We need another Housing purge

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TLDR; There are people with more time and money than any country's gdp combined. Sub games is not "immune" againsts P2W, it's just more visible on F2P. Have you no control, young man? /thread

I don't like instanced housing but I'm also aware FC has no value in this game. Some FCs like to take entire ward to have this false sense of community value, same with people with both personals and FC housing. Their choice and they're right because the game allow it. For now, you can ignore it OP. Until SE understand the meaning of the word "massive" in MMO, there's not much players can do. They will always use the server limitation excuse when zone is instanced already.

[Pastahnak]

Maybe high pop people need to consider low pop servers if they really want a house. There's really nothing to do with a personal house besides play The Sims: FF14 edition and grow krakka roots.

[Cylla]

Maybe high pop people need to consider low pop servers if they really want a house. There's really nothing to do with a personal house besides play The Sims: FF14 edition and grow krakka roots.

Stop with the "high pop" server crap already. All your doing, just like SE, is using it as an excuse. Low pop, High pop, it doesn't matter. It a problem regardless. Even people on low pop servers are doing it, they just aren't noticed like the higher population servers.

[Cylla]

What are you talking about?
It does matter.
There is simply no system can satisfy the Balmung with such monesteric size of population

Stop with the "high pop" server crap already. All your doing, just like SE, is using it as an excuse. Low pop, High pop, it doesn't matter. It a problem regardless. Even people on low pop servers are doing it, they just aren't noticed like the higher population servers.

Please read. Thanks.

*edit - Let not go there with the whole Balmung thing as if I don't know what going on there. I moved off Balmung about two weeks ago. It isn't just Balmung suffering, so let just stop there and agree that it a problem for every server be it low or high pop.

[Hamada]

Are you posting with your own alt characters to give your own posts more likes? Like really?

I like how they use the other 2 accounts to cheer themselves on.

Having read more, I've changed my mind. If you can now purchase multiple FC houses the rules do need to be tightened.
As to the actions described in the first sentence, surely that is an exploit? It goes against the spirit of the restrictions even if it was technically 'legal'.

It is not legal, SE flat out says in the ToS:

2.1 Cheating and Botting. You may not create or use any unauthorized cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized software or hardware designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay.

So they clearly explained here how they broke this:

Correct, I did have to transfer ownership from service account #3 to my service account #2, #1 already being loaded with 9 houses when they doubled the amount of wards.

So by FC ownership transferring, they exploited that "loophole" and SE flat out says not to do so.

[Divinemights]

Low pop, High pop, it doesn't matter. It a problem regardless. Even people on low pop servers are doing it, they just aren't noticed like the higher population servers.

What are you talking about?
It does matter.
There is simply no system can satisfy the Balmung with such monesteric size of population

[Skivvy]

There is simply no system can satisfy the Balmung with such monesteric size of population

Not true at all. SE didn't have to create housing as a finite source. Instanced housing is a thing in many games, and could work in XIV as well. As it is now, most wards, even on Balmung, are practically dead. What is the point of them? And even with instanced housing, there are ways to make it so you can still have neighbors and a hangout spot for your friends/FC members as seen in other games.

However, SE is just continuing to double-down on their shoddy housing system, and this is the result we get. Sure, the immediate issue of no available housing is currently just an issue for high-population servers, however, it's still a horrible system that should probably be overhauled. This is a subscription game, and it's pathetic that all players cannot have their own housing if they wish.

[Enla]

Not true at all. SE didn't have to create housing as a finite source. Instanced housing is a thing in many games, and could work in XIV as well. As it is now, most wards, even on Balmung, are practically dead. What is the point of them? And even with instanced housing, there are ways to make it so you can still have neighbors and a hangout spot for your friends/FC members as seen in other games.

However, SE is just continuing to double-down on their shoddy housing system, and this is the result we get. Sure, the immediate issue of no available housing is currently just an issue for high-population servers, however, it's still a horrible system that should probably be overhauled. This is a subscription game, and it's pathetic that all players cannot have their own housing if they wish.

Not to mention it's a ticking time bomb if this game ever needs to do server merges. I know that's a long ways off and something no one ever wishes to think about, but what's SE going to do when they have to merge down servers and people happen to own the same plot on the servers affected? Normally I wouldn't be worried, but this game has such an epidemic of spaghetti code that I can easily see that as being a gigantic issue that either will require one person losing out on their plot, both for the sake of 'fairness', or just an entire reset of the wards to avoid the hassle entirely.

Frankly I don't quite understand the aversion to instanced housing. Especially since the one other game I've played that had FF14's system, LoTRO, had all the same problems we're having here. The only difference is that they could have hundreds of wards per housing area with nary an issue. But in fairness to FF14, LoTRO is exceedingly old and not very resource heavy, so that isn't necessarily a point deduction in LoTRO's favor. It still didn't stop wards from essentially being dead there however.

[Alleo]

Not true at all. SE didn't have to create housing as a finite source. Instanced housing is a thing in many games, and could work in XIV as well.

Next to instanced housing, they could have also made instanced apartments which the feature to buy more and more rooms so that you can have as much housing space as you want. Or they could have given private housing the feature to buy rooms..and also give all the feature to buy more than one room. So if you are a small FC or own a small privat house you can just get more rooms by buying more thus you also have a gil sink.

In the end they put out lots of rewards and crafting items for housing but there is still not enough demand for everyone owning a house..

[OliverB]

I like how they use the other 2 accounts to cheer themselves on.
So by FC ownership transferring, they exploited that "loophole" and SE flat out says not to do so.

Sorry to shatter your little dream, but I was guided here by friends. They most likely upvoted my posts. I can start upvoting myself if you want, or I can even go back and upvote the posts you think I upvoted myself.