Thread: 4.2 Housing Update

Originally Posted by Rymm

Thank you for the confirmation Luxpheras, you cleared up a lot of confusion floating around on the forum. For the record, I think allowing hoarders to keep their collection of houses is a terrible idea, pretty much for all the reasons outlined here and in other threads. It's just my small opinion, but I figured I would express it since you are still taking feedback.

If they ever set up instanced housing for personal and FC use it won't make a difference. I really hope they do something like this because the current housing situation is a crap design no matter how many rules you create.

Originally Posted by Luxpheras

Greetings,



Yoshida mentioned during the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLI that the rules being added in Patch 4.2 will be applicable to new purchases only. Players who already possess more than one FC estate and 1 personal estate per world will not lose their existing housing.

We appreciate all the feedback shared so far and will continue to pass your thoughts along to the dev. team!

Well if that's the case then it's too little too late, Especially when some idiots own whole wards or a house on each alt.

Originally Posted by Khalithar

They need to lose their additional houses. This rule is fantastic, however it needs to be applied retroactively otherwise it's a hollow gesture. Now obviously, let them select the house they want to keep and give them a full 100% refund of all their gil and items but they need to lose any other houses they own.

why multi home owners broke no rules..and do you think there gonna give back real life money people spent on mog staiion items like wallpapers n flooring. and please for the sake of arguemnt tell me what im gonna do with 440 items i cant sell or place any where cause i all ready have a house full..you gonna give me the gil i paid for the items when i bought them?? like the bearskin rug that was 4mil+ now 200k..Or the price there worth now which is nothing cause the markets flooded due to materials being cheap

Originally Posted by Khalithar

They need to lose their additional houses. This rule is fantastic, however it needs to be applied retroactively otherwise it's a hollow gesture. Now obviously, let them select the house they want to keep and give them a full 100% refund of all their gil and items but they need to lose any other houses they own.

You people make me laugh. Why should I lose my additional houses when i obviously didnt break a single rule? Please explain that to me.

Originally Posted by Rinuko

You people make me laugh. Why should I lose my additional houses when i obviously didnt break a single rule? Please explain that to me.

Somehow taking away houses means a fix the housing shortage even though the numbers don't come close to working in their favor. Facts like the Devs deliberately designing personal housing to work the way they did and that housing owners haven't actually broken any rules or done anything wrong is irrelevant to them.

Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

Facts like the Devs deliberately designing personal housing to work the way they did and that housing owners haven't actually broken any rules or done anything wrong is irrelevant to them.

And there's absolutely no way SE could compensate for time/effort/money spent on furniture. Even if the person got to keep the furniture they can't sell it (binded), likely wouldn't have inventory space to hold it and wouldn't have a house to store it in.

Better to just leave the people alone who did nothing wrong, they can't buy any additional plots, only lose them due to inactivity over time.

Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

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The housing system the way it is currently designed will never satisfy the player base.

Even if there were enough houses that everyone could have 2 houses per account, you would then have people bickering about how X player has a large mansion and they "never decorate it enough" or that "it's private and not FC, only FCs should own large houses!".

SE needs to stop adding wards and just work on giving every player access to instanced housing. Convert apartments into houses with yards or give people yards via the rooftop of the apartment building if they want to keep in lore with apartment buildings.

The current housing system is crap and no amount of rules will fix it.

Originally Posted by Rinuko

You people make me laugh. Why should I lose my additional houses when i obviously didnt break a single rule? Please explain that to me.

If you go to a party with a buffet, and then eat the whole thing, you haven't broken any rules. After all, the point of a buffet is to eat as much as you want, right? That doesn't change the fact that the rest of the party goers are sad, because they didn't get any food. You knew they were there, and you ate all of the food anyway, even though you knew they'd like some, too.

No rules have been broken, but you are still a bad person for doing it. You've exploited a system's flaws for personal gain at the expense of others. Is it the fault of the system, or the fault of the exploiters? Yes, to both.