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

[Semirhage]

The question is, how would that have helped with the bum rush on the new wards? The terrible, stupid way the entire housing system works encourages getting any plot at all on lock because it allows you to bypass this ridiculous timer system. Instead of adding a relocation timer, remove the vacate timer. Having a random length, invisible timer on freshly relinquished properties only encourages a circlejerk of current homeowners bogarting the system through no real fault of their own, because they get to skip past the barrier to entry by merit of already owning a house. Just...remove the timer entirely. Then nobody can force timers on new wards, because there isn't one.

I'm all for not adding extra hoops for people to jump through to block botting. The problem with the housing system is the entirely artificial restriction on supply, not the desire to move to another house.

[JamieRose]

SE don't care about you, or us.
Of the fact their product is rigged or bad. What they care about is your money.

So lets all unsubscribe for 1 month, and let them feel it in the wallet. Money talk loder then forums.

Unsurprisingly they put this month's bill through right before the servers went up. >_>

[SindolY3K]

Is to make it an optional service. We pay an extra $3 for 7 extra characters, we pay $2 for a retainer, $5 for a premium companion app, all most likely to help offset the cost of the data it entails on the backend. The only way to fix housing is to charge people to cover the hardware cost. To own a house, you need pay for its infrastructure, its that simple. Sure it sucks, and it punishes people who already own a house, but the truth is Square is offering a feature it can't afford to support. Switch housing over to a pay feature, reimburse people the full value of the house, not what they paid for it after devaluation, if they would lose it if they dont change over to the service in xx days and return all their housing items, even ones normally not returned when a house is demolished. Make the service giftable so FC members can help FC leaders who can't afford it, and switch wards over to a system that dynamically adds new wards as demand requires and remove housing demolitioj now that players are footing the bill. Its pointless to offer "casual content" like housing in a game when theres more people who don't get to experience than there are who do.

[SuperSxyNerd]

They have already said housing will be on seperate servers soon, so hard no.

[KalinOrthos]

Please do not EA housing.

[JamieRose]

Is to make it an optional service. We pay an extra $3 for 7 extra characters, we pay $2 for a retainer, $5 for a premium companion app, all most likely to help offset the cost of the data it entails on the backend. The only way to fix housing is to charge people to cover the hardware cost. To own a house, you need pay for its infrastructure, its that simple. Sure it sucks, and it punishes people who already own a house, but the truth is Square is offering a feature it can't afford to support. Switch housing over to a pay feature, reimburse people the full value of the house, not what they paid for it after devaluation, if they would lose it if they dont change over to the service in xx days and return all their housing items, even ones normally not returned when a house is demolished. Make the service giftable so FC members can help FC leaders who can't afford it, and switch wards over to a system that dynamically adds new wards as demand requires and remove housing demolitioj now that players are footing the bill. Its pointless to offer "casual content" like housing in a game when theres more people who don't get to experience than there are who do.

I pay too much for this game as it is.

[NorthernLadMSP]

They should have not allowed people to relocate, plain and simple - at least for the first week.

[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.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

A game doesn't require you to stay up for shit. You're just crazy.

If you want a house it does, I get this piece of content means nothing to you, but is there nothing in the game you care about? And if there is, why play it at all?

If you're a raider, how would you feel if after the first 100 groups clear each raid that raid is forever locked off to any other players, and the only time a spot for raiding a raid is opened is if one of those 100 groups hasn't cleared it in 45 days. It sounds extremely stupid doesn't it? Because it is.

And if you were a raider vying to be in that top 100 and it was important to you to do raid content, I imagine you'd go to far, far greater lengths than staying up til 3am, and I also think you'd be just as pissed if the only reason you weren't in the top 100 was because you weren't even out of queue before the race was over.

[LaylaTsarra]

They should have not allowed people to relocate, plain and simple - at least for the first week.

There is nothing wrong with relocation but the timers the first day shouldn't apply.