Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Originally Posted by Acilith

Or ya know people just like to decorate. Or maybe RP .....

I guess I should have put RP into the original response, I had that figured into that but probably forgot to.

I'd rather play Sims for decorating personally, far more options but hey whatever floats someone's boat.

Originally Posted by Shouko

I guess I should have put RP into the original response, I had that figured into that but probably forgot to.

I'd rather play Sims for decorating personally, far more options but hey whatever floats someone's boat.

Well if you enjoy playing THIS game and they have housing and decoration why would you start playing a different game? hmmm

Originally Posted by Shouko

I guess I should have put RP into the original response, I had that figured into that but probably forgot to.

I'd rather play Sims for decorating personally, far more options but hey whatever floats someone's boat.

I have the Sims and play it regularly, I like playing ff14 and appreciate decorating in THIS game which is why I own a medium and small house. That's the end game for me and my girlfriend. Splashing our Gil on our properties.

This is my proposal:
In order for this idea to work, the housing plot cannot have size restrictions and a restriction to purchase another plot (if own one already) within 60 days account-wide.

Most players are content with a small size house. However, a certain percentage do want to increase to a medium or a large down the road.

Here is how:

Every plot starts as a cottage. If you wish to gain access to the bigger size house (house/mansion) then you can do an upgrade quest. It will cost you materials and gil (amount comparable to a medium or large cost.)

Progression: complete medium then can upgrade to large

Pro:
-Player customize their own housing size as the person mature
-Stay at preferred location without moving to another simply because of size
-Community determine their neighborhood size (whether they want all small/medium/large or mixed)
-Prevents flippers to target medium or large house for huge margin profit
-Limits alt abuse of buying plot through FC

Originally Posted by Outrack

This is unfair, it was released in a dismal state but not caring would mean no apology or proposed solution.

It's called good PR. There is no proposed solution, adding more wards does absolutely nothing to a system that will never work in this game. They added more wards in the past, many times, and even doubled them yet look where we are. Adding more wards just means most people will get screwed over a second time.

Originally Posted by Valinis

They added more wards in the past, many times, and even doubled them yet look where we are. Adding more wards just means most people will get screwed over a second time.

Exactly. SE has been receiving this sort of feedback for years and they're just now listening? The responses is anything but quick. We ALL knew that it was going to be a login bloodbath before 4.1 launched, and it was everything we expected. How the company can claim that they did not see this coming is completely false. See every expansion rollout and the queue times. See the huge amount of complaints in posts on this forum pointing out well in advance the issues that would arise.

And the idea that by providing less information will create less speculation is a good joke. Perhaps they should have said that while all decisions are still being considered, no details are available at this time.

Oh, and 4.2 is only like four months away. Please look forward to that wait.

Originally Posted by Valinis

It's called good PR. There is no proposed solution, adding more wards does absolutely nothing to a system that will never work in this game. They added more wards in the past, many times, and even doubled them yet look where we are. Adding more wards just means most people will get screwed over a second time.

You'd have a point if all he said was that they were adding more wards; the other issues were acknowledged and he expressed intentions to remedy them which at the very least shows that they do care. Implying otherwise is just petulant.

Whether the solutions are competent remains to be seen, but they aren't just brushing this off.

Originally Posted by Outrack

You'd have a point if all he said was that they were adding more wards; the other issues were acknowledged and he expressed intentions to remedy them which at the very least shows that they do care. Implying otherwise is just petulant.

Whether the solutions are competent remains to be seen, but they aren't just brushing this off.

Acknowledging problems does not mean they care. Fixing the problem (which they have failed to do for years now) means they care. They continue to waste time and resources on a broken foundation.

They had ample opportunity to fix this mess and they chose not to. They have no intention of creating a real solution.

Prove me wrong Yoshida, prove me wrong.