Housing Issues

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It's more of a bad storage/inventory system. SE keeps blaming it on old 1.0 code but this is stuff they could dedicate 1 programmer to just fix and in the end make the players happier and SE's servers smoother.

I don't think 1 programmer could fix the entire games backend, engine issues, and the like. That's just not feasible in any amount of time players would want. Cuz they could literally have that right now and you wouldn't know, cuz it'll take 5 years to fix

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

No one is actually making you move. You're moving because YOU don't want to be on the server you are currently on (RP is on every server--I'm guessing you're on Faerie, which will probably be the new RP server for Aether but it kind of already was, imo. Thats my home server). Housing was never transferable. Ever. However in this instance SE is giving you full plot value plus extra for the housing permit if you move. The storage issue sucks but if you don't want to deal with that, don't move. You can literally hang out on any other server, do duties, craft, gather etc. Even use FC chat. This is your time to vent and I respect it but SE can't be held accountable for the fact that you dont like where you live anymore. Just saying.

[supergiz]

How are we supposed to compete with all the people house botting? I feel like the only way to get a house is to luck out find one when it goes up and before anyone gets to it click on it with the lot timer being available. That or get on after a maintanance before anyone else.

It's ridiculous if I see people standing at a house I don't even bother trying half the time. Good chance they are clicking a mile a minute with a bot.

[Sunoske]

How are we supposed to compete with all the people house botting? I feel like the only way to get a house is to luck out find one when it goes up and before anyone gets to it click on it with the lot timer being available. That or get on after a maintanance before anyone else.

It's ridiculous if I see people standing at a house I don't even bother trying half the time. Good chance they are clicking a mile a minute with a bot.

I'm honestly not sure tbh, I was lucky enough to get mine on the first try with nobody by it.. Which was honestly pure freaking luck. I'm not defending SE on housing, it's a right mess. But this dude is trying to blame them for him making the choice to leave his house and server over something as silly as roleplay.

[cicatriz313]

How are we supposed to compete with all the people house botting? I feel like the only way to get a house is to luck out find one when it goes up and before anyone gets to it click on it with the lot timer being available. That or get on after a maintanance before anyone else.

It's ridiculous if I see people standing at a house I don't even bother trying half the time. Good chance they are clicking a mile a minute with a bot.

Not sure what this has to do with this post, but there's no way everyone at a placard is botting lol

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I am an IT professional for a fortune 500 and this is the most half baked, unplanned thing I have ever seen from a supposed professional company.

Um. This was planned months in advance (I wanna say at least since the begining of the year). Diagrams and multiple update posts have been released. The housing issue was addressed and their solution was to refund you for the plot and a little extra for the house (I assume for the permit) for relinquishing your land. I fail to see where this was poorly planned. Does it suck? For some, yes. I now have an alt on another datacenter that i can no longer have my fc help out. But its whatever. Im not sure where your salt is coming from. Housing was never transferable and you dont actually have to move. Im sorry for your loss but you chose to lose it.

[Rangar]

The player base has offered suggestions, demanded that SE open a dialogue, pleaded on their hands and knees; SE's response: SILENCE. SE doesn't even want to listen to the players. People are leaving the game over this, and still SE remains silent. You can understand people's frustration. SE basically said that people had to choose between the servers they live on versus the servers of players they do content with; and people are ending up losing on both counts which is making people bitter. And the longer SE doesn't even try to talk to people, the more of the community will leave.

[Sunoske]

The player base has offered suggestions, demanded that SE open a dialogue, pleaded on their hands and knees; SE's response: SILENCE. SE doesn't even want to listen to the players. People are leaving the game over this, and still SE remains silent. You can understand people's frustration. SE basically said that people had to choose between the servers they live on versus the servers of players they do content with; and people are ending up losing on both counts which is making people bitter. And the longer SE doesn't even try to talk to people, the more of the community will leave.

Statics and content still exist on every data center though. Those people who chose to leave decided to do so, they werent forced, and most did so much earlier on and were able to get houses. Once again this stigma that because balmung and mateus have roleplay that there would be no content was a player made excuse. This guy could have stayed on Diabolos and not have even dealt with any rpers... If this was his only reason, that they "Turned it into an RP server." It's quite childish.

[MPK]

Maybe you shouldve thought about that before you moved?

[Mailevelant]

As others have commented in this chain, it is less about the housing thing for me personally. It is more about Square Enix's complete lack of response to something that they knew was going to be an issue. They know people are botting to buy houses and they blatantly do nothing about it even though it violates the terms of the agreement for the game.

They instituted a ridiculous timing system to force people to spend hours upon hours waiting for a house to be available. If they did them in a true auction style fashion, then there wouldn't be an issue. You bid high enough, you get the land. Players on Playstation 4 are getting shafted because they have to spend hours and hours getting hand cramps and possibly carpal tunnel, just to try and land a house. PC users can just throw on a bot and land a house easily without even being on their machine.

No, we didn't have to move from the server, if we wanted to deal with "derping role players" but when your entire Free Company decides that it is the best course of action, you either go and get shafted by a broken housing system or be left to play on a server with none of your friends there with you, making it that much harder to get certain quests and achievements done.