How to solve housing

[Gallus]

That's a bad comparison because the supply/demand is completely different. Items are infinite.

Might not be the best solution, because people could take advantage to make profit yeah, but you guys wouldn't want it over what we have now?

[CatfishCassie]

Another way to solve it is get rid of neighborhoods and just make the system instanced. Many other MMOs do this just fine. As it stands right now, there is only 2,880 plots per server. That's BS for many servers.

Except the neighborhoods are what make FFXIV's housing system stand out. Who cares how cool your house is when it exists in a pocket dimension that only you and your close friends know about? How does that encourage a sense of community?

[ElHeggunte]

The only way this is ever going to get fixed is if we move to all instanced housing. But we're never going to do that so long as certain players continue to have a hard-on for living in a superfluous neighborhood where no on actually gives a shit about the person next door.

And this is as someone who's owned house since the last ward addition in HW.

[Yosho]

The only way to fix the housing problem is make them instanced.

[LunaTsukihime]

Except the neighborhoods are what make FFXIV's housing system stand out. Who cares how cool your house is when it exists in a pocket dimension that only you and your close friends know about? How does that encourage a sense of community?

How many times has a stranger commented on your house?

[Cherie]

There is instanced housing already... It's called apartments?

I mean really, they are essentially the mog houses from FFXI.... When I looked 30min after the servers were finally letting me log in and all the houses were gone, there were still tons of apartments. They were barely touched.

I'm not saying I don't get what you mean. You mean instanced housing like what other games like Rift have I assume. I think that would be fun and I don't say it is a bad idea. I just think the devs already gave us their answer when they released apartments however.