Losing faith in this MMO

[Alleo]

It has absolutely nothing to do with being 'spoiled' or 'entitled'. Housing is an increasingly prominent part of the game's development and Shirogane was advertised as a major feature of the expansion. So, too, was Eureka and that has been delayed...but that's a matter for another thread.

I had to look something up for a friend of mine (has some problem about items from the collectors edition) and I did notice the mentioning of Shirogane housing as one part of the parts of the description of what people can look forward too. Right now this really feels just bad..advertising a feature that knowingly will only be reachable by a very small amount of people..and to top it off people did get emails that said how a new housing zone has opened, hours after they were already sold out..

[Riardon]

I understand that some people don't like housing. Some others can't afford it so they don't care. And some others don't care because housing doesn't offer you any utility or something that has a value in gameplay. However SE made it clear that housing is a big and important aspect of the game. They are pouring resources into housing development with every single patch. It takes some part of the trailers as well. New items and features for housing appear in every patch and SE always hyped housing and advertised it as a big feature. So housing is important. Vanity yes but still a cool feature most people want. The vanishing of 720 houses in very few minutes made it clear. 720 houses for a game which has thousands of active players per server is nothing. It was a drop in the pool. SE needs to get their dodos together and start fixing the issue right now. We waited months for this and was big advertised. It even made the headlines today on some major gaming websites. And Jesus vanity or not housing on decade old games was much much better constructed than this farse. We are closing in 2018 and SE can't deliver what others did decades ago.

[Axxion]

from anothe r forum post
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...en-Ignored-Yet

[Arckrin]

I have read tons of houses stuff, personally my FC have a medium house in levender beds, I am on cerberus Btw, we planned to move to a large house in shirogane cause hour rooms can't afford to many people, yeah some got individual small houses, but in the end fc it fc and u stay more with your fc than alone, is a share pasional game, they show us like that they show house is important an overvalued, I predownload and log in at 5:00 PSD but the lobby was already 1213 in queued some how, but OK I didnt care I am 2nd leader in my fc so I got the responsability we moved and when I finally logged at 5:05 was all medium and large bought, only left small which I wasn't interested.

[Kushino]

I've cancelled my sub. Obviously not just because of the housing situation, but it was the straw that broke the camels back for me.

[Yuinna]

This was my first step into the "Game of Wards" and... yeah, it wasn't a good time.

My experience with the launch of Stormblood was just as bad: I couldn't play for 2 weeks because of queues, crashes, and errors. I came in with expectations of not snagging a house: I'm on Balmung for pete's sake. Alas, I was still pretty disappointed by the whole housing ordeal. And yes, I had salt running through my veins as the launcher decided to suddenly become unresponsive to my clicks... only to finally work 6 minutes after 6am, thus placing me in a 2.5k queue. My friend and I even pooled our money together just to try and buy a small plot of land. What did we get out of it, though? Disappointment.

I really hope that Square takes a long, hard look at housing, squints their eyes, and goes, "Huh... this might just be a problem."
For the love of Hydaelyn, fix it.

[Hezrou]

Losing faith over a top mmo because you didn't get a house? Might as well stop playing MMOs then. because it's worse everywhere else. Go into lootbox and cash shop hell then...Play the game for the game and not for an imaginary box.

[JCharms]

Losing faith over a top mmo because you didn't get a house? Might as well stop playing MMOs then. because it's worse everywhere else.

Pretty hard to take you seriously when most MMO's have infinite housing.

[Wyvernheart]

i don't understand. If you saved like 60mil and you know some people only paid about 3mil or so, why wouldn't you just try to buy someones land?

[ArmachiA]

The thing first and foremost they need to look at is the fact that most of the houses went to individuals. On Balmung it looks about 90/10 - so only about 10-15% of the houses went to FCs. I know Yoshi has always claimed FCs are more important so it's probably time to put their money where their mouth is and actually learn from what happened in Shirogane. Barely any FC got a house.

I'm always in favor of FCs going first - even though I want to rebuy a personal home and my FC already has a large in LB. FC homes benefit the most people and SE seems to agree, but the Wards say other wise.

I think people deserve a personal home though, I just think with the current system FCs should have a crack at it first, then in a few months open up wards for individuals to buy. There's a high demand for personal housing, and that's fine, but I think we can all admit this mixing of FC/personal housing stuff isn't working.