How would the playerbase feel about buying a housing plot from the MogStation?

[Alleo]

I think I would be amenable to having a system to reserve a plot on the mog station with your gil. i.e. log in, system verifies you have the gil, then you register for an open plot and then actually go and buy it when you log in. Idk enough about how mogstation and player data interact to know if that's possible, but it would be an improvement over the mad free for all we have now.

It still would not change the fact that plots are really limited and that its first come first served. So instead of people rushing in to get a plot, they will rush to the website and maybe even crashing it. It has one advantage: People that are not home can try to get one, but this would mean that even more people would try it -> crash of the site and only the lucky ones get it again.

In the end this would be just another band-aid. We need a true solution where nothing like that is even necessary since anyone gets a house.

[Xdark93]

i think a better idea would be to add smaller wards to existing areas such as sea of clouds,ishgard, or dravanian hinterlands, etc. and unlike the larger wards these smaller wards would hold only 1 large, 2 meds, and 10 smalls. so essentially the concept would be "less is more". since wards are smaller this would cause less stress on the server. this in turn would also make it easier for them to add more wards to these smaller housing areas.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Only if it were account bound and all characters on it would share it, otherwise I'm not crazy about the idea at all.

[Dameron]

How about they just finally give us infinite housing instead?

With thouzands of players on a server, it's rediculous that only a hundred or so players can purchase a house.

[Emmanellain]

i think a better idea would be to add smaller wards to existing areas such as sea of clouds,ishgard, or dravanian hinterlands, etc. and unlike the larger wards these smaller wards would hold only 1 large, 2 meds, and 10 smalls. so essentially the concept would be "less is more". since wards are smaller this would cause less stress on the server. this in turn would also make it easier for them to add more wards to these smaller housing areas.

Would be a nice solution, makes me really wonder how their servers are put together in their serverfarm. Seeing how they've avoided housing like the plague since 2.0, but if its the sheer size of the wards that are a problem i'm sure most people at this point would be content with just a darn house to begin with. I mean having an airship and such IS a definite boost, and locking most of the playerbase out of such a boost due to lack of access is downright awful.

[liliths]

i think a better idea would be to add smaller wards to existing areas such as sea of clouds,ishgard, or dravanian hinterlands, etc. and unlike the larger wards these smaller wards would hold only 1 large, 2 meds, and 10 smalls. so essentially the concept would be "less is more". since wards are smaller this would cause less stress on the server. this in turn would also make it easier for them to add more wards to these smaller housing areas.

i only see this being more of a blood bath for housing, realy i can she any way of solving the housing issue without massively overhauling the system but then ya would have to overhaul gardening cause of the cross-breading witch means some recipes would have to be changed

[Mr_Gyactus]

Note: I'm not suggesting that people paying real life cash would get the existing plots, but that the funds coming from people purchasing a plot from the Mogstation could pay back the cost of making more wards and more server space and eventually overturn a good profit for SE.

No, because your sentence is FALSE.
S.E doesn't need another incoming for better hardware or add 12 more buttons in a GUI.

On the other hand you are correct, S E doesn't need the money from the wedding or additional retainers

Instead of adding unworthy money on the plate, I do exactly the opposite and give less.

This is not the time where a company can be greedy, this is the time where the customer is always right because it's full of qualified competitors.

[Kallera]

i think a better idea would be to add smaller wards to existing areas such as sea of clouds,ishgard, or dravanian hinterlands, etc. and unlike the larger wards these smaller wards would hold only 1 large, 2 meds, and 10 smalls. so essentially the concept would be "less is more". since wards are smaller this would cause less stress on the server. this in turn would also make it easier for them to add more wards to these smaller housing areas.

You mean provide even less of the pitiful solution they have been going with? I don't see where the more is coming from, especially on high population servers.

[KoshikiMurasaki]

If they provide it as last solution, I will buy it for my FC. I feel very hopeless about the system.

If they want money, name the price. I will throw money at their faces.

[Derceto]

I think you would genuinely have to have s**t for brains to throw more money at this company to give you something you should already be getting. What is it with Generation Stupid trying to solve everything by throwing more and more money at these sickeningly greedy companies? Unbelievable.

The only thing that bugs me, is that I'm stuck going along for the ride with this wave of stupidity.