Auto-demolish

[Skivvy]

TLDR - Auto demolition is a good thing, if you say its not, you are wrong. Thats all there is to it.

I dont even think the auto demolition should have been halted because of those disasters (im sure people in that situation have alot more to worry about than a virtual house) but yoshi and team decided to be kind enough to do it, so thats that.


If you dont play the game for a month or two, you dont need a house. Fact.

One day you will learn the difference between an opinion and actual facts. Today is not that day.

[LeeraSorlan]

One day you will learn the difference between an opinion and actual facts. Today is not that day.

Its not an opinion that housing demolition is needed with the way the current housing exists, its a fact.

Its not an opinion that if you arent playing the game, you arent using your house, and you dont need the house, and someone else can use that house more than you ever will. its a fact.

[Jadub2k]

(apologize for the long /rant, wasn't my intention)

I've already stated my feelings on this topic months ago while also being a victim of demo (shared house), so I'll just leave this here
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...85#post4113485

While I do believe demo IS needed for the current situation of housing in XIV, how they've implemented a few things only makes it frustrating for players. At this point there pretty satisfied with band-aiding the problem, it's so widespread now and they keep adding on to the problem lol I think we can all (or at least most of us) agree that putting Player/FC housing together is a huge problem and most likely a mistake. And just maybe instance housing would be the best way to go in a already HEAVILY INSTANCED game.

"IF" they were to consider this route, there are many ways they can go about it. Few ideas I've had for example... They could make personal housing instanced and give you your own plot of land to do whatever you want with it (gardening etc.) and keep the wards for FC's. Or... (something I'd like to see but doubtful) They could also completely remove FC from the wards, make the wards exclusive to player housing (with Apt's still), and introduce Guild/FC Halls for FC's to design however they want using FC Credits (Let's be serious.. There are possibly TONS of FC that are sitting on thousands, if not millions of credits with nothing to do with them lol)

FC's really do need some kind of support here because some (if not most) FC's are not taken seriously if they do not own a house. It should not be that way at all and it's sad that some people are actually looking at it that way. On the flip side. Player housing also needs help due to a feature they implemented that defeats itself (in my link above), when FC houses can have a random person walk in and save it. On top of knowing that what happened in Shirogane actually made people quit the game entirely.

I totally understand that for a lot of people, Housing is unimportant and doesn't mean anything. Totally understandable. But for others, its part of the experience. An exp that every person subbed to this game is paying for and may never get a chance to experience it. Unless your ok with just an Apt (aka Mog house lol)

Somehow, someway, this system needs to change.

[JunseiKei]

I agree with this. And I think the mindset and treatment comes from how huge of a failure 1.0 was. I feel like SE probably thinks there's no point in investing a ton of resources in a newer version of the game that single-handedly almost destroyed the Final Fantasy name, and, as a result of their behavior, it's very likely they'll set themselves up for a "self-fulfilling prophecy", in which the game doesn't reach anywhere near its potential because they won't let it/invest the resources in it. And it will come off as subpar in their eyes as a result, just like they initially believed.

This is all speculation though, of course.

I'd wish they'd dump more into FFXIV and Yoshida and Team's hands. Rather it go to them than putting someone like Nomura in charge of multiple projects and possibly ruining the title due to such a decision. *Eyeing FXV and wearily watches FFVIIR.* Not saying it's entirely Nomura's fault, but SE has been making some rather........... questionable.... decisions in that regard. Why are you stacking even more work on one employee when you have others that are just as willing and probably show promise?

I also completely blame Kingdom Hearts to a degree. I swear, because the game sold stupidly well in the West, it changed what SE thinks we want. I can't help but notice how similarly FFXV and KH play. Both series spanning over various types of games and consoles (well, PS4 and mobile for FFXV) to tell a whole story that really could have been told in one, longer game (in the case of FFXV). Get ready for FFXV 1.5 and FFXV 1.8.

Housing should really be instanced. I don't mean the house is instanced and the ward its own instance. I mean the whole thing should be instanced, much like an apartment, with your plot of land there for you to customize. FCs should be in the main city and there should be a "guild hall" like building. Trust me, I love how the Goblet looks now especially, but if it came to having an FC or personal house for all or keeping my hotspring in the desert? Uh, FC/housing for all, yes please. Give me the Goblet as a place I can choose as a basic environment for my instanced land.

On to the topic, don't really think the auto demolition should be quite back up yet. Puerto Rico is still reeling from the hurricane with some cities still running on generators. Not to mention asinine laws that were put in place via the USA that made getting aid to the island an actual hassle. I'm sure PR's player population is low, so in the end it doesn't matter, it just still sucks for those that can't do anything about it. At least the team was kind enough to suspend it in the first place. CAT5 hurricanes are not the norm.

[Ayer2015]

Auto demolish is needed with a limited supply, as many have already stated. If someone isn't playing the game for an extended period, someone who is financially supporting the game should have the opportunity for that unused plot.

[JunseiKei]

Auto demolish is needed with a limited supply, as many have already stated. If someone isn't playing the game for an extended period, someone who is financially supporting the game should have the opportunity for that unused plot.

I just want to poke a hole in that statement, because I can, otherwise it serves as a misconception that those that lose their houses don't keep paying a sub. You can still pay for a sub in the game and lose your house because you have to physically walk into it every 45 days.

[Ayer2015]

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I think their being cautious about the game is reasonable. Given how many MMOs have failed over the years, 1.0 included, it makes sense to to conservative with how much funding it being directed to the game. When HW launched, they were surprised by the level of success it had, and yet again with SB. Perhaps we will see larger investment in the future. After HW they did get a larger degree of funding for SB.

That said, while I understand the demand for housing.... I would rather see increased funding going to development of repeatable, long term content and a wider range of character and armor models. IMO housing wards need to be nearly completely overhauled. More ghost town wards, don't make much sense.