Thread: Patch 4.2

4.1 customer backlash is probably bigger than they anticipated and the problem isn't easy/quick to fix. If they want to make big changes to the housing system for patch 4.2 (which wouldn't have been part of the planned schedule) then it would significantly delay patch 4.2.

Originally Posted by Rufalus

4.1 customer backlash is probably bigger than they anticipated and the problem isn't easy/quick to fix. If they want to make big changes to the housing system for patch 4.2 (which wouldn't have been part of the planned schedule) then it would significantly delay patch 4.2.

Then they better hop on it right away then. They should man up, insert a housing revamp now, and push everything on their development road map one version later.

The future is now.

Originally Posted by Jas710

Then they better hop on it right away then. They should man up, insert a housing revamp now, and push everything on their development road map one version later.

The future is now.

The response to the devs not having the manpower or budget to perform a massive overhaul that is UNSCHEDULED is that they should man up? You clearly have no clue about game development, nor do you care. I have read enough of this thread to understand that you would happily sacrifice the quality of 4.2 just to get a housing overhaul, and if that is not true then I'm sorry but you just sound entitled.

The housing crisis is a problem, but it is not a reason to be unrealistic with demands. The devs have limitations, and housing is a huge undertaking that has repeatedly missed the mark, 3 more months of development (conception to implementation) will hardly do the system justice with what you are asking for.

Thanks for this. I will take it a step further even. Why is everyone so mad about housing in FFXIV? How is it a crisis? Ok, if there are people monopolizing houses with RMT gil, I get that. I truly get that. But there are aloooooot of people who earn their gil the right way and get their houses. They've earned their houses. Alot of the people complaining about housing and how hard it is to obtain are people that barely play and barely have any money? There are people who put in alot of time playing and have earned alot of gil, and when those people snatch up houses, everyone complains about how they couldnt get one, or how they were too expensive. I say if a house means that much to you, maybe you should put in the time and effort like others do, instead of complaining about how Square should just make a bunch more and just hand them out so everyone can have them.

If you play alot, have lots of gil, and are constantly looking to get a house, you have a leg to stand on. But there's people out there that have 1-5 mil, who play 1 day a week who complain and complain about housing this and that, and I just don't understand. You think you should just get one for nothing and no work? What fun is that? People will hate this RL comparison, but houses are earned and fought after there too. Pretty much what people are asking from Square with housing is for Government assistance. If everyone could have a house, the whole love for this game in the context of housing would go out the window for many players. The idea of a house being special right now is why everyone wants one. If everyone has one it's not unique anymore, and the game would suffer alot, I believe. It's not without it's flaws, but I think people are focused on the wrong things with it. Method of obtainment and requirements could be looked at, but amount and the price is just fine.

Originally Posted by Lambdafish

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Just because people know how to make money doesn't mean they use RMT. Me and my wife make an average of a couple of mil a day and with the Shirogane Hunger games, we made around a hundred. Loads of Gil doesn't equal RMT.

Originally Posted by LittleSparrow

Just because people know how to make money doesn't mean they use RMT. Me and my wife make an average of a couple of mil a day and with the Shirogane Hunger games, we made around a hundred. Loads of Gil doesn't equal RMT.

This ^ I play the market and sitting on a nice 30mil just from playing the market, oh and minions.

Originally Posted by LittleSparrow

Just because people know how to make money doesn't mean they use RMT. Me and my wife make an average of a couple of mil a day and with the Shirogane Hunger games, we made around a hundred. Loads of Gil doesn't equal RMT.

Same here. 100% agree.

Originally Posted by LittleSparrow

Just because people know how to make money doesn't mean they use RMT. Me and my wife make an average of a couple of mil a day and with the Shirogane Hunger games, we made around a hundred. Loads of Gil doesn't equal RMT.

If doing things right with your time, you should get anywhere from 500k -3 million on a good day. Since Shirogane day, 3-10 million a day. I'm sure there are tons of people making even more.

Originally Posted by LittleSparrow

Just because people know how to make money doesn't mean they use RMT. Me and my wife make an average of a couple of mil a day and with the Shirogane Hunger games, we made around a hundred. Loads of Gil doesn't equal RMT.

Yeah same here, my guy and I can make millions if we need to, it really isn't that hard at all.

And I really hope there is no monthly fee because I don't think it would really solve much, I also prefer the neighborhoods, so no instanced housing "only" either. SE made this mess, they can figure out how to fix it with keeping what we have. *shrug*