Probably Cancelling My Subscription

[HyoMinPark]

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.

This is incorrect. Savage and Ultimate Savage do take skill, yes, but skill is something people can develop with enough dedication. Everyone has the ability to unlock, run, and successfully complete Savage and Ultimate if they put their mind to it; some people it will take longer than others, but everyone can do it. Housing, on the other hand, all boils down to luck. Not skill; not dedication; just luck. Earning gil in this game isn’t that hard. Doing MSQ and Sidequests give you plenty, as do Daily Roulettes, to purchase a small plot by the time you complete all of them. I know a person who doesn’t craft; he just sells items his retainers bring him from Quick Ventures and makes money. Crafting isn’t that hard to do either, even though the leveling process can be and is tedious. Same with gathering. But, I digress...

But, in the end, whether or not a person obtains a house is all down to luck. Were they lucky enough to be #147 in queue, or #1,470 in queue? Were they lucky enough to not get hit with a 5606 or 2002 error, or lucky enough to get multiple errors? Were they lucky enough to load just a millisecond faster than someone else, and click that Placard before the 20 other people rushing towards that same plot? It’s all luck, and it shouldn’t be that way.

~20% of the current playerbase will ever own a house; in reality, however, it’s even less, because one has to not only consider Free Company housing, but also individuals that own multiple houses on the same account. Less than 20% of the nearly 900,000 active characters will own a house. 100% of the active playerbase can unlock and access Savage. >20% of the active playerbase will ever access and own a house. Savage versus Housing is not an adequate comparison.

I mean, I got a house a few months ago from being patient and waiting, so. You're acting like no one ever leaves, and that skill plateaus don't exist. Not everyone is going to be good enough to beat Savage, no matter how hard they try, and the attitude that anyone can do it if they try hard enough is one I'm frankly sick of.

Considering that many people log in once every 44 days just to save their house, and then never log in again until another 44 days have passed, housing opening up is a rarity, and, again, it is all based on luck. There are two mansions on my server in the Lavender Beds. One is a personal, and the other is a solo FC with a level 1 character in it. They have been sitting there empty for well over a year. Empty. For well over a year. That is just ridiculous.

You were lucky enough to spy a free plot. Just like I was when I purchased my FC house. I literally just happened to look at the Lavender Beds wards and see a small plot open for 3mil. I booked it to that plot and managed to snag it, but that was after months of checking, and months of waiting. Why should players be forced to wait for housing because the developers are seemingly either ignorant of the demand, or just blatantly unwilling to fix this broken system?