Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

how about some speculation?

So, given that his response is "more wards" while taking in feedback as to how they will be sold, it sounds like they still do not understand the underlying problem:

1. Not enough housing.
2. players buying multiple houses per account
3. Mixed competition between single buyers and FC buyers.

Which bring me to my first guess: timed releases of wards.

By spreading out the release, it gives the illusion of players having multiple chances to obtain the same housing in the patch. It sounds better to say "you had 2 weeks to get 1 ward of housing released a day at a time!" than "you had 15 minutes to get 14 wards of housing!" even if the amount of housing available is far smaller, and the competition(and whatever meta tricks said competition would use) likely more rampant. said housing would still be gone in minutes, if not seconds, but there are "chances" to be the lucky person in the time between the seconds.

It still means that there is not enough housing, and that a lot of servers will only see a few people satisfied, while so many others, fc and person alike, are left out.

A solution Zenos would be proud of.

My second guess is they are testing the winds, keeping housing the same mess it is until conditions are favorable and people desperate enough, to put it on the mogstation.

I hope they do not go this route. It is completely underhanded and I would lose my faith in the company.

Last guess? Public venues.

The problem for FCs is that several amenities and activites require having a house. Public versions of the company workshop airship hangar, and possibly a greenhouse for gardening would provide some remedy for the homeless masses.

It still isn't housing, which FCs talk about when recruiting and is still all in a personal location...

Originally Posted by Vasala

One thing that needs to happen is new wards need to be triggered when all current wards fill. Now that you can relocate it means that if later on a ward becomes a ghost town people could move to a more populated ward that has an opening.

Although this would be the most ideal, it takes up a lot of server space and going from how they have talked about server space in the past they are very tight on it. I don't think they have the resources and budget to keep such an expandable feature which i can understand. They do need to pump in more resource into it though and potentially create checks on the housing situation regularly, to see if they can add more every now and then.

It looks like the massive uproar has made them realize how passionate players are on the housing front and how much they underestimated its popularity of it and with the growing player-base this game has.

Originally Posted by Yuniko

I do think that Every account should only be able to get 1 house. Not multiple over the same account on said Realm. Because that is what people do, especilly on Balmung. Is that they use alts, to purchase more plots, to keep and then resell.

What's to stop someone making 500 different email addresses (plenty free options out there), 500 different Square Enix accounts, and pay the sub fee 500 times a month, just to buy 500 plots anyway? Sure, I'm showcasing an extreme edge case here, but it is a possibility that someone who wants to hoard the housing may have that much disposable income they want to spend on the game.

That would literarly be quite idiotic. honestly. Cause if in all honestly, they are so sad they'll make x ammount of emails then pay x ammount of money each month just to hoard houses. That's pretty sad, and pathetic, and i don't think nor see it will happend.

Originally Posted by Yuniko

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There are people that "sad" as you call it with things like that. While I'm putting out an extreme example, there would be people contemplating doing it. If I wanted multiple houses and could afford it, you bet I would do something like that. It's extreme sure, but if I really want something that much, I do whatever it takes (in the pursuit of determination to achieve something I have a history of making myself physically ill from overexertion. Let that sink in for a moment. This should highlight the level of determination and persistence I am talking about). Even if it means extreme examples like the one I listed. I can't be the only person with that mentality. The reason you don't see it happening currently is because it isn't needed, but let's take a more reasonable amount. 8 different emails, 8 service accounts (to match standard sub characters per realm limits). You'd see that happening a lot more if your scenario was implemented as people would simply find ways around the limitations. Wouldn't be everyone, but you'd see a significant uptake in that happening. More money for SE sure, but they're still hoarding.

Thank you for the response.

I am glad to see this however I hope they only make it 1 personal house (I went harder with my opinion once personal housing was released), and 1 FC house per service account, per server and or per Data Center at this point. Apartments should have the ability to be upgraded just incase some would prefer an apartment over a house. If a personal house, it should be shared between your alts and maybe 1 or 2 tenants of your choosing with them having the ability to reset the demolition timer.

I mainly say the last one because my hubby and I share a house, and the house is in my name, but there are times where I do fall quite ill. So he tends to upkeep it when I'm sick.

But since the release of housing, even when it was still FC only, we were still on Gilgamesh at the time and there were still instances of people owning multiple houses with "multiple" FC's. Though back then it was a lot more pricey to obtain. This sadly is still a problem to this day, just like people with more alts than a single character owning multiple personal and or FC housing. So if they do change the way the system works, they owner (s) of multiple houses on one account should at least have so many days to choose which personal and or which FC house they want to keep. Though I'm a bit biased on reimbursement for the multiples they owned, but that's probably just me. Then again, I don't typically award (reward) for folk being greedy.

If they really wanted something else to decorate they could have just gone the route to buy an apartment on their alts. Sure not as much space, but if you've played as long as I have and remembered as much as I do... you'll remember when an FC room was the closest thing you ever had to an apartment space wise, lol.