Positivity about housing!

[Frinkls]

I log in right at the "time" the maintenance was done. I sit there painfully watching the intro, and hit start. Disaster strikes! My server has a queue! I am 15th in line. I'm there thinking... omg... it IS today, this will never move... omg... omg.. omg... I lost it. I tab out to tell my hubby I am screwed, and when I tab back BANG! Its loading!

"I STILL HAVE A CHANCE!"

But then, things start every zoomed in, I've had this issue before and before I had to log out and log in to fix it. "SCREW ME!" I think, while waiting, praying that the world will load correctly.

And then! IT DOES! I choose the ward I preselected so that the address is my birthday, another loading screen. I had noticed that all the plots were still empty in this specific ward, but still could be lag, server issues...

I log in and turns out I am one of maybe 4 people running around in the ward! I got my house super happy, I've been stockpiling random stuff and gil for months and spent most of it. Love it!

[loreleidiangelo]

Biggest reason I'll never feel positivity towards the housing system is because it's so limited that SE can't really expand upon the features of it without causing stupid backlash. Aside from new furnishings I don't think houses have got an actual feature added since exploratory missions, which were only for FCs.

I just want housing to be readily available to everyone so it can actually get some gameplay updates.

[Shihen]

All I see from these “positivity posts” is bragging to those that were denied a feature.

Because that's what it is. If positivity were really the goal, the thread would be highlighting the fact that many plots have opened up in the other areas and that all the commotion on the forums will likely spur some action from Square in the near future. This is an excuse to share excitement that came at a cost to the same people they're sharing it with.

[LittleSparrow]

I agree with you guys that there are problems here but let's keep the positive stories coming! With all the negativity in this thread going, I just want there to be atleast one thread to focus on the positive .
Congrats to all of you who got a plot!

I'm sorry you guys chose to see this post in such a negative way

[BillyKaplan]

I agree with you guys that there are problems here but let's keep the positive stories coming! With all the negativity in this thread going, I just want there to be atleast one thread to focus on the positive .
Congrats to all of you who got a plot!

I'm sorry you guys chose to see this post in such a negative way

How deep in the sand is your head buried? This is a zero-sum game, there's no 'positivity' here that won't be actually bragging. Your gain came at the expanse of someone else. This isn't some static group that cleared Shinryu Ex through hard effort and cooperation and everyone else has the potential to achieve the same goal if they want, this is literally you being luckier than other people and now expect these same people to be happy for you (alternatively, stay out of your thread, which they don't have to do as this is a public forum). Yeah, there's room for positivity, I for one enjoy a lot of things added in this patch, but this thread is pure, unbridled bragging and very, very poorly timed at that. This is Marie Antoinette levels of not reading the room.

[Sylfaein]

My FC saved money for months. I practiced running from the ferry to the plot we wanted WITH SOMEONE TIMING ME to get my time down as low as I possibly could. I woke up at 4AM, a full hour before the servers came up, to make sure that I had enough caffeine in me, and the patch downloaded. Computer and router restarted beforehand. Hit "Login" RIGHT when the servers opened, aaaaaaaaaaand...

Lobby error. Game crashed completely. Had to log back in from scratch, and by the time I got in, all the mansions were gone.

I did everything right, and a failure of the game cost my FC our mansion. Don't you tell me to be positive. This is unacceptable, and frankly, you're just here to rub people's noses in your good luck.

[PureSteel]

Seriously thanks for telling us about your house, it REALLY makes me feel better about not having one. Maybe you should get off the forum and go sit in your house.

[Lilseph]

I don't think this is going to make the people that didn't get a house to feel better...

[ThunderGodThor]

I don't think this is going to make the people that didn't get a house to feel better...

I think that was probably the point of the entire thread to be honest. Notsohumblebragging.

[LittleSparrow]

I think that was probably the point of the entire thread to be honest. Notsohumblebragging.

No, it wasn't. I'm trying to bring some positivity on the situations on the forums in the sea of negative posts. I never intended to brag.