Petition for more wards / instanced housing

[missarielle]

If y'all got a house you wouldn't even be bothering with this housing sjw stuff. Lol so transparent.

Social Justice Warrior? I believe you are misusing the term. This is a fervent request from the game's community to make content more available to meet the demand of its player base. We're asking that everyone have the opportunity to access all the aspects of the game and not limit it to the minority.
Individuals have access to Apartments/Personal Houses/Private Rms with the EXACT SAME functionality (aside from items/space for decorating) whereas a Free Company needs a house for access to Workshops, Airships and Private Rooms.

There is no real "social justice" cause here. This is us trying to express our interest so that the game developers will be able to justify the resources and economics of developing more housing solutions. That this topic MATTERS to us. That it is worth their resources to up supply to meet demand.

[Jestor88]

i tried to share this post in reddit only to get down-voted to oblivion anyone want to help me share the word there that this thread existes?

[Alexeia21]

Signed.

I was really looking forward to the mansion in Shirogane but /everything/ on the server was gone within like 10 minutes.

[KelesK]

So.. it's only a valid issue when it happens to Japanese players? Because that seems to be the case, despite over 50% of the revenue for this game coming from outside Japan.

Ironically it is only a problem when the JP population gets upset. Until that point it goes ignored. Pretty common knowledge I thought.

[Kalitzo]

So.. it's only a valid issue when it happens to Japanese players? Because that seems to be the case, despite over 50% of the revenue for this game coming from outside Japan.

Sorry I thought it was a pretty well known thing. I stand corrected.

[Myscha]

Signed.

Even on a "small" server as Lich, all the plots was bought in 10min.

[EUSerena]

Signed.

I owned houses (large, mid, small), and I still DON'T see any point in having NOT instanced zones. (Not on my current server, but the previous one.)
Server resources? Quit joking around. The whole server resource thing is just a lame excuse. Yoshi stated several times that the lack of instances is simply his fetish.

SE reminds me of a person with a heavy case of schizophrenia. They hate RMT and traders. But they don't sell gold, and they do this with houses too. All of these simply promotes RMT, gold selling/buying, backstabbing/scamming.
So what are we even talking about?
THEY promote bad behavior and sellers.

Ps.:
- Having instances will not eliminate "uniqueness" of houses. You can easily see who spent more money, time and effort on his/her house.
- Just because you have more houses, that won't mean people won't visit. No one visits other houses now without reason. People visit their own, friends or FC houses. This would not change one bit.
- Most plots that are purchased are simply resold or kept empty. If you visit a housing zone even on a Legacy server - it's just empty plots. WOW, SO UNIQUE! \o/
- Adding instances would get rid of scammers / re-sellers and also kick the people who bought them up by the dozen in the balls.
- Claiming this rarity makes housing unique is silly. Almost all bots you can get for FFXIV have teleport hacks. You could whip up a code that teleports into a zone and buys a house within hours. So what are we really talking about?
- I was on LiquidSky at launch using a Pro package. It's basically a server and has 1gbps solid connection. I know how networks work, but still - network speed or delay wise - I was #1. Yet I managed to land in the world server crash and then it was all sold out. I was like 1 minute late and it was _all_ sold out. All.

Bottom line - and yeah I said this already - this practice only protects the RMT people, bad behavior, and resellers. Not seeing much point in it.

[Tsilyi]

i'll sign it.

[Ladrius]

/signed.
If I didn't cancel after each three-month payment, I would be cancelling today. This was it for me - I love Ivalice, but it'd never be the real Ivalice in the game. Main Scenario quests aren't a huge deal when I normally wait to do them in the final patch, as I'm not a Savage raider. I was excited to have a chance at a house. It's something I always enjoy in these games, but FC rooms and apartments are too small and lack the options a house has. I'm bad at making gil, but I finally had enough for a Medium plot, and I didn't even get a chance to do the rat race because of a version check error. If I can't do the thing I was excited to do, then I don't see much of a reason to play once my remaining time runs out. The bottom line is that I pay a sub for this game, and there's part of the game I can't do and likely never will get to do because of limited resources imposed by the development team.

Edit: Additionally, the lack of this is hurting the game for everyone, because RMT has increased dramatically over housing. There's some talk on reddit and elsewhere about how the price of gil has basically doubled; it's almost like the scarcity of housing has led many people to purchase gil because they needed it to get a house today or likely miss it forever.

More houses SE.

[Tridus]

If y'all got a house you wouldn't even be bothering with this housing sjw stuff. Lol so transparent.

I got a house, and I'm still here. It's a terrible system.

Nice try, troll boy.