How many people have multiple houses?

[Ametrine]

I'm with Niqote.

The only reason this is suddenly noticed is these "dead" servers are getting an influx of players. So, savvy players who, in the playground that is FFXIV, had the option to buy plots and focus on housing on these tiny servers.

This is literally why apartments exist.

Supply and demand, y'all.

[Rhysati]

That is absolutely disgusting. There is zero reason anyone should need or be able to buy any more than one personal house per server. And SE really needs to put limits on that, soon. These guys are just an example, there are others that buy up property en masse like that to gain a monopoly on house sales, something that fills me with dread thinking about the second Shirogane opens up.
In their case I see it as less 'we want to live in quiet' and more 'look how much more money we have than you, lolol'. It's pretty clear to me they're only doing it to anger people, and they definitely succeeded.

I have a reason that I want to small ones. I roleplay two characters who each have families. I want to have a house for both of them and both would get heavy usage rather than just being a place that sits there and does nothing for most people that have one.

[Aeeninwen_Taldel]

That is pretty disgusting. They shouldn't be surprised that people are upset with them. There is literally no need for that many homes. If it's an alt issue, I'm sure you can easily house 8 characters in 1 or 2 large houses.

Though, on the other hand, no one should be harassing them. This might open SE eyes a little bit more, and might get them to address the real issue.

[Scenic]

As someone who wants to eventually own a house, this makes me sad.
I don't understand why there isn't a limit on the amount of properties you can own.
It is very discouraging to new players if people who are sitting on large amounts of gil can just buy up every house that becomes available.

*edit: Just wanted to add that there is a limit but it's per a character not per account. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Strywin]

I too would love to have multiple homes. I have the gil to buy probably 6 smalls homes but I won't because I know how limited housing is and I'm not going to lock out FC' just so I can RP in em. Apartments is not a fix to housing imo, they're just expensive FC rooms & FC can hold more room instances than 1 apartment alone.

[Azper]

How is this possible? I thought it already was only possible to have one personal house and one FC house.

[kattzkitti]

How is this possible? I thought it already was only possible to have one personal house and one FC house.

Per character. These people use the full eight character slots on the server to secure two properties each.

[Draxxion]

(Part about instanced house)

I am with you on the instanced house. It would make the house more personal and give a player a goal to work towards in addition of the other gosls in this game. Downside is it would probably be more restrictive on what you can do and place in your house as well as who could see it. Would feel less like a community though. I do actually like walking around and seeing everyones yards and get ideas from that.

[NewSinz]

Really SE needs to invest in more servers for housing and add some more wards as needed. Also Its pretty rare that people own this many. I have seen FC buy a FC house and then its members buy up houses around it. Ultros had a couple wards that are basically owned by one FC. At least they used too not sure anymore...

Edit:

Actually something I was thinking about the other day is. Lots of new players are coming over to FFXIV from other MMO's. Lots of old players returning as well. This was a successful expansion in those terms. But is SE ready to handle that many people? Servers having issues, congestion etc etc leads me to think that maybe they aren't ready for the influx of new players.

[Anova]

Kotaku isn't exactly known for their quality journalism, and their interview of the players in question seems rather one-sided, so I would take everything in that article with a certain grain of salt.

That said, I personally think 28 houses is excessive, even if it is split between 2 players. They do good house designs though and I wouldn't mind seeing their work as part of a public or even if they hired themselves out as contractors and interior designers for other players; but that is a more personal reaction to their work and not to the situation.

As for the fact that housing is limited and is causing rampant inflation on popular servers, it is a strictly supply problem and the fault lies entirely with SE. The fact that players are asking for 50m gil to abandon their land says something about the demand and the lack of supply. A big problem with it is how SE decided to implement the housing, as neighborhoods instead of instances. This makes it incredibly taxing on the system as the neighborhoods themselves are entire zones, and the data allocation gets difficult extremely easily because every new patch adds new items that players use to decorate. There's no way for SE to handle this except to overhaul the system.

Philosophically, it's objectionable for 2 players to own 28 houses on a single server, but considering the land was laying there for months and months on an unpopular server, it's not unreasonable to think it was okay to use the land if you wanted; especially since those players had no idea SE would launch a server migration event and their server had plenty of land available. The majority of people complaining are players who migrated to the server for the new adventurer and 1mil gil reward. I'm not saying these players don't have a right to complain, but it's not wholly unexpected for housing to already be taken on older servers.