Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

Originally Posted by Moxiesan

So,I want to say one of my favorite aspects of this game is housing,but I fear that it is inaccessible to most of the player base. So I'd like to take a moment to address some of aspects surrounding it. Given the amount of wards and houses per ward, there are only a total of 2,880 houses available in total on an entire server. It sounds like a lot, but in fact it's not. Since there are a total of 66 servers that means there are a total of 190,080 houses available. Definitely sounds like a lot, but let's consider the 6,000,000 or so subscribers. even if only half want a house, that is a total of roughly 7% of them being able to own a house, but wait there's more! Each Free Company can own a house as well, so that drastically dwindles that percentage since personal and free company housing shares potential plots. We aren't even taking into consideration the demands for large vs small housing etc. I think that it's a huge problem on these servers, and especially on my server (Mateus) where one couple owns over 20 houses by themselves. Yes I know there is a limit of 1 per character and 1 per free company, but they leveled up multiple characters and made multiple free companies to bypass this.

So basically what I would like to know is how are you considering on making this content more widely available?

There are a few solutions comes to mind which I will outline below:
1. Add more wards. On the bright side, it's easy to do because the system is already in place. However, you still run into its limiting factor.
2. Redo the housing. I hear in FF11 there were a few houses you could buy, but they were instanced out, so any amount of them could be purchased. This is the best idea because then any player can have access to it. The only problem is I know it will take more storage data, but it's a good thing storage is cheap.
3. Severely limit house ownership to Freecompany only wards and account restrictions. While this could help a little, people will still find a way around these restrictions.

Please address the housing issue. My family and I left for 3 years and returned to be disheartened that this oversight had still not been addressed. I hope that there is some way to fix it, which I hope #2 is the part that is selected.

Thank you for your time.

My whole FC moves to a small pop server from one of the large population servers (because SE seemed to want us to do this and we were all for escaping the que lines). We busted our butts to get fund together for housing and had high hopes that finally we were somewhere we could own a FC house. My Company has been together from back when 2.0 relaunched and we've never been able to own a house.. It wasn't even from being picky it was from the seer fact we were on a Highly populated server. Even with the server change it is not looking in our favor to get a company house. Sure I understand that populations on a server will change and with free transfers it was bound to happen. But being unable to get a house at the very least a free company house locks out a lot of content that my company was looking forward to.

Shoot some were just looking forward to being able to color their chocobos finally or get past level 10 without spending all the gil they had saved up. Not to mention the airship only missions and garden plots. It wasn't till recently I learned that apartments were limited as well.. I thought they were put in place to make up for the lack of housing plots. I'm saddened that the housing hasn't really changed or the main issues haven't been addressed in all the years the system has been out. I can't even use the excuse that the game cannot afford the servers to host more housing with the game being in a great state at the moment and I think being the 2nd most popular mmo on the market to date.

I also agree with account locking houses.. it's no excuse for one person to hoard that many homes. Let alone not even put them to good use! I visited the ward that is owned by a couple of accounts. They all look the same and most of them are locked and have a handful of decorations if that to them.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Heartnet

Susano Extreme, Lahshmi Extreme

These are ment to be hard that is the whole point of extreme content, ie NOT a faceroll

Originally Posted by Wolf_Heartnet

Omega raid, Royal Managerie

These are hard but are still posible with a random since I have done these myself with random parties and i'm not even close to extreme raid skill level

Thank you so much for the PvP changes!
Any chance we can see more stats being tracked, and put into our pvp profile? Right now we have stats at the end of a match, it would be awesome to have these stats and more as apart of our character, so we can see our KDA (Kills/Deaths/Assists) and more.

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Outside of PvP, it would be awesome if we could see even more stats about our characters as well, (I love baseball, so I'm a big fan of random stats in games)

Thanks so much!!!