In Defence of Housing

[CallumWright]

I've never understood people's obsession with housing. Not even my brother's. It's a barbie house made of pixels that only offers being a hub of merchants, menders, and a retainer bell as well as being a useful way for me to make Gil with raw materials for crafts. It doesn't add gameplay depth, it doesn't give you an edge in endgame, and it doesn't strike me as fun to decorate a house using the exact same things every single other person seems to put in their house but in a slightly different spot. Maybe one or two houses like the Persona reconstructions I saw on the Reddit caught my eye and made me think "That's cool". Guess I'll just observe from the outside while raking in cash from the crazy people.

[Xellos2099]

Is it even logical to think peopel can get more than 1 house last night?

[Kadderin]

I'm locked out from content I paid for, and the only way for me to obtain that content is to trade with people that's a bannable offense on the seller's end.

[LiminalityCarb]

There are people on Mateus, which up until 4.0 was a dead sever, and their housing ran out within 15 minutes of the server coming up. So the "transfer to a smaller server" is flawed anyway. In addition, as there is unique content that REQUIRES you to have a house (FC airships, gardens [cross-breeding]), there should be more of a fair chance to actually be able to engage in such content. This isn't a skill check like savage content is for gating where you can eventually experience the content by improving yourself, or by having others help you through it, but instead a gate of "did you click in the right ms to get past the launcher not loading and get in before the queue started?" which is not good.

[ChewieFlakes]

This may be the dumbest post I've seen so far since the patch dropped.

[LunaTsukihime]

This isn't a skill check like savage content is for gating where you can eventually experience the content by improving yourself, or by having others help you through it, but instead a gate of "did you click in the right ms to get past the launcher not loading and get in before the queue started?" which is not good.

Exactly, this is the biggest problem that hit us all during this patch launch.
Adding the LIMITED supply and sheer amount of people just buying a house to sell it for higher minutes laiter is just a HUGE slap to anyone.

[hiedra]

I'm locked out from content I paid for, and the only way for me to obtain that content is to trade with people that's a bannable offense on the seller's end.

Don't forget that buying off another player could also put you at risk for getting scammed!

[ThunderGodThor]

This may be the dumbest post I've seen so far since the patch dropped.

I agree mate, honestly.

Check out the FFXIVHousing reddit, people are already selling shirogane plots. It's honestly disgusting. The people defending SE on this are misguided at best.

[Moonlite]

You aren't entitled to a plot.

hahaha

This is why its pointless and he wins. In fact he has been winning since housing day one. They aren't going to fix it, they aren't going to change it. Come back in two years. The dev team will ignore this, like they did in the past till people get tired. Maybe if subs are down enough 5.1 will be better.

You're working on the assumption that there's meant to be enough housing for literally every player to have a house waiting for them as soon as they have the gil. Housing is deliberately scarce because it's intended to be a rare commodity.

When instead of shilling some junk dev team says. "Housing is not meant for everyone, the end." Game content is meant to be accessible, unless stated otherwise. I said accessible not comparable, which in games are two separate things. They set the requirements for housing. Scarcity has never been mentioned as one.