Losing faith in this MMO

[DamianFatale]

Yep all of balmung/mateus snapped up in >10 minutes
Wonder when Square Enix will stop giving excuses on why they don't want to actually fix the problems their game has and actually do something about their archaic systems.

This is honestly the last straw. I’m not going to resubscribe next month, unless they announce enough housing for everyone on my server. I was already in a rut, because my inventory kept clogging up, due to a bad retainer storage system, that seriously needs to be simplified, but no. I can’t apparently keep all my old stuff from the past two eras, and nor can I get a house. Ugh.

[Erudito]

When it comes to housing I lost all hope already.

Savior of Eorzea, Slayer of Primald, multiple year subscriber and homeless. Yeah no, SE does not care.

I am done with housing.

SE, talk to me again when you have instances housing that is larger than a small house.

[FoxyAreku]

I wouldn't even be that upset if I had just been too slow, but no, the login button on my launcher 100% would not work for 10 minutes when the game came back up, by the time I got it to work, I was 1500th in queue, and every single house on the entire server was gone by the time I got in.

Just got completely shafted completely beyond my control. Ugh.

[Cylla]

I wouldn't even be that upset if I had just been too slow, but no, the login button on my launcher 100% would not work for 10 minutes when the game came back up, by the time I got it to work, I was 1500th in queue, and every single house on the entire server was gone by the time I got in.

Just got completely shafted completely beyond my control. Ugh.

Had the same issue. Logged in, got a lobby error, client crashed full. Had to retype password and token key - then for a good 5 mins couldn't even get the launcher to do anything. When I finally did, it lobby error me again, 3k que. Even before like the 5 min mark of the launcher issue, Balmung housing was cleaned out.

[Mr_Gyactus]

Just Unsub.
I spent months for gaining (honestly) 60M of gil, I logged and I was kicked out from the server, and when finally I re-logged (after a long queue) every house was gone.
If developers don't understand the point, I go elsewhere, my cash $$$ is accepted worldwide.

[Sokina]

Today was the first time I ever thought about canceling my sub and not looking back. Me and my FC, a small group of my friends, saved up enough money for each of us to buy a Large house. Don't get me wrong, we didn't WANT 4 mansions. We wanted each of us to have 45m to maximize our chances of getting one. I'm nocturnal, and the other 3 set alarms to wake up in time for it.

We didn't get defeated by someone who ran faster.
We didn't get defeated by the queue.
We didn't get defeated by "unable to complete housing action."

What did we get defeated by? A piece of garbage launcher that completely broke at 2:58 AM PDT, and didn't work until 3:03 AM.

Do yourselves a favor and don't even advertise or hype up your housing in the future, SE. It's a disgusting system that encourages so much negativity, so much direct competition, and the slap in the face is that your server load can't even handle the demand that is created by having so little amounts.

Please look at how other MMOs handle housing.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

Today was the first time I ever thought about canceling my sub and not looking back. Me and my FC, a small group of my friends, saved up enough money for each of us to buy a Large house. Don't get me wrong, we didn't WANT 4 mansions. We wanted each of us to have 45m to maximize our chances of getting one. I'm nocturnal, and the other 3 set alarms to wake up in time for it.

We didn't get defeated by someone who ran faster.
We didn't get defeated by the queue.
We didn't get defeated by "unable to complete housing action."

What did we get defeated by? A piece of garbage launcher that completely broke at 2:58 AM PDT, and didn't work until 3:03 AM.

I mean you say that but cleanly enough people logged in to buy up all the houses with no issue. I saw someone asking for a housing lottery else where seems the login server was already doing that.

[FoxyAreku]

I mean you say that but cleanly enough people logged in to buy up all the houses with no issue. I saw someone asking for a housing lottery else where seems the login server was already doing that.

lmao. I didn't even think of that but you're right, it is just a crapshoot lottery.

And I was born under an unlucky star. /wrists

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I mean you say that but cleanly enough people logged in to buy up all the houses with no issue. I saw someone asking for a housing lottery else where seems the login server was already doing that.

That's the whole point. It boils down entirely to sheer dumb luck. Everyone who has a Shirogane house now has one because they were lucky. That's the only reason, and for a AAA game in 2017. It's absolutely pathetic. ESO, Wildstar, Black Desert, all Free to Play MMOs have a better housing system than FFXIV.

[Matdredalia]

That's the whole point. It boils down entirely to sheer dumb luck. Everyone who has a Shirogane house now has one because they were lucky. That's the only reason, and for a AAA game in 2017. It's absolutely pathetic. ESO, Wildstar, Black Desert, all Free to Play MMOs have a better housing system than FFXIV.

EverQuest (which is almost NINETEEN YEARS OLD), EverQuest 2, Lord of the Rings Online, RIFT, even bloody Ragnarok Online (which is pixeled and isometric graphics!)......I can absolutely keep going, but I shouldn't have to. The fact that an endless number of MMOs, all of which are now free to play, have either acceptable, on par, or mind-blowingly massive and amazing housing systems, where anyone can get a house, period, if they earn it, but FFXIV, one of only two pay to play MMOs that matter anymore, can't? Is beyond unacceptable. It's disgusting, and the devs should be ashamed for creating a system so broken, and those holding the purse strings saying they can't afford more servers for new wards should be ashamed for pushing the game farther and farther into dangerous territory by making the player base feel ignored and rejected.

I already know half a dozen players who quit completely because or partially because, of the housing issues. Now, four of them had other reasons involving Balmung's overpopulation and congestion, but the housing was a HUGE part of it.

Every time something this huge, that so many people feel so passionate about happens, where scalpers are profiting off of sheer dumb luck and our hard work, where the devs & producers blatantly ignore us and refuse to allow millions of us access to a MAJOR part of the game because of the stupidest possible reasons, they tell the community: "We don't listen to you. We don't care about you. We're going to do what we want, and you can deal with it."

And it is *pathetic.* The fact that originally? The Yo-Kai event was supposed to make the weapons super exclusive, so that you couldn't get them all, but they bent on that, okay, a CROSSOVER WITH ANOTHER SERIES NOT OWNED BY SQUARE, they decided was worth making things not-exclusive, but a HOUSE, a basic part of the game, that shouldn't be exclusive in ANY SANE WAY because you know, we're the WARRIOR OF LIGHT, is deemed "exclusive" to special people? Come the heck on.

And apartments will NEVER be an answer. The fact that they acted like they were is insane. And they're going to screw themselves by shoving their player base right out of the game.