Nope you didn't add enough plots SE...

[PureEclipse]

This was not even a good joke...of course humor is subjective..... I don't even think 6 wards would have done the trick and half the issue is not having stuff on timers....I for one say put the timers back on for demo.

[RajNish]

Shirogane. 10 minutes after the patch. All middle houses have been bought out. Dear developers, do you really think that three wards is an option?

[Shinzo]

well thats about it que right login 789 and all plots gone nice job se. i guess i take a breake until the next time plots are added

[BehindTheFlowers]

Wow! Another failed attempt and rage quit.
Since the housing came out I tried to get a plot. Each met with massive failour. Now stop trying to fix it by adding plots. Redo the system because this is starting to become embaressing for the whole game, and is only turning people away from the game.

Yes I rage quetted today. It was just to bad and really now its enough. The whole thing is so bad its not even hillarious any more. Its just a sad poor broken piece of the game that is amazingly allowed to stay alive

[RajNish]

All of this is because housing in FF XIV is like Battle Royale. To be honest, this is depressing and does not cause any desire to do it further. I don't know how the developers planned to support the existing player base by declaring a moratorium on transferring houses and adding only three wards.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

All of this is because housing in FF XIV is like Battle Royale. To be honest, this is depressing and does not cause any desire to do it further. I don't know how the developers planned to support the existing player base by declaring a moratorium on transferring houses and adding only three wards.

A battle royale that you get to play once every two years or so. I finally got a small house today, was lucky to get that, but I've never been fond of this system even though it can make a neighbourhood look pretty amazing. It has so many scalpers/people buying up lots of real estate, there's clearly way too few mediums/larges (SE really should have made Shirogane have double or triple the larges/mediums, same with Ishgard).

There is no questioning that housing is so important to a large number of players (if it weren't, you wouldn't have hundreds trying to get in on patch day with all new plots gone in 10-20 minutes). Not sure why they're so stubborn on this. I get that to people who don't care about housing at all this might seem silly, but imagine if this method were applied to any other part of the game.

Imagine if when a new MSQ comes out, only the first thousand players per server got to experience it. Imagine if when a new Ult/Ex/Savage came out, after 100 clears the raids were shut down and from then on nobody else was allowed to attempt it unless they'd cleared it already. Imagine if only players who queued for pvp on day one of ARR ever got to pvp for the entire remainder of the game unless one of those players stopped playing, at which point a spot would open up. It'd be utter BS, and we know it'd be utter BS, and it'd kill the interest of almost all players into those specific activities entirely- yet for some reason that's fine for housing?

[Hayden]

I new this was going to be a shit show from the moment they announced it. I didn't even try. No way was I waking up at 4am to have this patch downloaded so I could wait in the all famous "Squenix queue" to watch exactly what I knew would happen unfold.

I can't even get mad at the shit show that is housing anymore. I've just accepted it.

[RajNish]

It has so many scalpers/people buying up lots of real estate, there's clearly way too few mediums/larges (SE really should have made Shirogane have double or triple the larges/mediums, same with Ishgard).

I think we will see a resale soon. Unfortunately, adding wards will end up the same. Unless only the subdivisions will be slightly expanded to an additional 2-4, but I'm not sure if this is feasible, because the "macaroni code" and lack of resources.

Imagine if when a new MSQ comes out, only the first thousand players per server got to experience it. Imagine if when a new Ult/Ex/Savage came out, after 100 clears the raids were shut down and from then on nobody else was allowed to attempt it unless they'd cleared it already. Imagine if only players who queued for pvp on day one of ARR ever got to pvp for the entire remainder of the game unless one of those players stopped playing, at which point a spot would open up. It'd be utter BS, and we know it'd be utter BS, and it'd kill the interest of almost all players into those specific activities entirely- yet for some reason that's fine for housing?

Some games have special achievements for clearing super difficult content in the first 10-14 days, like in SWTOR. Players receive unique items and titles. But there is an instance-based housing. Unfortunately, at the moment, housing in FF XIV is not designed for such a number of players and rather belongs to luxury/vanity items.

[Sosotino]

I've had a wild night of this. My friends (all of us on Mateus) and I have been preparing for literal months, sending gil to each other, running maps to save up, picking the ideal wards to try and get our cottages next to each other. Up to and including putting the better part of an all nighter together, because the patch went live any time from 3am to 6am depending on what timezone we were in.

We had to restart the launcher twice (once to patch, the next time to actually get the play button green) but were in character select within a minute of the patch going live. And then in a queue for just over fifteen minutes. By the time we got in, the only plots left were on cooldown timers because someone had gone around buying them up to relocate elsewhere.

We were aiming for the Goblet, and for a subdivision. The most unpopular choice in the most unpopular housing district.

We did everything we could but there was no winning, and the people bragging about snapping up their 4th house in the novice network because they use alts with FCs as a loophole for the one-personal-house-per-account rule was just insult to injury.

Maybe someday they'll instance wards by FC. Let people buy up plots around their FC house and allow anyone to visit but only those members to purchase. It would be a way to make lived in neighbourhoods you could travel and interact with without all this mess and misery.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Logged in as soon as the servers went up. 1250 queue on Cactuar. By the time I got in, the new wards were completely filled. Only looks like a handful of smalls opened up in the older wards, so at least it wasn't entirely relocations.