4.2 housing limitations

[Mizunoko]

In the prelim patch notes it says the following:

Players will be permitted to own only one private and one free company estate per World per service account.

It does not say purchase, instead it says "own" so i was wondering if this also applies to people who are already hoarding multiple private/fc plots somehow? Like maybe they will be forced to choose one of each to keep or something? I already have one of each myself so honestly i don't much care about the new plots or anything, however i am not a fan of people hoarding multiple plots while hundreds if not thousands of other players sit by and wish they had a house. It's about time SE recognized and actually did something about the lot of housing issues and so i'm asking this out of curiosity in hopes that this new limit of one private and one fc plot will somehow also be applied to people who already hoard multiple plots before the patch. I would appreciate all input on this subject. Thank you

[Dustytome]

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!

[Source]

It applies to purchases after patch, not current occupants.

[Mizunoko]

So unfortunately people who already hoard get a pass =S? welp that sucks Y_Y. Thanks for digging that info up for me ive seen that live letter but somehow missed that part i guess.

[Mirii_Chan]

Wtf... So basically this is gonna apply to wards 13 to 18. Honestly what a silly thing. And what about people flipping their old house on alt to new houses. Will they be stopped, will the system recognise this. Incoming 99% bot wards with that one poor guy who managed to actually get his dream house. Something has to be done about these selfish people

[Coratanni]

Wtf... So basically this is gonna apply to wards 13 to 18. Honestly what a silly thing. And what about people flipping their old house on alt to new houses. Will they be stopped, will the system recognise this. Incoming 99% bot wards with that one poor guy who managed to actually get his dream house. Something has to be done about these selfish people

All future house relinquish and sales will fall under restrictions regardless of wards. People who still own multiple houses will get to keep them but they will not be able to add or change what they have. And new people will not be able to do the same thing and collect multiple houses in the future. This is realistically the best you could have hoped for. Those that own multiple houses didn't break any rules.

[Dustytome]

And what about people flipping their old house on alt to new houses. Will they be stopped, will the system recognise this.

Restrictions were put in place for new purchases. If you're referring to moving plots, no restrictions were programmed for that so anyone (fc or personal) that already owns a plot can freely move to the open plots during the 'fc only' phase.

[Mizunoko]

All future house relinquish and sales will fall under restrictions regardless of wards. People who still own multiple houses will get to keep them but they will not be able to add or change what they have. And new people will not be able to do the same thing and collect multiple houses in the future. This is realistically the best you could have hoped for. Those that own multiple houses didn't break any rules.

It's understandable, however even if no rules were broken its still viable to say rules can always be changed, i mean they have been before. Also its not out of hand to say programmers can somehow make it so pre-existing owners get to choose which house to keep. I understand it might be a bit of a heavy topic since it may also sound wrong to force those hoarders to lose their extra plots, but at the same time hoarding should be wrong anyway shouldn't it? I'd like to think that since i already own one of each plot im not even being biased about it. I am just truly concerned for all those people who can't get a part of the game content (a house) simply because SE allowed greedy people to take them all up in the first place? Is that really so wrong of me to have that point of view?

[Dustytome]

I am just truly concerned for all those people who can't get a part of the game content (a house) simply because SE allowed greedy people to take them all up in the first place? Is that really so wrong of me to have that point of view?

If you check out the first few threads in the housing forum you'll see quite a bit of discussion on it already. This method took less programming vs spending a bunch of time programming checks, reminders, etc for a one-time purge.

[Mizunoko]

If you check out the first few threads in the housing forum you'll see quite a bit of discussion on it already. This method took less programming vs spending a bunch of time programming checks, reminders, etc for a one-time purge.

Yes meanwhile resources and time gets wasted on things like diadem xD? I really hope eureka doesn't end up the same =S. Regardless thank you for these links whenever i search i tend to somehow miss what i'm looking for =S.

[Final-Fantasy]

Plot reselling is basically dead after this update, though relocating still works without any limitation at all.