Housing salt

[Kerwin]

Let me be the first to pregame the salt so I don't have to make a thread later about it.

You handled housing for overpopulated servers all the wrong way.

And yes... I'm salty.

[Mahri]

Salt: The impending tidal wave of house flipping jackassery is going to be absolutely insufferable.

Sugar: But if you had a place in the Goblet or Lavender Beds, you're gonna get something really neat even if you can't grab a Shirogane plot. (If you're in Mist, congrats, you remain in what is still The Best Neighborhood)

[Naria]

. . . the servers aren't even down yet.

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Hi Kerwin and yes it's really disheartening actually

[ChewieFlakes]

Yeah the crap fest housing wars havent started yet but I like this idea of pre-salt. I'm incredibly disheartened they chose to ignore how horribly implemented the housing system is and that they refuse to fix the issue but instead chose to invest the effort into simply making a new housing ward that fixes almost nothing. A few lucky people will finally get to own a house. The rest will be bought by people who own multiple accounts, the largest FC's will swoop in with multiple potential buyers thanks to the mind bogglingly stupid relocation service, and they will go on not fixing the problem in any number of ways they could do so.

[Kahnom]

People will show their true color.
Its a good chance to see who is an ass and who isn't .
Just make sure you don't be an ass yourself.

[Cherie]

I think best thing to do is if someone does get a good claim on a house is to maybe either go somewhere else or lock the door of the house and hide inside to weather the storm..... haha

Can you imagine all the shouting and stuff that will be going on in the zone areas? Sheesh... I can already see it and the salt is real.
Lots of people will surely be claiming people stole from them. Friendships will be broken, lovers lost and neighbors alienated... This housing situation that was a bonfire of salt to begin with got "fixed" with someone pouring gasoline on it.

A new housing ward? Oh yea, and we are making it even cheaper! Yea, gil is worth a fraction it was when we first started putting housing out but... oh no, that's a lie, players are just richer now! Ya, that has a nicer ring to it...by golly! When everyone is rich, no one is...

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

Not a big fan of Shirogane (one day Ishgard housing will be made available...one day...right?) so will keep my house in the Goblet, its right in front of the plaza which looks like its getting one hell of a makeover! So I am not too bothered.

Might grab an apartment there though, to keep my inner weeb satiated.

[Klahan]

the entire housing mess is disheartening. We game to unwind, relax, escape not experience the same stresses and anxieties of real life. My friends are new to FF and we made our FC, rose to rank 6, saved our gil and for what? The housing system is broken! As I see it if we do not get a house tonight we wait until the next housing boom and go through this anxiety again only to lose out again? And so many don't care? Claiming housing wasn't meant for everyone. that's bull its a game. I pay for every aspect and it should be accessible; make it expensive, make it take time and effort but make it so you can actually access it! It actually sucks that this game is so popular now because it means SE can sit on their high mountain and not care about the little man who pays their hard earned money for an incomplete game. So thank you for bringing the salt! Heck bring the vinegar and the paper cuts because We're pissed! fix your mess SE!

[Kelani]

I’m on a low populated server, but despite this I was really nervous about later on today when the servers come back up. I was ready to camp out in the mist waiting for a small house to become available for my FC and because I’ve never experienced this before I was not looking forward to either being too late at getting a house, or being disappointed that none became available because let’s face it, the mist is a really nice area.

So as I’m want to do occasionally, tonight I checked the housing areas for any openings and low and behold there were two for lavender beds. I asked my hubby if he wanted me to grab one but he was like nah, wait until tomorrow I really would like a house in the mist. So fast forward to a few hours later I don’t know what it was, something told me to recheck the mist and so I did. To my surprise there was a small house available to purchase! So, I though oh boy, this is an opportunity I can’t miss, so I run to the area and the house is a really nice locale, overlooking the beach and really close to the vendors. As I’m about to purchase the house I see someone running towards me and I’m like eeeekkkkkk! My hubby is yelling at me “QUICK PURCHASE IT NOW!” And I’m really panicking cos I see this person making a beeline for me so what do I do but miss-click and accidentally summon my mount, so I quickly dismount and make the purchase. The guy who was running over to me? Yeah it just turned out he’d come to cheer me on and welcome me to the neighbourhood lol

I consider myself lucky enough that one the guy wasn’t an ass trying to steal the house I was about to purchase and also to get a house close to the update. Wish you guys luck and hope there’s not too many asshats out there.