More Housing Wards: Should SE reallocate their funds and invest more into housing?

[Senn]

Having more residential wards would be nice, but SE would need to invest more into servers to increase the amount of wards we have, right? What areas of the game, if any, do you think they should pull funding from to give us more wards?

[Dustytome]

My vote is the mogstation sales.

[Sylfaein]

But I <3 the Mogstation. T_T

[Shougun]

My vote is the mogstation sales.

Extremely leery of this as I'm afraid you give a yard and they take a mile, but if they could make a void house DLC thing I'd pay for that. But they really need to not be yanking people's chain like the $30 mog mount, that's half CE expansion price for like 1/1000000000th the content.. XD


I would be okay with housing expansion if it was actually reasonable. They need to look at their best competitors and if they can learn and improve, that'd be sexy. If they don't want to then please don't be putting the future into the mog station and be calling it "fixed" lol.

SE has the graphics and style to pull from, I easily see them having the best system if they wanted it. . . would love to see it happen. Hopefully if they put in the effort the players reward them though. That would be costly and if it fails, I'd feel bad >.<;

[Dustytome]

Oh don't misunderstand me , I don't mean put housing in the mogstation! I mean use the sales from what they have in the mogstation to fund it. Just shove a bunch of exclusive cute stuff in there and print out more money. They've already talked about putting a krile outfit in there and an exclusive flying umbrella mount. I'm sure either one of those could probably self-fund housing.

[Senn]

I would be okay with housing expansion if it was actually reasonable.

What do you mean by a housing expansion?

[Shougun]

Oh don't misunderstand me , I don't mean put housing in the mogstation! I mean use the sales from what they have in the mogstation to fund it. Just shove a bunch of exclusive cute stuff in there and print out more money. They've already talked about putting a krile outfit in there and an exclusive flying umbrella mount. I'm sure either one of those could probably self-fund housing.

Ohhhhh, Gotcha :P. I prefer all "suitable for mogstation" content be available in game first, so Krile going straight to Mogstation is pretty meh to me but if they were like "and this will lead to us making the housing system not hoover vacuum storm" I'd feel better I guess lol. By suitable I mean for example an expansion is justified extra by the fact it's separate of a regular scheduled patch and supplies a lot of content at once (it's value is much higher). I get that things aren't free and it's not just Yoshida sitting with all the money without a boss who watches him lol, but hope they can stay respectful (90% of mobile games I see are hilariously shady, "20$ for 10 minutes worth of speed ups! 10% off!!!!!!" -_-. I find the moving all event content to the mogstation after shown in game is extremely reasonable, even though the prices are a bit high the fact they were in game first makes it quite okay to me.

I wonder how much the event items make once up, like over time their projected earnings - if they pay for the cost to develop themselves (I assume yes, but curious how quickly). Perhaps some tweaks to how alts work might encourage more people to go standard account, and if they slowly add character creator additions they might be able to turn Fantasia and name changing purchases as well. Make sure to alternate which race gets the new change too, unfortunately probably focusing on major races lol. You'll get people to switch races every patch XD.

What do you mean by a housing expansion?

A LONG time ago they mentioned content developed specifically for housing, and said something about expansions. They also were talking about things like towers and facilities giving bonuses to FC members and all these big game ideas, a bit like how WoW's garrison works is how it sounded actually. (WoW garrison, you build a blacksmith and you get x y z bonuses, upgraded, make a fisher hut, all this stuff - less visual customization than a housing system though).

So what I mean is if they made instead of Stormblood expansion, which is just general game content, they made like a DLC/Housing expansion. Comes with it's own quests, interesting mechanics, fixes to the system where need be, highly competitive to other MMo's offered housing system, and of course a guaranteed housing reward. Better than FFXI's DLC but I guess akin to that. Just like a regular expansion many of the features could bleed into the normal game too.

I personally think they'd have to be careful how they do it (money/reception concerns) BUT, I firmly believe that if SE had a wildstar system and then added their own creative vision to it - that it would be amazing. People can also reference and think about Rift which had /some/ interesting ideas. Like in wildstar you can pick your skybox, but here for example perhaps you can pick a skeleton airship as your "area" to work with, or a limsa island.

Since beginning I was imaging like a FC with a pirate sky base as we see in the Ark questline in FFXIV, or with millions of gil they build their own mini garlean battlecruiser - these things SE missed (imo) and I get this stuff is EXPENSIVE (for them) so they need money reasons to get it done.. but man, I think it could be grand.

[Risvertasashi]

No.

The system they've setup is a fool's errand. MMO population numbers mean there will never be enough.

If they're going to do anything, they should redesign the system and actually make it scalable this time.

[Dustytome]

I prefer all "suitable for mogstation" content be available in game first, so Krile going straight to Mogstation is pretty meh to me but if they were like "and this will lead to us making the housing system not hoover vacuum storm" I'd feel better I guess lol.

I much prefer that too. I had a lengthy rant about it after this but I'll wipe that out and just state that the exclusives in the mogstation do not make me a happy customer, but they have enough that pay them so they don't have to care. When people start voting the other way with their wallets (ie never) they will.

[Senn]

My vote is the mogstation sales.

So basically, you're saying the money they make from the mogstation should be used to increase the number of wards, right? I like this idea.