically possible, I seriously doubt that it is true.

In fact, the whole deal with alts buying up multiple houses is, I think, a lot less common than people assume. I'm guessing that if they did implement the whole one-house-per-account thing, only a bare handful of houses would be reclaimed. They SHOULD still do it - I mean, come on, no single person should own more than one house when housing is such a limited commodity - but it's far from a solution to the problem.

The neighborhoods were a huge mistake and a complete waste of server space. Individual instanced would have been far better.

I disagree with this. Neighborhoods are the goal games should strive toward. Players should be able to walk around and admire people's houses, not select them from a list and be transported there. Instanced homes are all but pointless. I had an instanced home in FFXI, and never felt any real desire to furnish it and pretty it up. After all, I was the only one that could see it - and even when they added the ability to invite others into your home years later, there still wasn't much point as the only folks you'd be inviting were friends, so only a bare handful would ever see it.

The issue here is that SE's goals were too ambitious, not that they were wrong. They didn't have the infrastructure to support a neighborhood system, and still don't. That's what they need to fix. And if you're fine with instanced housing, well, we HAVE that, now - apartments are plentiful, and to my knowledge even on the most densely populated servers there are still available to purchase.

[LaylaTsarra]

This sounds like an urban legend to me. While technically possible, I seriously doubt that it is true.

The most anyone can have on one server is 8 characters. Even with those fully leveled you wouldn't be able to buy an entire ward.

[Maquiame]

The most anyone can have on one server is 8 characters. Even with those fully leveled you wouldn't be able to buy an entire ward.

You can if you multibox

[Stormfur]

He probably has multiple versions of the game (like perhaps he bought 3 of them on sale when the refer-a-friend for the Twintania mount was out), so he would have 24 potential characters on one server. Crazy to pay for 3 subs like that but I guess it's theoretically possible?

I think they should reorganize the system. Make FC houses be in a separate ward -- I mean, you can't force people to move, obviously, but make it super enticing for them to want to. I know SE was working on a system where you could move your entire house to another area. And there are still some closed-off areas like in Gridania (for elites) - so perhaps this is still in development.

[Lexia]

Seriously what the hell? They better turn those PS3 servers into Housing servers.

There no dedicated servers for PS3, all players play on the same servers regardless what system they on.

[SendohJin]

You can if you multibox

There's no way to limit someone who is willing to pay multiple subs.

Housing Wards is a great idea, the communal factor is important, what's dumb was mixing personal and FC houses to the extent that they did. personal houses should never be allowed to be built on L and M plots. those should've been reserved for FCs.