Shirogane

[Elizar_Naki]

I don't get what I did wrong here. I generally have no interest in housing in MMOs; Shirogane was different, both for my personal aesthetic tastes and for my character's headcanon origins. I scrimped and saved for months to gather up the gil I'd need to buy a medium plot for my wife (in-game and IRL) and me. I woke up early, patched in plenty of time, logged in as quickly as I could...only to run into a queue of 1248 people (yes, I remember the specific number), at which point I knew I was boned. I did everything right, and yet people with better computers and more money than me (in-game and IRL) were somehow more "deserving" than me. The kicker is that many of those people only bought the plots they did to resell, making even more money for themselves while those of us who actually wanted the house to use have to scrimp and save and pay even more (which, in the meantime, technically violates ToS if SE decides to randomly pay attention, so we're now risking our accounts if we do) instead of SE actually doing something with the housing system to guarantee that everyone who wants a house can get one--SWTOR managed that years ago, and that game sucks compared to this. Kicker #2: because they introduced relocation at the same time as Shirogane (rather than spacing them out like they originally said they were doing), a lot of the competition also came from people who already had houses and just wanted a change of scenery.

But whatever, I guess. The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor. Can't even get away from that in my escapist fun time, apparently. Also inb4 the trolls who'll just reply to this to try and tick me off more; I know better than to expect sympathy from MMO forum-goers at this point, and I have no intention of checking back to see where this goes. Vent over; have fun, y'all.

[AstroZombie]

I am extremely sour about this and I will blacklist even friends I have had for years if the my even dare mention they got a house, it’s that bad.

I'm upset too man but you sound like a lame petty person if you would be mad instead of happy for your friends. I got diddly and one of my buddies got a large, I was overjoyed for them.

[Kyuuki_Chan]

After 3 min, all house have gone on Ragnarok !
Just madness !

[ElonMuskForPrez]

They should have made it an auction at least to make it the biggest gil sink ever.

Why can't they make 240 more plots for FC only

[Clint_Beastwood]

Hyperion fully sold out within minutes.

Like a lot of you, I was at the ready with password typed into the launcher, soon as 0300 rolled over, I logged in, got to character selection screen, as soon as I tried to log in, "You have been disconnected from server."

Log back in 2 minutes later due to delayed launcher, 979 in queue.

I agree though, Large and medium sized houses should be FC only, at least for awhile, with smalls being purchasable by FCs or individuals. 1 person buying a large house just for shits and giggles potentially asses out several dozen people in an FC that could have all had said house.

If SE isn't going to release enough houses in the first place, they least they could do is restrict housing purchases to something that makes sense.

I expect to see quite a bit of backlash over this. Maybe Yoshi will get his shit together.

[geekgirl101]

I think what's pouring more salt on the wounds is that the names of the owners we're seeing aren't even names we've met on the server. These are either alts, transfers, or people who haven't played the game in such a long time that nobody knows who they are. They could even be RMT hoping to make extra money by selling them off at a higher profit. It gives off a deflating feeling when you've worked hard and saved up money and by the time the login queue lets you in to find everything's gone to people you've never even seen or heard of in the game.

[mikanana]

this is ridiculous

[KelesK]

Now we have 170 ppl in Party Finder asking for a house offering up to 250 mil. This. Is. Madness.

Congratulations SE on forcing players to do what you don't condone - right?

[geekgirl101]

I just...I just don't even care anymore. People can be just evil and greedy and this is proof of that. You'd think SE would've learned from the sales of XBox One and Nintendo Switch - make something at high demand in limited supply, expect those with money to buy them out and resell them at a ridiculous profit.

[cuatx]

Within 5 mins all houses were gone on Mateus! I really hate that SE made Mateus a destination realm with free transfers. Just saying this sucks. I had friends in tears because they had been waiting for Shirogane since it was announced then the empty server became over populated. Very sad day.