Buying Houses is broken

[NimueZephyr]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVhousin...mall_33_38_39/

They're selling 24 houses as a packaged deal....
How is this fair to anyone that one person can manipulate the system this horribly? I've been playing 3 years and my fc still has no housing. This is just really upsetting and I wish square would at least look into this, because people like this are the reason the rest of us can't have housing....

[GU099]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVhousin...mall_33_38_39/

They're selling 24 houses as a packaged deal....
How is this fair to anyone that one person can manipulate the system this horribly? I've been playing 3 years and my fc still has no housing. This is just really upsetting and I wish square would at least look into this, because people like this are the reason the rest of us can't have housing....

There are only so few people that are able to achieve that many houses, so no this is not why the rest of you can't have housing. There are other reasons such as cost being too low and affordable to the general mass and inactive players being sure to log in when their demolition emails come in to prevent it on the last day.

[Toxin_Polaris]

There are only so few people that are able to achieve that many houses, so no this is not why the rest of you can't have housing. There are other reasons such as cost being too low and affordable to the general mass and inactive players being sure to log in when their demolition emails come in to prevent it on the last day.

you know i like the math hammer espacialy if people are bad at it 20 houses on one server equals routhly 0,5%(0,43%) not 0,005% of those 4320 Houses you only missed it by a potency of 100 good job, say there are 20 people that avarge at 10 houses on a server and you get 5%(4,3%) owned by 20 people

[GU099]

you know i like the math hammer espacialy if people are bad at it 20 houses on one server equals routhly 0,5%(0,43%) not 0,005% of those 4320 Houses you only missed it by a potency of 100 good job, say there are 20 people that avarge at 10 houses on a server and you get 5%(4,3%) owned by 20 people

You are absolutely correct. I completely just jumped right to listing the number as it was before turning it back into a percent.

So 0.5% of the houses on a single server, and 0.007% of the houses across all the servers. Thank you for making that very much needed correction.

Sadly we are still less than 1% total in both situations. I don't think it has really changed the argument much, but I certainly bow my head down to your proper corrections!

Edit: I have updated my signature and the graphic in the original post and have properly credited you! Thank you fellow housing colleague! I have given you a hearty like

[Pinworms]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVhousin...mall_33_38_39/

They're selling 24 houses as a packaged deal....
How is this fair to anyone that one person can manipulate the system this horribly? I've been playing 3 years and my fc still has no housing. This is just really upsetting and I wish square would at least look into this, because people like this are the reason the rest of us can't have housing....

That’s Mew FC and I have no idea how they are not banned from the game blatantly selling housing

[Besame]

If housing was advertised in a game and I could not get it, I'd simply cancel and play another game. Hit them where the money is and perhaps they will make changes because obviously complaining doesn't work.

[Misutoraru]

And leaves every player who was trying to get that house out in the cold except for one lucky person.

All a lottery does is change how the RNG works. It does nothing to solve the core problem.

Well at least it is 100% better than having you camping at the front gate and clicking god know how long and till some lucky one walk by and turn your days effort into nothing

[Jojoya]

Well at least it is 100% better than having you camping at the front gate and clicking god know how long and till some lucky one walk by and turn your days effort into nothing

But it put a massive delay in how long it takes for us to get a real fix for the situation because they've wasted time on something that should only be needed temporarily instead of spending that time on the real problem - the lack of housing to meet demand.

[Lyris-Lyanther]

Please turn off the relocating option for current house owners. If they want a more desirable spot, they should have to stand at the Placard and click it like an idiot like the rest of us and forfeit their other house. It is insane how much time we can stand at a plot trying to buy only to have them move in and restart the timer somewhere else. An insanely stupid decision.