Quote Originally Posted by Dustytome View Post
We haven't been directly told Ishgard housing is coming at all. The restoration effort is supposed to come with 5.1 unless they're required to push it back. The restoration effort was described as server wide and you'll supposedly be able to earn rewards from contributions. I was surprised they'd make the restoration server wide and I hope players coming in later still get to experience the transformation. I think if Ishgard housing is released it will likely still be a separate pre-announced opening, it will be the usual ward system, people will be reselling the larger plots for hundreds of millions of gil immediately after and the forum will blow up with disappointed housing enthusiasts that didn't get a plot because they got stuck in server queue or kicked from game just before they could get through the placard menu.

I honestly don't think there's a best way for the devs to handle the system they've created. It started off strangling itself when it was on paper. It has been and always will be a supply problem between general supply, district, specific plot locations and size. None of that should be an issue in a digital environment, but they artificially created and continued with that issue from the start. Yoshi was asked in one of the interviews what one thing he'd do differently was and his response was housing. It was a simple response, but I personally interpret it as kind of a "We're stuck with this now" response.

I remember hearing them, either doing the fan-fest mention something something about the possibility of housing eventually being tied to the restoration effort, but I could be wrong as I tend to cycle through certain Youtubers to get a translation of the live letters. So I may have heard it from one of them, which would mean they put out wrong and false information. So my apologies for the assumption if I'm wrong.