Petition for more wards / instanced housing

[LanikMueller]

Housing & more to the point the lack of it is ridiculous. What happened today was a slap in the face to all the excited players. Who puts its availability up after a full maintenance? Idiots thats who. That makes it dumb luck if you can log in in time & get to a plot, it should have been done as a soft release a few hours after maintenance so that everyone could have gotten log'ed into the game. That would have at least been slightly fair. But what actually happened this morning was as the servers went back up the game launcher for many people glitched. Simply would not let people log in after clicking the log in button. It was several minuets before it allowed many of us to start loading the game. Then we had to deal with the log in queue that has always sucked. It took myself & many FC mates the better part of 12-15 min to log in & by then every single plot in all 4 residential zones was already sold. Do what you gotta do but add more wards. A LOT more. Consider this petition signed.

[ShamanNorris]

Hello everyone.
I have been waiting 3 years to get a Large house for my family.

I got enough gil to buy 2 large already and still cannot.. today my girlfriend, which also wanted this a lot, cried, and I don't even want to play the game anymore.

We did everything in our reach, pre downloaded patch, was up the second the servers were up, client lag, mindless rush and login queue destroyed it. I spent the next 3 hours asking people in tells if anyone wanted to sell theirs. But of course they will not.

We don't raid hardcore or such.
We don't want to feel special. We don't want to be those 2% hardcore players.
We just wanted to have a big house to fill with hundreds of stuff and have fun in game.
And no, apartments are not the same.

FF used to be a game to relax, but now it has been just stress and it's not a cheap game, so I pay to feel stressed.
I will unsub, and maybe come back one day.

-1 customer

[Enuma-Elish]

/signed
I can't tolerate this. Me and a couple of friends (who were/are total beginners) created a small fc and farmed money for the last half year for this, only to get overrun, mostly by people who already have a plot. I pay a sub to get fair and equal access to content. This system locks us out of gardening, air ships and more. This game might as well be f2p with a system like that.

[Sairys]

/signed

my fc wanted to get a house for the fc features and cause we knew that individually getting a house would be impossible

[Thritees]

Coming from SWTOR, by the time I quit I have fully decorated and unlocked the Yavin and Tatooine strongholds as well as having the guild ship for myself (as 50% of the cost was brought with my money, I was given the privilege to decorate it as I see fit). SWTOR is a F2P dying game and yet it does housing better than the supposedly No. 2 subscriber-based MMO in the world.

I still have my small house in LB so I'm not too salty, but the launch of 4.1 was simply atrocious. What is the point of delaying Shirogane launch when our chance of actually getting into the game at the time of launch was the same as passing Raubahn Savage? They did not learn from SB launch at all.

[missarielle]

My heart is breaking reading some of the posts in this thread.
I've been playing since 2.1 ... I was around back when there were empty plots for months even on Gilgamesh.. Balmung. Where a Free Company had to work for months together to afford the huge costs.
You listened to the cries of your customers then and you lessened the price. Still some people cried about having to have to be in a large group to get access (A free company) so you made it so individuals could buy one..
but now the game is popular and you're cursed with a product everyone wants.
There's so much hidden behind a Free Company both in gameplay value AND the sense of community-building having a company house provides.

I almost wish I had a 1000 houses to give to some of the people I've read about in this thread.

It's unfair to the new player. It's unfair to the new Free Company. It's just unfair.

If it was a prestige item it should reflect time put in, it should reflect achievement... not luck and ping.

[turkfish]

sounds good

[Desirai]

I'm not butt hurt over not getting a house, what I am mad about is the fact that people can own multiple houses. There are players/FCs that purchase as many plots as they can and then resell them to other players. This should not be allowed!

[Korrin]

/signed.

It's ridiculous that only 10% to 20% of players on a server can own a home due to scarcity.

[PrincessMarbleSays]

Signed! I’m down for this