Housing: there has to be a better way

[Bourne_Endeavor]

The issue is housing itself is rare and expensive. And a status symbol. Instanced houses would ruin both the community of having neighborhoods and the specialness of the housing itself.

No one cares about "specialness." That's an absurd stance to take for a feature the vast majority of players are denied because SE won't embrace instanced housing. Who cares if the community aspect is "ruined"? The wards are usually dead.

[HyoMinPark]

The issue is housing itself is rare and expensive. And a status symbol. Instanced houses would ruin both the community of having neighborhoods and the specialness of the housing itself.

It doesn’t matter. This system is broken. Quite frankly, I don’t really care if people want to feel “special” owning a house—I would rather everyone have equal chances to own one. And, as it stands, that is not the case. And it doesn’t even have anything to do with costs of the housing. Can’t log in at zero hour on a day like this for housing? Too bad. Don’t run on an SSD and things load too slowly? Too bad. Number #736 in a queue on a populated server? Don’t even try. The only way to really get a house in this game is to get lucky, or to “illegally” purchase one from a house flipper.

Like other posters have said before, the “neighborhoods” on most servers are completely dead. I rarely see anyone in mine, and I have owned a house in The Beds for several months now. The houses around me may have pretty yards, but they are more or less a ghost town. Instanced housing is the better option to make housing more fair for everyone. Really, everyone should be able to own a house, and instanced housing is the only way to guarantee that. Seeing the issues so many people are having just trying to get the servers to download he Patch right now, this game’s servers could not handle any more wards; I’m thoroughly convinced the infrastructure and hardware is horribly dated.

[Azurymber]

So today morning, I managed to get 500 in queue. When I got on, every single large house had been bought already, and there were a few mediums left that got bought up faster than I could run to them. It's pretty obvious the supply is far lower than the demand.

And unsurprisingly Larges are selling for 450mil on reddit already.

[SanyaTsukiko]

They should make the apartments a 2 floor instanced apartment with a veranda where you can do some gardening, with a spectacular view. You can f.ex choose how the verandadoor should look, the windows etc. Let the FC rooms be like they are, but buff up the apartments, maybe even make them more expensive. They will be worth it then.

[Aveline_V]

There may just be a better way soon!
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...g-in-Patch-4.1

Hey it's a start

[SanyaTsukiko]

The only way to really get a house in this game is to get lucky, or to “illegally” purchase one from a house flipper.

No, it's not the only way, at least not for a good organized FC. You can save up a lot of cash in the FC, or have one person craft tons, rest farm, sell a lot of stuff, have like at least 4-5 ppl rushing a ward each, everyone with enough money in their bags. Cause chance is, some ppl will have trouble logging in, some will not. You're upping the chances a lot if you do it that way. That's what we did, and now we got a mansion. We prepared well for the race. I understand that isn't a comfort, and I am sad for the ppl who didn't get a house, but it is a race after all, although it shouldn't need to be, since we all pay sub and want to have fun in all aspects of the game. But we KNEW it was gonna be hard to get a house, so we armed up. They need to be a rank that can purchase plots for the FC too ofc. Teamspeak or discord helps too.