Thoughts on additional wards

[Furiea]

This is just a silly argument. People have friends and attachments to their servers. They shouldn't be forced to leave because of an awful system that allows one person to own sixteen houses. I have lived in big cities and you know what the only obstacle between you and house ownership is? Money. If you can afford to spend 2-4M on a New York City penthouse apartment, you will find one available. In fact, I can google the housing market in any major city worldwide and find housing. It may be far beyond my budget, but it's available. Such an option doesn't exist in FFXIV hence why people are upset. A friend and I currently have over 100M yet we can't buy a house unless it's from a scalper. A virtual MMO shouldn't have these issues; most don't. FFXIV has among the worst housing systems in the genre because it clings to the neighbourhood concept few people genuinely care about. There's a reason instanced housing is overwhelming popular in other MMOs.

you are right.. money... and if you can't offer 999999million gil or $1000 cold hard cash.... what do you do? move out of the server just like how people would move out of expensive big city... to an urban area where they can buy bigger house with less money/effort.... you can always make new firends and that's not even a problem with cross data center friend list, chat, and PT.

you Balmung people just don't get it... it's comical. LOL

my old server couldn't clear Titan EX for nothing... what did I do? move to another server that can.

[Krotoan]

you can always make new firends and that's not even a problem with cross data center friend list, chat, and PT.

you Balmung people just don't get it... it's comical. LOL

my old server couldn't clear Titan EX for nothing... what did I do? move to another server that can.

"lol you can make new friends, it's all about progression or nothing! "

Not everyone will value things with the same weights you do. If people want to hang out with their online friends in the overworld, being on the same server is the only option. The opportunity cost on Balmung for this is that they're subject to high competition for everything. This isn't the players problem though, it's the providers. THEY need to figure out how to deal with this. Offering free relocations and incentives solves this for people with little or no attachments to the server, but the rest? It's on the provider to improve their experience as long as the players are within the mechanics of the game.

Asking for a solution shouldn't be ridiculed. Offer an opposing viewpoint sure, but just laughing at people? Not useful.

[Enla]

All I want is for the to restrict accounts to one personal house and FC house per server going forward. Likewise, I want them to come up with a way for FC's to own apartments so they can reap the same benefits from the airships as other companies. Or at the very least devise some manner of specialized system for them to get housing such as the FC airship hub someone else suggested in another thread. I have more desires than that, such as properly instanced housing going forward, but I think a lot of these issues would be rectified if they put harsher restrictions so people can't own multiple plots. As well as a return fee of the initial, game mandated investment to give incentive to some to relinquish their plots after the fact who already had multiples.

[LalaRu]

My thought is that the requirements to buy a plot needs be revised in order to lessen the bad things happening.

My (questionable, ofc) suggests:

1) Single player can purchase only small plots
Don't want punish who wanna live in big ones, but limited resources are limited...

2) To purchase a medium or large plot, the FC needs have X or Y active players (defined as the number of FC players that have logged in a week) at the moment of purchase
No, you don't make a one-man FC to bypass 1)

3) The first purchase from a given IP address will lock future purchases from any account on same IP address for 30 minutes (relocations still permitted)
Goodbye bots (and alt accounts, ofc).
And I know, lot of people now complain they have brothers, sisters, friends, cousin, mum and dad, and all your family and family's friends playing at your home in the day of plot released for purchase. Deal with it.

[Zfz]

Honestly they don't have an excuse for "didn't forsee the demand".

They can easily mine the player data and see how many people are eligible for housing and have the gil on their characters yet don't have a house. The current wards are clearly not enough. If they have not analysed the data then clearly they are deliberately creating a shortage. They want to see players fighting for housing. They want that publicity.

Up to now they have done nothing that proves otherwise.