PS4 players and Shirogane

[Lambdafish]

You should also not be forced to align your work schedule with an ingame patch. There are other ways, for example bring them up at different times on different data centers. Or even better, five everyone the ability to own a house by making it instanced or add more wards.
And before any of you jump at me and call me salty: yes I'm EU, no I'm not going for a Shirogane house, I'm not moving from Mist.

It will always inconvenience someone. The current setup is there to least inconvenience the devs work schedule. I'd rather the devs aren't forced to work in the middle of the night just so a different part of the world can get a better chance at a house.

[Beckett]

You should also not be forced to align your work schedule with an ingame patch.

Then you would have the people who work different schedules shouting that the patch didn't fit their schedule.

Complaints about the general lack of housing compared to the demand will never not be warranted, though.

[silverlunarfox]

Outside of an active subscription and having the gil on your character, no one should not be spending any more real money on SSD's and the such. It is not incumbent upon the player base to have to go through so many loops and hurdles, this is something the developers of this game needs to fix by making enough wards to meet the demand. It is utter garbage that people have accepted this method of thinking rather than push on SE to do right by their paying customers. Currently on the dev tracker their popular thread (that is being expedited to the dev team) is DYEABLE GEAR and not additional Housing Wards. Why you ask? Well you need to ask SE why DYEABLE GEAR is such a high priority vs. housing.

Housing is optional and not critical to the game itself. That will never change in SE's eyes. It's why they are bringing in even more apartments.

That being said SSD's are amazing and highly recommended for consoles in general. The difference is staggering.

You should also not be forced to align your work schedule with an ingame patch. There are other ways, for example bring them up at different times on different data centers. Or even better, five everyone the ability to own a house by making it instanced or add more wards.
And before any of you jump at me and call me salty: yes I'm EU, no I'm not going for a Shirogane house, I'm not moving from Mist.

It's a game. They don't care about your work schedule. You play when you can, the game will be waiting.

I'm not worried about the SSD thing (a lot of PC users are still on HDDs while a lot of PS4 users upgraded anyway) but the persistent (and random-seeming) DNS issue which screws up the connection on PSN on patch days is a worry. I'm going to have my mobile connection ready in case I need to switch over quickly without playing trial and error with the PS4's DNS settings.



No, some of us went to the trouble of taking a day off work because we wanted a house. And a lot of people work different hours to you. Honestly, there are options.

I took the day off. not just the house, but to die repeatedly in the first 24 man runs.

Change your router settings to a different DNS. I switched to google DNS servers and never had an issue since.

[Aldotsk]

Housing is optional and not critical to the game itself. That will never change in SE's eyes. It's why they are bringing in even more apartments.

Apartment is not going to solve housing.

[silverlunarfox]

Apartment is not going to solve housing.

Of course its not. I never said it would. But its also not their priority.

[Aldotsk]

Of course its not. I never said it would. But its also not their priority.

It's okay. 4.1 was kind of a dead point patch honestly besides 24 man raid. Which seems like a way to make people play more. And PVP is becoming more MOBA style which makes no sense. Now we are playing League of Legends in 3rd person view. Lastly, one Expert dungeon seems pointless as well as swimming in housing seems not a priority but they did it anyways. Kind of interesting how they didn't prepare enough like launch of 4.0

[Lelila38]

Honestly all this wouldn't be an issue if they finally acknowledged housing is broken and they can never meet the demand. Put them all in instances and let everyone gave access to their own house.
As long as I can have my friends enter my little instances plot, I'd be fine. And I'm someone who's always really liked the wards, but it's just not feasible in a game of that scale.

[Maero]

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Yes and when PS3 was part of the game i recall certain features not being added as to not give PC players the advantage over the console crowd and yet here we are again... lol

[Terkhev]

You should also not be forced to align your work schedule with an ingame patch. There are other ways, for example bring them up at different times on different data centers. Or even better, five everyone the ability to own a house by making it instanced or add more wards.
And before any of you jump at me and call me salty: yes I'm EU, no I'm not going for a Shirogane house, I'm not moving from Mist.

In this single case they add new housing zone. In every other people would cry that they lose playtime because of patch in prime time. Doing updates when most people don't play the game is normal.