Horrifyingly bad experience

[LalafellDown]

At least there is a chance for everyone to pick up the house. I mean the previous way I didn’t even get to see what a plot on sale even looked like. Was able to pick up a house one day by randomly checking and the plot was open.

[Elkanah]

Honestly, the best time to consider buying a house (when hardly anyone is doing so), is when there's no new patches going on or content drought for the few months. Other than the hardcore endgame players doing the highest content, most of the casuals will fall off by week 6-8 when they have all their gear (either by raid normal/endgame) or tomestones. This is about the time you want to start looking for houses. I've done this three times on three separate datacenters (aether > primal > crystal) and was able to buy a house without standing in front of the plaque and clicking it.

Alternatively, right as a maintenance period goes live is another time you want to be standing in front of the house and purchasing it the moment the server gets back up (as some houses come up within their timers on time). But if you're standing there when its a busier server (and closer to a new patch release), the housing market is gonna go back up. So be patient, and pick a time that's easiest rather than longest. Settle for an apartment for now, and go from there. With new wards being added in, it's only gonna get more difficult till next patch fall off (or several months before new expansion release).

[TheForce]

This is an exceptionally unfair thing to say. You almost make it sound like had they enough sense to come earlier then they would have a house.

Housing is the only content in the game in which you can meet all the prerequisites to engage in it but you still cannot participate because there is limited supply. In fact such a system is exceptionally rare these days in gaming.

No one should be told they aren't allowed to complain about it when they have no reason to know about it unless they actually play the game (referring to "if they came to FFXIV earlier") and when they are literally paying for access to all the content in the game but they are roadblocked by bad design, not their own shortcomings.

This idea that players are not allowed to complain simply because of when they began playing or wanting to get a house is downright awful.

Gotta stop you right there. I wanna focus on what you said about "paying for access to all the content in the game." Some of you guys really, really need to stop throwing around the misconception that paying a sub entitles to you to every single piece of content in the game. The ONLY thing paying a sub guarantees you is access/entrance to the game. That is it. I'm not trying to say you don't deserve a house/apt or anything like that, everybody should have a place to call theirs, but please stop trying to use the fact that you pay a sub as reasoning for why you should be guaranteed one. That's not how it works.

[Roda]

As a homeowner and someone with an fc with a house, I'd gladly give up both of those plots to have the housing system completely scrapped and re-done in a more enjoyable manner.

[ERMITANYO]

Hopefully the Ishgardian Firmament hosts a form of instanced housing that will serve as a starter home for everyone in the FFXIV community, that is appealing and functional.

As a homeowner and someone with an fc with a house, I'd gladly give up both of those plots to have the housing system completely scrapped and re-done in a more enjoyable manner.

[Jojoya]

Would it truly destroy server stability to add maybe 3-5 wards on extremely congested worlds/servers? It seems like just that small gesture would alleviate a lot of complaints. If something like this is out of reach, they need to invest in some sort of overhaul of what they are running on. I know this isn't a simple process, but this game is pulling how much a month? Put a bit more back in I say!

If it's not a server thing, then maybe they intend for this kind of exclusivity? I don't get it, but I'm not the one in charge or know what's going on.

Edit: This is happening in 5.1, lmao. wewlad. Well, if the problem persists on especially populated worlds, they should consider adding more. Just correct the problem as it arises.

They can't add wards only to certain worlds. It's all worlds or no worlds. If they could limit it only to the worlds that needed more wards, things would be in better shape.

[EnigmaticDodo]

They can't add wards only to certain worlds. It's all worlds or no worlds. If they could limit it only to the worlds that needed more wards, things would be in better shape.

Why can't it be done to only certain worlds? Did they specify why?

[Kenky]

Why can't it be done to only certain worlds? Did they specify why?

How the servers are set up. If one server gets X, then they all need to get X, because they're all running on the same system. On top of that, SE probably doesn't want to (And neither do many companies nowadays) make choices that could hurt them in the long run.

Think about it. If you want a house in the game, why not move to one of the few servers that has 10+ more wards than other servers? That would cause congestion and we go right back to servers crashing entire data-centers, because of how many people are on there. It would be counter-intuitive and straight-up landmine-to-face catastrophe.

The only servers (That I know of) that are having the "housing crisis" are the US ones and some EU. Adding more wards wouldn't fix the issue we're having, only delay it while also causing another issue on the other data-centers, further diluting the housing market there and making it all the more of a deserted, unused waste of code and HDD space on the servers. It may not be much, but it adds up and I can only hope SE knows that wasting space is a huge no-no

But nobody really cares about those ramifications, now do they? They don't play on <Insert Oceanic server here> so they couldn't care how their state is. They only focus on what affects THEM personally. Sucks, huh?

[Vulcann]

Wife and I just got a house last night i still hate this and think the whole system is a bunch of garbage and needs to be redone. terrible design choice.