Suggestions: Housing wait list

[Loirine]

Returned player here! I hadn't managed to get housing since I first played but it seems like the situation is still the same, even with the new apartments. It would be nice to have some sort of waiting list to give people at least some form of a chance to buy a place because I do feel like I'm missing out a bit.

Currently, the most viable way right now is to pay people to relinquish their houses and hope that no one else takes the plot before you do. Kinda risky and also requires quite a bit of gil and trust.

EDIT: Yes, obviously having more houses fixes the problem, but if the housing situation isn't going to change much, I'd rather have a waiting list than nothing at all.

[coco1851]

I for 1 am sick of this housing situation as well my husband & I left the game as well expecting it to be better when we came back & nope. It baffles me how a company that has billions of yen in revenue for entertainment has this kind of housing problems. No other mmo I've seen has these issues. After missing a house after months of searching several times daily, all wards, spending Gil to travel to each of these places over a dang aetherite shard because square doesn't tell you anything you need to know about housing. Devs no longer responding to support tickets for any issue much less in a timely fashion, I had to spend 1 mil for my husband & I to get an apartment that we honestly just settled on because we don't want to be apart of that rat race any longer. That we can't invite just friends into, gotta have the door open to public to allow anyone in, can't use their hired people when visiting, etc. I do feel as though you should elaborate more though. Housing wait list sounds good to me but on what terms? Whoever signs up for 1 in order? Since it's 'supposedly' an end gamers privilege: based off how long you've been subbed? New housing is coming but what's the likelihood of landing one ya know?

[Penthea]

Waiting lists wouldn't fix the housing issue. In fact they would make it worse because you would have to be lucky enough for a plot to become free, have the money AND be first in the waiting list. Never mind how long that list would be. You could be on it for YEARS before you're first in line. At least now if you have the cash and you're the first to spot a free plot, you can go get it.

SE either need to add at least ten times the amount of wards there are now or do a complete overhaul of the housing system. The amount of plots available per player on even the least populated servers is appalling.

[coco1851]

Waiting lists wouldn't fix the housing issue. In fact they would make it worse because you would have to be lucky enough for a plot to become free, have the money AND be first in the waiting list. Never mind how long that list would be. (snip).

Let me guess, you or your fc has housing right? Perhaps if you don't like this suggestion you come up with real solutions to all the housing problems. No I don't think this idea wouldn't fix the entire problem but it's a start. Which is why I asked under what terms. Also if I remember correctly that is yoshi said some time ago houses were meant for end gamers not everyone but yet I see people with green leafs by their name with housing & I see end gamers with no housing. Its no wonder nothing has been fixed with housing when everyone in these forums just disagree's with each other & nothing gets resolved, smh.

[Dustytome]

Let me guess, you or your fc has housing right? Perhaps if you don't like this suggestion you come up with real solutions to all the housing problems. No I don't think this idea wouldn't fix the entire problem but it's a start. Which is why I asked under what terms. Also if I remember correctly that is yoshi said some time ago houses were meant for end gamers not everyone but yet I see people with green leafs by their name with housing & I see end gamers with no housing. Its no wonder nothing has been fixed with housing when everyone in these forums just disagree's with each other & nothing gets resolved, smh.

There have been plenty of suggestions across multiple threads in this forum. No need to get hostile over it. I can see where the suggestion comes from, however I can also see some problems with it. How long when a house becomes available does the list wait for the person who's at the top to claim it? Does the list account for choice of location, size, preferred plot? How does the upcoming move function interact with the list? The list seems fair, but anyone that doesn't get on it the first day likely will never have a chance at seeing a house. Imagine being 12,384 in line and after months of waiting check to see you're 12205 in line, that's discouraging.

[Vidu]

Also if I remember correctly that is yoshi said some time ago houses were meant for end gamers not everyone but yet I see people with green leafs by their name with housing & I see end gamers with no housing. Its no wonder nothing has been fixed with housing when everyone in these forums just disagree's with each other & nothing gets resolved, smh.

The reason for this is inflation. They never adjusted the housing prices after introducing housing to the game but since then gil has lost more and more value. My FC bought a middle-sized house about three months after they release housing. We had pretty much free choice of ward and plot (and actually ruled three wards out because they were empty and we wanted neighbours). Me and my friend spend those three months crafting 3-4 hours each day. When an item sold for more than 40k it was amazing. Today I wouldnt even put up something for that price because its not worth it.
The game added more and more means for people to earn gil, even without endgame-crafting, that its really no surprise that someone with a leaf has the 3-4 million to buy a small house. That someone with a leaf was able to get a house but someone whos at endgame did not most likely shows were the dedication of those two people are...

If you're asking me: They need to adjust the prices of the houses to reflect the current value of gil in the game - 20 million for a small house would make it more endgame again. But I guess a lot of people would be upset about that too...

[Penthea]

Let me guess, you or your fc has housing right? Perhaps if you don't like this suggestion you come up with real solutions to all the housing problems. No I don't think this idea wouldn't fix the entire problem but it's a start.

Everyone I know who has a house, fc or personal, has it because there was no waiting list. They had the cash, were at the right place right time, and got the plot. It's a horrible system and I utterly despise it. OP's suggestion just adds another layer of unfairness to it. I don't disagree with it because I have a house, I disagree with it because it's an awful suggestion. It does nothing to fix the actual issue: there aren't enough houses.

Also maybe you should read my entire post because I did suggest something, although not in detail.

[Besame]

I have been playing about 11 months. About 6 months ago, I was able to buy a small house for 5 mil. Then I recently demolished it and bought a medium after about a month of constantly keeping watch on the plots. I am not on a huge server so I imagine that helps. I suggest perhaps changing to a smaller server if you are into housing. Unfortunately, this cheesy game doesn't allow you to take your house with you upon moving. First MMO I have played that is a bad.

[ryouma17]

RuneScape has been around since 2001 and they have enough houses for every player, and their just a tiny company why cant square put enough houses for all players

[Loirine]

You're right that we don't have enough housing. However, some of us can't be on 24/7 to check for a house to pop up. When I'm on, I check every hour that I can to find something, but no such luck. So what chance do I have of getting a house without a waiting list and no new houses any time soon? Of course, if SE decide to make a lot more houses, this won't be needed, but I'd rather have this than nothing.

Everyone I know who has a house, fc or personal, has it because there was no waiting list. They had the cash, were at the right place right time, and got the plot. It's a horrible system and I utterly despise it. OP's suggestion just adds another layer of unfairness to it. I don't disagree with it because I have a house, I disagree with it because it's an awful suggestion. It does nothing to fix the actual issue: there aren't enough houses.

Also maybe you should read my entire post because I did suggest something, although not in detail.