Probably Cancelling My Subscription

[ZStar]

It is accessible. You just have to do it. Housing you can't have it once it is taken. Logic mate. Where is your logic?

[Alleo]

So should they remove the lockout on Bahamut Ultimate because it's a feature of the game? Should any fresh 70 be able to do it? Just asking.

Like, I get it, it sucks you didn't get it, but honestly? You're kind of being a dick, too, just because this isn't an echo chamber.

Thats completely different since Ultimate does not have a limit itself..I am quite sure that people would be very angry if suddenly only 20 groups would be allowed to beat it at all and after that the content would be closed off..people can still try Ultimate, they just need enough skill. Housing should be the same but instead of skill it should just need Gil..

I got a small after lots of disconnects and anger but I surely lost a lot of motivation for the game...I really hope that the drop in sub is big enough for them to notice it and maybe finally doing something...if not: Please stop with advertising housing as some great feature of the game if you cant even give a big part of the players one.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Ultimate will never be available to everyone outside of unsync much later because of the skill floor. To be entirely blunt, it's an apt comparison in this case because both require a dedicated effort and amount of time. In one it's to acquire the skills to even unlock it, in the other it's massive amounts of gil.

Again, housing is still broken, I'm not denying that, but there isn't a pretty and easy fix that the devs can just slap on and acting entitled to a house just because you logged in when hundreds and thousands of others did the same thing you did... Well. I think you see where this is going. It's not helping.

Actually, it's an idiotic comparison. The only obstacle impeding players from Ultimate is their own abilities. All one needs do is advertising themselves and work through party finder until they get picked up for a static. Alternatively, they can attempt it later once they out-gear it. Housing, on the other hand, is entirely gone. There is no option to work harder or better prepare when a simple log in error can occur for anyone at complete random. It doesn't matter if people put in hours of dedication for 200M or bought said amount from RMT. Unlike Ultimate, houses just aren't there. Imagine if Ivalice released with an arbitrary gate that only allowed the first 15% of players through while everyone else were told "oh well."

That's how the housing system works.

[Shirolumi]

I was salty the first 5 minutes but I guess I expected this tbh. And although housing is not the main draw for me in the game, I understand that for those it is, it may leave a sour taste. So I agree that stopping to play FFXIV is a good idea. I think there are a lot of other games that may seem more appealing if this is your main draw.

[Cyrillus]

Gotta be honest, I feel the same way, and it KILLS me. I did everything I could, stayed up until 6am EST for my shot, got kicked from the lobby server, stuck in a queue for 20 minutes, and by then every last bit of it had vanished. Now, I can only imagine how working professionals who couldn't afford to take this particular night to get this must feel. It was all gone in 20 minutes, an entire feature of the patch just...gone. It is enough to make anyone who actually cares about this sort of thing rethink their $15/mo.

[Laerune]

Already cancelled mine, only subbed for Eureka and a house, but since I got neither of those two, I have decided that after October, I will be taking break for few months (might log in for the christmas event).

[Jas710]

But other than that, we have come a long way so far so & the journey has been a wonderful one with all the other added content that followed.

Most of what has just been them playing CATCH-UP. How many of the added/adjusted features (major or minor) were things that people went "Jeez, finally, about damn time"?

Housing as it stands right now is the biggest obvious elephant in the room, but the mentality is seen in every aspect of this game.

[CrehTchiolu]

I can't say that I'll unsubscribe, because at this stage of the game, I'd be a fool to throw away what I've already accumulated, and I didn't ante up all my hopes on this. I will say that the handling of the 4.1 patch and the management thereof has been nothing short of abysmal. This is the first housing expansion we've had, and it went over like a lead balloon. Between server overload, first-come-first-serve, alts, and the basic failure of the housing system in general, the whole thing smacks of a real disconnect between the developers and the players.

As a poster further up said, it's soured me regarding my opinion of the development team, and I think a substantial number of players have the same opinion. After having purchased the expansion, to see this as the first real patch is... disappointing. I fear that if 4.2 is as deleterious as this one, I may have to leave instead of throwing good money after bad.

[WoolyBear]

I've loved this game for years, and never ever seriously considered stepping away no matter what other issues it has had until today. This was absolutely the biggest failure I have seen since I started at 2.0 launch. How did no one on the dev team see this coming? If they're going to artificially limit the supply AT LEAST make it expensive enough to go along with it. Years ago when housing was first released plots sat empty on my server for weeks and months after because VERY FEW people had the money for it. Now the cost of a large house appears to be pocket change for a very large amount of people. If you're not going to add more housing at least make housing costs more reflective of the actual supply/demand involved. 100-300M for larges, 50-100M for mediums, and 25-35M for smalls would be good ranges.

[LennethBelmont]

I think what did me in to consider unsubbing is that my friends daughter with a terminal illness stayed up all night to be faced with log in issues and less than 15 minutes later she couldn't even get a small house to decorate. This caused her so much stress she ended up in the hospital as her disease flared up crazy bad. Granted this is not SE's fault for her being sick or stressed out or whatever but it just opened my eyes that to some people this is a very serious problem. Those who can't go outside and go hiking and stuff like healthy people, this is their whole world and this is soul crushing to them.