Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
1. It's a good option but... just imagine, that all active characters on Ragnarok (more than 12 thousands according to FFXIVCensus site) will buy a house. And it's only those who finished 4.1 MSQ. And same on all servers. What kind of load will it be for Data Centers? Is it worth?

3. 1-man FCs can't buy houses already, it was changed in 4.2 when there was a nightmare with housing. They need to have at least 4 people in it and be 6th level at least if I remember correct. Same as players can't buy more than one private house per World as well (though if they had it earlier then it can't be helped, SE will not take away houses that were bought).

UPD. patch note about changings in housing system: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...33e139e9792abf
It is worth it for the simple reason this it’s an experience SE created for the players, not for “some” players, and as it stands now there’s a very limited slice of population that can really experience housing as it was intended to be. This is not endgame content we’re talking about. It’s not an extremely hard duty that only few select people can do at launch.

As for the one man FCs, the workaround to it was found ages ago. Create a dummy FC, boost it to needed rank, buy house, invite buyer to FC, get paid, empty FC. Bam. Done. There’s a whole subreddit of house sellers and buyers. There’s a whole ward on Ragnarok in the Mist that is basically owned by one person only, and it has been like that for ages.

@Dustytome: there will always be people trying to cheat the system, but that is not an excuse for not doing anything (or even making things worse, as it happened with the updates to the housing system). With the amount of subscribers that we have, not to mention the sale of additional items (the whales alone can probably cover it), I can’t believe SE doesn’t have the resources for something like this.