Stop Promoting Housing if You Can't Deliver to All

[ivyblue]

That's exactly what happened to me. By the time I was able to log on there were no houses left of course.

[Kursion]

Don't forget the new housing items on the mog station.

[NephthysVasudan]

Stop basing housing availability on confines of “housing space.” Stop basing housing availability based on who has the fastest internet connection when a patch goes live.

I'm able to play online during my off times when I'm working - where I work I have access to a network backbone that literally gives me in excess of megabytes of bandwidth.....insane speeds.

And yet I still landed at 700 in the queue this morning.

I was only assisting my FC to get a plot....still didn't happen.

Internet connection doesn't mean nothing....its all dumb luck sadly.

I'm in favor of a 1 plot/personal house/fc house/account/server idea however.... or instanced.....but beyond that..this system will continue to drive people away. Especially when faced with those who own multiple plots across wards on a single given server...something like that should be dealt with.

I can get reasons behind it..but its just greedy and selfish.

-Neph

[ArchangelSavior]

that's right! I want my own Med House for subscriber, she is right! we are pay bills each months this game FFXIV! we want houses!

[LastFireAce]

hahaha i love you guys, i really do!

[Kaminto]

What about solo players who want nothing to do with an FC??? They shouldn't be allowed housing because they choose to not associate with a FC???? Nonsense!!!

The other side of this topic heh i do feel individuals should have their own house but they lose out on the necessities like personal rooms and the workshop, i just feel large houses should be held for FC's, I'm currently running through my wards and I'm seeing individual large houses abandonedn one still has the snow furnishing on the ground, if Square can't make housing available for everyone then i feel that is a viable option in the least, plus they should do what star wars galaxies did and have some type of system where you pay rent for the housing, maybe once per game day, that might stop the whole lev 1 alt house holding situation.

[ProjectT]

We are paying customers/subscribers. Not a single one of us should be LOCKED OUT of experiencing the housing part of the game. If we CHOOSE NOT to experience certain parts of the game, we have made a CONSCIOUS CHOICE and we still like the game and we still keep on playing and we still keep on PAYING. But, MILLIONS OF US WANT A HOUSE! For any free companies who have worked hard in the game to reach their goal of owning a house because they've never had one and they want the FC housing perks and this applies to personal houses, too, those that have CHOSEN to work hard toward their own goal of owning a house, and then for all of the goals to be slapped away in the blink of an eye! The current system is NOT FAIR TO ALL. If it is luck-based, then that makes it even worse in my eyes. Square knows this is a huge goal and a very difficult one to complete. That is why we work so hard for the house reward only to find a myriad of feeble excuses from Square or silly roadblocks with the launcher crashing, the game crashing, the infinite queue, the internet speed, etc. I don't believe their excuses anymore. It's been too many years to hear them over and over and they say nothing, not one single thing - to at least give one little glimpse of hope that they have a big remedy.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Square has known all along how to fix this housing mess. I do not know what stops them from implementing it. They are the Boss. They make the Rules. Just do it! HOUSING FOR ALL!!

What I do know is that it all makes me SICK as the atrocious housing availability stands today.

[Abayifo]

I have a member of my FC that transferred from another server partially due to the fact that 2 players owned almost an entire ward. One way to fix that would be to limit housing for personal use to ONE private home per account, the same way it is one home per FC.
My FC got lucky shortly after a few more wards were made available a couple years back, and we got a large in mist, Not even a couple weeks after we scored that plot, ALL HOUSING was gone.
Please don't make the excuse that expanding the housing areas will have a poor impact on the in game economy - the in game economy is already horrible. Many FCs suffer behind the housing wall because they can't garden, can't make t3 buffs, can't train each other's chocobos, ect.
When the housing wards fill - Make new ones. Other MMOs already do this. Give us housing in Coerthas! Add more wards to the original 3 housing areas! Add more wards to the SB areas. If you value the community spirit of this game - make it work.

[Belisaire]

Up at 3:00 AM, got stuck at the login button as things got slammed. Launcher crashed several times. By the time the server let me in, I was in queue 2509.

I'm one of the lucky few to have gotten a FC mansion in the last round. Now I'm shopping for a medium for myself. This goes against my own goals, but I honestly feel that individuals should pay significantly more for a house than a FC. It just makes common sense. Given how strapped server resources apparently are.

I also think a lottery system should be implemented to keep things fair--so the spam login bots don't have an advantage. Ideally, SE would find a way to actually meet the demand, but in lieu of that, they aren't showing any real intent to actually make the system fair or meet the demand so it should be random.

And when a house is demolished/sold? Send it back into the lottery. Kill the after selling market.

[Alleo]

I was hoping to get a big one, was saving for quite some months on that but in the end thanks to the servers I was only able to get a small one in Ul`dah out of poor luck. (I know that its better than nothing but still..) The only restriction housing should have is Gil. If someone has enough of that they should be able to buy one. Its even worse since they create more and more seasonal housing items for a small amount of players, lock FC content behind it, have a timer since its never enough which means that you cant take a longer break as an owner and on top of that truly advertise it as a one part of SB...

But at least we can buy consumable Halloween food from the last even for quite some money in the cash shop..