Stop asking for more wards

[Felmin]

Creating more wards for more houses only creates less problems, but does NOT effectively solve the issue.

Even if we received an extra ward, the day it is released will be another day like today with majority of people being disappointed and angry over the same login RNG disaster.


What we need is a change in how housing is done for the future in this game and the community as a whole need to push for it.

I understand SE wanted to give us a neighborhood feeling with wards, but being able to own a house for your own FC or for oneself is far more important than belonging in a neighborhood.

Personally I would like to see instanced housing.

• A 1 house mini instance with customizable environments (trees, water, terrain)
• Owners able to upgrade the house size
• Friends be able to visit the house instance

What does the FFXIV community think of instanced housing?

[Aerilon]

Creating more wards for more houses only creates less problems, but does NOT effectively solve the issue.

Even if we received an extra ward, the day it is released will be another day like today with majority of people being disappointed and angry over the same login RNG disaster.


What we need is a change in how housing is done for the future in this game and the community as a whole need to push for it.

I understand SE wanted to give us a neighborhood feeling with wards, but being able to own a house for your own FC or for oneself is far more important than belonging in a neighborhood.

Personally I would like to see instanced housing.

The problem with this just comes down to development time. Adding additional wards would literally probably be a 1 day task to change some code, review it send it off to QA and deploy.

[Lambdafish]

The problem with this just comes down to development time. Adding additional wards would literally probably be a 1 day task to change some code, review it send it off to QA and deploy.

HAHAHAHAHA, if you think it is a one day task then you have no idea what kind of backend goes into those wards. SE would literally need to order more servers and set up the infrastructure to handle them. We didn't even get as much inventory space as promised due to server strain let alone adding new wards on demand

[JunseiKei]

The problem with this just comes down to development time. Adding additional wards would literally probably be a 1 day task to change some code, review it send it off to QA and deploy.

It is probably not about the development time and more about server space, stability and trying to justify increasing the cost to host FFXIV to accommodate these demands with nary an incentive that will visibly pay off instantly. I'm referring to adding it as an additional service under the Mogstation. Remember, SE the company holds the purse strings, not the XIV team and not Yoshida.

[SendohJin]

this is not new, i feel like if they knew how to do this properly we wouldn't have gotten apartments.

[KeyboardFacerollname]

Instanced housing would be OK. But I actually like hanging around the housing ward and seeing other peoples houses and hanging out with people by the MB(my new FC and old FC are neigbours and we all hang out and chat by the nearby MB).

Housing wards are a big part of the social aspect of the game that I enjoy. Having all housing shunted into individual instances where you only see your own house and can only interact with people you invite over would kill that aspect, even though it would help solve the housing availability issue.

[Enla]

Instanced housing would be OK. But I actually like hanging around the housing ward and seeing other peoples houses and hanging out with people by the MB(my new FC and old FC are neigbours and we all hang out and chat by the nearby MB).

Housing wards are a big part of the social aspect of the game that I enjoy. Having all housing shunted into individual instances where you only see your own house and can only interact with people you invite over would kill that aspect, even though it would help solve the housing availability issue.

See they don't even need to kill the neighborhoods. Do a mixed BDO system where the houses still sit in one neighborhood, but the houses are instanced zones.

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

See they don't even need to kill the neighborhoods. Do a mixed BDO system where the houses still sit in one neighborhood, but the houses are instanced zones.

It is exactly the way it works now. Don't believe me, have 101 people enter your house.

[Arutan]

IMO, the housing should be remodeled like this:
- delete all apartment while refunding anyone who bought one and store their item to the NPC. They are pretty much useless since you can't have a garden.
- use that memory for new wards.
- make ward housing for single player only, limited to one house per ACCOUNT (yes, even cross server.)
- create an instanced FC HQ that an FC can buy for the price of a big house, this way every FC can have a "big house" with workshop and gardening, while leaving plot for players.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

People are asking for more wards because they know the odds of instanced housing is minuscule at best. It's less a "we want more wards!" and more "we want something to get done this time."