Canceling Account

[Ossi]

After 810 days as a subscriber I'm canceling my account. My waiting and patience has reached an end for trying to get a house in this game.

My last attempt in working with Square was an offer to transfer to any server from Balmung for my spouse and myself, for any house. A simple fix, but the request was ignored.

And finally after seeing the results of the recent patch, I have no desire to give anything more to this game.

This company will not get one more cent from me.

[Kohlian]

See you next month

[Zsolen]

You could have moved to a preferred server, formed a FC with your wife and two others, and then bought a house there.

[Dualblade]

Are the free transfers to underpopulated servers still going? It had been for atleast a month when SB came out, plenty of time to change servers just for housing. Here on Zalera a friend transfered to one of the new Goblet plots. When they logged off to go to sleep they still were the ONLY house in that ward. The only place that was filling up was Shirogane and even then there were plenty of smalls and mediums.

[Mikki]

Are the free transfers to underpopulated servers still going? It had been for atleast a month when SB came out, plenty of time to change servers just for housing. Here on Zalera a friend transfered to one of the new Goblet plots. When they logged off to go to sleep they still were the ONLY house in that ward. The only place that was filling up was Shirogane and even then there were plenty of smalls and mediums.

Fellow Zaleran here.
Just wanted to chime in saying that last I checked (just the other day) there were still TONS of houses in EVERY housing area on Zalera. There are even larges and mediums in Lavender Beds and I saw mediums still available in Shirogane.Tons of smalls everywhere. I really don't get it... if people are so set on having a house - so much so that they will QUIT if they can't - then for the love of the twelve, MOVE TO A SMALL SERVER. Small servers are so much nicer anyway imo. It's like a community where most people know each other.

[Dualblade]

Fellow Zaleran here.
Just wanted to chime in saying that last I checked (just the other day) there were still TONS of houses in EVERY housing area on Zalera. There are even larges and mediums in Lavender Beds and I saw mediums still available in Shirogane.Tons of smalls everywhere. I really don't get it... if people are so set on having a house - so much so that they will QUIT if they can't - then for the love of the twelve, MOVE TO A SMALL SERVER. Small servers are so much nicer anyway imo. It's like a community where most people know each other.

An update on my friends paticular wards: One person has moved in. So TWO houses have been taken with the rest of the ward still free in atleast on Goblet area!

[Tridus]

Fellow Zaleran here.
Just wanted to chime in saying that last I checked (just the other day) there were still TONS of houses in EVERY housing area on Zalera. There are even larges and mediums in Lavender Beds and I saw mediums still available in Shirogane.Tons of smalls everywhere. I really don't get it... if people are so set on having a house - so much so that they will QUIT if they can't - then for the love of the twelve, MOVE TO A SMALL SERVER. Small servers are so much nicer anyway imo. It's like a community where most people know each other.

And how long will those be there once people are, you know, allowed to buy them?

[Mikki]

And how long will those be there once people are, you know, allowed to buy them?

Probably for a long time. When 4.1 first was released, even hours after the patch there were still houses available in some wards - only smalls but even still that's amazing considering how much hype there was, how many people transferred specifically for housing and how it was only one single new housing area. In fact, I think I even saw a couple straggler houses left even as far as a few days later and I still saw a couple small houses in Lavender Beds weeks later. So my guess is that there will still be plenty of houses on this server even after housing opens up to individuals. Especially with the new restrictions in place of only 1 house per server per service account.

Many people on Zalera do not craft, so most don't have the funds for housing to begin with. I gave away so much gil to friends so they could purchase small houses which they otherwise would not have been able to. A friend of mine ended up getting a house in Lavender beds something like two weeks after the patch. Demolition timers were on pause so it was literally just a house that no one took (I believe transfers were still locked; Zalera was a preferred world and transferring from a preferred world was locked if I'm remembering right. If not, it could have been a transfer but either way there were tons of houses available way after the patch went live, giving everyone plenty of time to grab something).

According to the census for January 2018, there are about 6,300 active players on Zalera. In total, there are 4,320 houses + apartments. Many people aren't interested in houses and/or are happy with apartments. Another large portion of those players won't be able to keep a house due to the fact that a constant subscription is required. Yet even more will be blocked out from having a lack of gil. Some won't need their own home, due to sharing with a friend/partner or being happy with just using the FC home. I'm quite certain that Zalera will have a wealth of homes for quite some time to come.

[Zigabar]

Fellow Zaleran here.
Just wanted to chime in saying that last I checked (just the other day) there were still TONS of houses in EVERY housing area on Zalera. There are even larges and mediums in Lavender Beds and I saw mediums still available in Shirogane.Tons of smalls everywhere. I really don't get it... if people are so set on having a house - so much so that they will QUIT if they can't - then for the love of the twelve, MOVE TO A SMALL SERVER. Small servers are so much nicer anyway imo. It's like a community where most people know each other.

They can still stay in a populated server and get a house. Gilgamesh has quite a few houses available still. Even a few mediums last I checked a couple days ago. (Not that we need any Balmung refugees :^) )

[Mikki]

They can still stay in a populated server and get a house. Gilgamesh has quite a few houses available still. Even a few mediums last I checked a couple days ago. (Not that we need any Balmung refugees :^) )

Hmm..that's surprising! But if they want their "pick of the litter" then Zalera is their best bet! It's actually the lowest population server on the NA datacenters according to the census (yet for some reason is no longer a preferred world). Basically the only plots you definitely aren't getting are plots 8, 16 and 30 in Shirogane. All others are likely possible.

But that's great to hear Gilgamesh still has some houses available. Not sure how quickly they'll be snatched up on Gilg as soon as personal housing comes out though.