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

[Cylla]

2: FFXIV is the #2 biggest MMO in the world right now.( just behind WoW and there slowly falling). Other game that did it are lucky to see top 10 now a days.

Since when? Legion the biggest thing saving WoW at the moment and gaining players. So unless they screwed up something between last patch which was only a few weeks ago and now, WoW not falling, not even slowly.


Anyway, not the point of this thread though. As it been said before, if the problem could be fixed, they'd done it by now. SE went about this housing thing the wrong way and there really is no way to fix it unless they rework the whole housing system to be an instance, which they've already stated they won't do because they want people to interact in the housing area. Though why this was an excuse is beyond me because AION has done this perfectly fine and people can interact with each other outside housing/apartment buildings. Plus for them to go back and do this now, they'd most likely have to refund everyone their items and gil they paid for the houses when they got to remove them and make housing into an instance area. This would take their focus away from other important content and may take to much time.

We just have to wait it out... maybe in a few years everyone will be able to own a house.

[Niqote]

Saying you want it fixed, while providing no possible solutions or suggestions is not paving the way for a good thread discussion.

In my humble opinion, making it so you are account bound to ONE house is a step in the right direction. Allowing our alts to have automatic sharing rights to that one account bound house would be even better, sharing an inventory chest would be a dream but would be amazing also.

[Vaeria]

Well..if none of the above suggestions work..you COULD always...Log in on patch night..camp the login button, already have your character in your desired lot by your desired house and...buy it. Technically, SE did fix the problem with apartments, the only thing being you dont have a garden. Otherwise, you have all the options a house does. And while that hawt lil miqo would definitely have let you comb her more intimate furs if you had a house, at least, if you have a furnished apartment, she WILL still respect you. I mean, even though itd woulda been TWICE as much fun since a house has upstairs and downstairs and apartment has just ONE LITTLE room but..

K, I know ya ya..I'm going to hell. Sorry XD

[Maquiame]

I really don't see how and why one house per account is a big damn deal. Every other game gets this right. RIFT has had a much better housing system for YEARS. EQ2? Better housing, hell even ArcheAge has a better housing system now. There really is no excuse how people own multiple houses on their accounts. Why the hell does an alt need a house? Its a crappy system that -even- damn Wildstar got right.


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

[MistyMew]

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.

I would have to say its broke. Many games offer far more in the way of housing. Not only its availability, but far more creative in design. It makes this game not appear elite or modern, but backwards and ancient in design and out of touch.

The neighborhoods were a huge mistake and a complete waste of server space. Individual instanced would have been far better. Sadly op I don't have faith they will upgrade enough to ever offer housing to everyone . (not something they should be proud of tbh ) They should have copied Rift UI, CREATIVE player building in an instanced high item limit environment. Characters on the same account in Rift can own 10+ dimensions each!...no problem with availability OR owning multiple "homes". No one is left out. They found a way, SE needs to enter 2017 and adjust.

Housing here will always be extremely sub par unfortunately.

Will keep my fingers crossed for those still searching for a home.

[Pintsized]

Well, storm blood is coming with more housing so it's coming so it's something they are constantly working on. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's something they can just grant everyone.

Which is ironic when you realise that a game designed in 2000 and released in 2002 by the SAME COMPANY gives every LEVEL ONE character a FREE house that can be furnished the moment they spawn into the game.

[Dzian]

The problems with housing are:-

A: the stupid auto demolition system.
Tenants entering the estate should reset the timer. If the owner of the estate goes overseas or takes a break for a few months and can't log in till they get back it's crazy that they'll lose there house. especially when Yoshi said the game wouldn't have any systems that required you to login or have an active subscription. letting teneants reset the timer would at least help these people out.

B:- Auto demolition should be scrapped entirely maybe replace it with some kind of rental system with something like ventures. similar how mog lockers worked in XI trade in the imperial pieces to rent a locker for a week.

this would do 2 things. first it would allow players who are planning to take a short break the chance to trade in enough of these items to cover there plot for the next few months. and secondly it would ensure plots belonging to players that weren't like to come back at all would still be released once the rental expired. thus you wouldn't have plots that have been abandoned for years. and yet players who simply took a short break would know there house is safe when they return.

C:- Appartments would be better if they simply had a balcony area for outdoor furnishings like garden patches. the main reason I kept my house for so long was solely because I used the garden to grow stuff. the house itself was largely neglected. port in water the plants and port out. never even step in the door..

D: they need an in game legit way of trading and transferring plots. I know quite a few people that have houses they don't really want or use, but keep them only because they've dumped so much money into them and don't want to lose it.. transferring them also goes back to a where if my mates is about to go on a tour of duty overseas he could transfer his esate to me for the next couple of months to look after.

and E: tenants should reset the auto demolishion timer. i'm a shared teneant of a friends house. who is currently very sick and pretty much lives in hospital so no time to play. and at some point the plants I have growing in his garden might just disappear when the plot gets reclaimed despite me being there every day.....

Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.

Except XIV does if you're sub lapses for more than a month goodbye house..

Oh one more F:
I heard they'd be getting rid of the company crafting thingy where you need 4 people to advance projects. If they're doing that then they may as well add workshops to personal houses... be quite nice to have my own airships. instead of trying to grab the fcs ships when they're available and someone else hasn't sent them out.

[AutoWhit]

Honestly, until every game has housing like WildStar I will never be satisfied anyway, so whatever.

[SokiYagami]

You're right: it's not fair that some people have multiple houses on all of their alts. But, let's be real. Fixing that will do NOTHING to alleviate the fact that most players don't have houses. The number of plots opening up would be great, but as soon as they all sold out (almost immediately), you would all be right back here complaining that you still haven't had a chance to get a house.

Letting people have multiple houses is wrong, yes, but it's NOT what's keeping you from getting one. The extremely short supply is, and that's not something that SE did by accident. They want full houses to be very few in number. That's why their answer to housing complaints was apartments, not more plots.

Well technically what you said isn't entirely incorrect, but your argument is as weak as saying even without drink-driving, there will still be car accidents anyway, so there's no need to deal with the drink-driving issue.

Saying you want it fixed, while providing no possible solutions or suggestions is not paving the way for a good thread discussion.

In my humble opinion, making it so you are account bound to ONE house is a step in the right direction. Allowing our alts to have automatic sharing rights to that one account bound house would be even better, sharing an inventory chest would be a dream but would be amazing also.

This could really help out, I really wish they are considering how to implement it already.

[Enkidoh]

Which is ironic when you realise that a game designed in 2000 and released in 2002 by the SAME COMPANY gives every LEVEL ONE character a FREE house that can be furnished the moment they spawn into the game.

Except that is not actually the reason the player gets a 'free' house in FFXI at all - FFXI's Mog Houses were actually meant as a means of helping spread server load, by taking logged in players out of the main game world and into their own instanced area (this is why for so long players could not even invite another player into their Mog House, it would cause server stability problems, as well as why basic game features like changing a Job were restricted to only being accessible inside - being able to change furniture is also an incentive, it's all to try and encourage players to spend as much time in there as possible).

It was only when FFXI's player population dropped enough that SE decided that the server stability aspect was no longer required and so eased off on some of the restrictions (such as being allowed to invite others inside your Mog House if they are currently in a party with you).

Really, the basic functions of a Mog House are already granted to all FFXIV players anyway in the form of the Inn Room, the only real differences being you can't personalize the furniture (because it's, you know, an inn), and it becomes accessible upon completing the level 10 main scenario quest for your starting city and isn't just granted automatically. But everything else is pretty much the same.