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

[MsMisato]

Not defending SE, but the housing website specifically stated new wards are free for all for the first purchase, afterwards and in any other wards, homes that are relocated from, relinquished, and demolished and what not will be placed on a timer.

[Semirhage]

If they did that then the ward 22, 23 or 24 plots would not have timers on them

That's exactly what I did. I saw someone at my preferred location when I warped in, grabbed the small next door, then saw a better spot still open, ran there, and relocated to it. Wasn't aware/didn't cross my mind that it would trigger the relocation timer on the first plot I grabbed.

[KalinOrthos]

Not defending SE, but the housing website specifically stated new wards are free for all for the first purchase, afterwards and in any other wards, homes that are relocated from, relinquished, and demolished and what not will be placed on a timer.

This isn't what happened. There are timers on plots in the new wards, because people bought the plots, then abandoned or "relocated" from that new plot, putting a timer on it.

[Seddrinth]

See, if they're worried about server load it should be one house per account. Period. Everyone gets a house that way instead of wards owned by one or two people on alts

Well, you can't own more than 1 house on a server per account. My alts are located on different worlds that's why they are able to buy houses. The wards where 1 or 2 ppl own the entire things are cases where they were grandfathered.

[BehindTheFlowers]

I have given up on housing. The game is good, but its not that good. And this is not worth it.
I suggest we all unsubscribe our accounts for 1 month. So instead of words. Which is not working on them, they will feel it in the wallet instead.

Money talk louder then unhappy customers. So lets vote with our money and unsbuscribe for 1 month.

[Seddrinth]

I did this. I didn't troll but wanted to grab one first and then I found another lot.

[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.

[Seddrinth]

GG.... People purchased the plots... and Immediately relocated... RNG timer time....

I did this. I wanted to grab a plot asap and then I found a different plot that I liked better.

[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.