Thread: 4.2 Housing Update

Originally Posted by Sairys

There are FCs that want to get a house to get the benefits they convey for an FC, but that group of people is being told that they need to suck it up because someone really needs to have a cute library for their scholar alt while their warrior needs a trophy den. Because the one player would feel sad if they lost their two houses?
But somehow that one person is more important than the group of people that are frustrated/upset/angry?

I never stated that I thought that one group was more important that the other one. Sadly, with the housing system it's just like I said, 'first come, first served'. As hard as that may sound. But it would be the same the other way around.

Imagine that scholar who dreams of his 'own cute library' and really wants it, prepared for it and gathered all the money by himself, but gets outrun by that FC that prepared aswell. In that case that scholar need to suck it up just as well.
You wouldn't want to tell the FC that they have to give up their house for the benefit of the scholar, right? Then, why do it the other way around? Because the scholar already has another house, or an appartement, or a room in his FC's house? They both had the same chance of getting a house in this case. The other party was just a tad more lucky. Who are we to say who deserves it more?

Sadly that's what housing is in FFXIV. To change this, the _whole_ system would need a complete change that would probably result in taking all houses away, and install instanced housing or something like that, and I guarantee you that there would be a big uproar if they suddenly decided to do this.

Long story short, I just can't stand behind the idea of taking things from people they have owned for a while just 'for the greater good of the majority'. In my eyes it's plainly wrong, while in your eyes it might just be the best choice they can make at this point. I guess we just stand on different moral points there.

Edit: Also, with the new system added, it's almost guaranteed that each FC who wants a house will get one. Even the ones with less then 4 people; all they have to do is recruit a few players beforehand which isn't that much work tbh. :P