Stop asking for more wards

[Shougun]

Been too busy to read the forums for a long while but just saw what happened for the FC in game and saw the reddit and realized I could beat my favorite dead horse :3...

/bangs drum lol

FFXIV's housing system is very non-competitive compared to other MMOs (P2P and even F2Ps) and for a sub game, with a cash shop, it makes me embarrassed for SE.. which is quite a bad feeling imo.

The graphics are nice - and I feel if the system was better you'd see even better graphical possibilities (for example in WS there is this backdrop: LINK but I know SE's would look 100x better yet you'll never see it because their system can't do it). Nael Van Darnus Backdrop to your house drifting in the void, Roshi house, Grass planes, snowy mountain top, or w.e you wanted lol. Housing in Ishgard in your next patch, because it's instanced and you're using theme props and an "Ishgard" backdrop.

To add Wildstar (usual reference for instanced housing) has neighborhoods/communities now which basically allow you to have the insane customize-ability of the system but with a large group of people on a very large plot. The one each player gets for themselves, each and every - for free, is already larger than FFXIV's largest house plot inside and out, but now in a community (housing area) you share that with 5 other people on what is equivalent to 5 plots + a little extra. Far less pipe dream would "just" (just makes it sound easy, its not.. but really hope something changes) would be they do what LotR does and auto-generate those wards when one is full.

Of course changing a system so drastically would cost /a lot/ of money, time (also money, lol), likely distract from other content (although housing system > blitzball or new pvp area in terms of priority imo), and perhaps some reputation ("We're doing what ARR is to 1.0 for housing") and that's why we've not seen them make a substantial change.. and probably never will, which sucks. FFXIV's housing graphics are quite nice and I'd probably die from explosive joy if they had even close to Wild Star power in their game since I just like their world/art a lot more (FF's). Really want a chocobo farm.. still lol.

On the bright side the other new stuff in this patch is quite cool though. SE always delivers pretty, visually and audibly :3 (not even got to it, just saw some people do it - too busy to play outside of gardening even, but hey I'm supporting the game still XD).