Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

I feel like this thread should be sticky'd, at least temporarily.

Originally Posted by Linadae

I am a bit concerned over the secret changes to the way housing is purchased but one solution is staring you in the face, Yoshi-p. Apartments. Allow us to add tenants, and give us the ability to buy improvements. As a suggestion:

Stage one: Standard apartment room, allows one tenant to be added...[snip].

I just wanted to add that I really love this idea and think it should be considered.

I had a lot of friends who missed out on getting a house. I would love to see them get that opportunity next patch. I wish a permanent solution was found, but I understand that there are limitations and drawbacks with the setup for housing FFXIV has. I look forward to hearing the ideas you have implemented for rolling out the next opportunity for housing.

Thank you for listening to us I don't see the words "a few add wards" so happy will more wards adds than 30th! my dream is come true!

i would open up the idea for apartments to be able to upgrade their rooms to have an outdoor personal space to have for their own gardening and mini outdoor decorations, and the option to upgrade the room to have a personal workshop access.

it will give the choice to people who want the content, or want a full house.

plus this will give more utility and demand for apartments and you will see more people in these areas too

apartments with option to add 2 additional content rooms? winning for everyone

and a cheaper solution for people to get into end game materials removing a big gil cost for newer or less wealthy people

Look, i get that you were going for that neighborhood appeal, but this lack of housing is insane. Although i love FFXIV, the personal housing in this game is terrible. The best housing system i have played in an MMO comes from EQ2. I would suggest you check it out. The have neighborhoods. You can own as many houses as you want -and so can EVERYONE else - people can visit. All your alts can be apart of all of your houses and you can have like 10 tenants with full access to your home. Even the apartments have places to grow plants. Some even have patios. And storage abilities are awesome. Shared spaces for you and your alts. They even have separate Guild Halls specifically for Guilds. Although they don't have private chambers and i think that is awesome in this game. I don't see why instancing them is such a big deal when in realty they already are. click on the door and pop into your attached Guild Hall or house.

A large group of my in-game friends had this crazy plan to all try to buy into the same ward in Shirogane. We drew up a map, and planned out who was going to run where when it opened so that we weren't competing with each other, because, imagine this, we wanted to be neighbors in-game! Of my 30 friends who planned to buy in the main division of Ward 9 on my server, only seven of us actually got houses there, and this on Brynhildr, the littlest of servers, with a far better outcome than most people (I'm sure) who tried the same thing.

I would LOVE to see some feature that made it easier for us to accomplish this. For example, if an FC could buy a WARD, I would have paid through the NOSE to secure those plots. Name a price, I would have paid it. We have a couple of people whose personal houses are in the same ward as one another's, and it's fun and awesome to tour each other's housing. There's something special about going across the street to your friend's house.

At this point, I hope he'll just make 500 wards so that this will never be brought up again for a long time.

Thank you for listening to us and giving us a response Yoshi-P! ♡

I thought I was losing faith by seeing no devs reply to any of the housing issues..... but for Yoshi to give an announcement now... I think I have some hope of getting a house in 4.2. THANK YOU, YOSHI!

It should have been instanced housing from the start. It would have been less of a mess that we see now, people would have a goal to work toward, and no one would feel they were being treated unfairly. We've all said how the current system is broken and doesn't work. Adding more wards will never fix the issue. Unless it is instanced then you need to limit how many houses a person can own because then they will end up being an entire ward like two certain people on a new server.