In Defence of Housing

[Kohdo]

You aren't entitled to a plot.

Your monthly sub grants you the ability to login. Nothing more.

If you're getting 1000-person queues on login and can never find a plot of land, maybe move to a lower pop server? If you're on one of the most populated servers in game, you should've seen this coming when Shirogane was announced.

Housing is a limited commodity. You can play on a high-pop server or you can have an easy time finding a plot of land, but you can't have both. I agree that more wards should be added, and there should be a limit to one house per service account. While these are reasonable requests, the salt over housing has become a joke.

Stop demanding crappy instanced housing, stop threatening to unsub (everyone knows you won't, and they don't care), and stop cursing SE/Yoshida/whoever. This is a game. If your pixel house means that much to you, take the initiative and transfer out of your high-pop server.

Just my 2¢. Flame away.

[Inuk9]

Also, I played this game since 2.1 and never got a chance to buy a house, until now and never complained about it. I was satisfied with my apartment, so why should't you be?

[Aamalthea]

I'm going to be that one because I'm only the tiniest bit salty today. I hadn't planned on buying a house as my char with the most gil is on Balmung and there's more of a chance that I'll get struck by lightning than buy a plot there. But anyway, here goes.


*defense

[PharisHanasaki]

I'm in a low pop server. Your post is invalid now.

[Miracle_Diva]

Yes. This is a game. And we are paying for it. We bought expansions with content, we pay monthly. Why can't we have that piece of housing content too?

[HyoMinPark]

If you're getting 1000-person queues on login and can never find a plot of land, maybe move to a lower pop server? If you're on one of the most populated servers in game, you should've seen this coming when Shirogane was announced.

Housing is a limited commodity. You can play on a high-pop server or you can have an easy time finding a plot of land, but you can't have both. I agree that more wards should be added, and there should be a limit to one house per service account. While these are reasonable requests, the salt over housing has become a joke.

You're joking, right? You realize that even the "low pop servers" had housing completely gone in less than 1 hour after the patch went live, right? You realize that a lot of people got stuck in 1,000+ player queues because they were hit with faulty launchers or 2002 Lobby Server errors (which, by the way, have nothing to do with your server of choice, nor your system but SE's systems), and that was the sole reason they were unable to get on faster? This system is atrocious, and SE should be ashamed of themselves to advertise Shirogane as a main attraction of an expansion when they knew that less than 20% of the active player base would ever be able to obtain such a thing.

[Sokina]

Your 2 cents are worth as much as everyone else's. People have every right to complain about stuff they don't like. And they're doing it in the right section of the right forum. Things aren't going to change if nobody says anything. They might not change even if people DO complain, but they sure as hell won't if everyone pretends it's fine.

It's extremely in poor taste to be overly reductive about "pixel house" and "it's a game." There are features locked behind housing, that a large majority of the people cannot access. And in no way was your post in "defense of housing." Because you did no defending of the housing system. You're just attacking people who are unhappy about it.

Furthermore, the housing is screwed even in low housing servers, so....? And a lot of people got screwed by a shoddy launcher that broke minutes before the patch went live and resolved ~5 minutes after, so they had no chance even before the "1000 person queue."

[Zojha]

Just my 2¢. Flame away.

Gladly!

Let me start by telling you that your statement is ignorant, because even if everyone did heed your advice and transferred off, there still wouldn't be enough housing.
I said it in another thread, but I'll do the math for you as well. 60 plots per ward, 12 wards per district, 4 districts per server, 66 servers -> 190k houses total. The last unofficial census had 400k characters at 70 total, over 600k eligible for housing and then you also have to account for FCs as well.

It doesn't work, it cannot work and you are spouting nonsense. No amount of transferring can solve the housing shortage, there simply isn't enough there.

[Igninox]

post invalid

[Tsumdere]

Yes. Your sub should guarentee you housing - those without houses pay the same subscription as those who do have a house, despite being locked out of a chunk of content.