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

[Vickii]

Oh wow. FC's are players too and most use the facilities for more than just decorating. They have as much right to housing as anyone and more so than those that gets a house and doesn't bother to put a stick of furniture in it.

Most FC owners have their own house too.
Most FC owners limit what other players can do in terms of decorating, gardening etc.

The clue is in the name, player housing, not FC housing.

[KadaRemnant]

You do know we have a Housing forum, right?

You also know we have apartments, right?

You do know how very small and limited apartments are, right?

[Mhaeric]

Most FC owners have their own house too.
Most FC owners limit what other players can do in terms of decorating, gardening etc.

The clue is in the name, player housing, not FC housing.

The community calls it player housing. SquareEnix just uses the term "housing" in all their official communications, so your ridiculous semantics argument is baseless.

As for your idea that FCs should just be chat rooms, that is not the standard in modern MMOs. Guilds, or each game's equivalent, have some form of guild hall which serves as a gathering space that offers services to guild members. It just so happens that in FFXIV they have chosen to have this tie into the same pool of ownable spaces that individual players have. You would get a much better reception if you were to suggest a way that FCs could have access to a guild hall that is separate from individually owned housing rather than just saying that they shouldn't have any space at all. That just makes you sound petulant at best.

[SieyaM]

Most FC owners have their own house too.
Most FC owners limit what other players can do in terms of decorating, gardening etc.

The clue is in the name, player housing, not FC housing.

In this situation FC housing allows a lot of players access to housing amenities that are unable to get a plot. There are FC rooms which are available to all members, and I dont know about other FCs but mine uses the garden to grow things for its members and allows everyone to stable their chocobo there and someone tends to the stable. This is as well as having vendors and gear repair in the house. I really dont think there are so many shell FCs that it would equate or even cause a surplus of plots with how many players using their FC's house for these things.

[Qeepel]

Hello everyone and thank you for sharing your feedback!

We went ahead and merged some of the topics regarding this matter to this thread and ask that you please continue posting your feedback here. Thank you again for your comments and for your cooperation!

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[Divinemights]

Didn’t Yoship said they are planning to relocate all housing wards into dedicate severs so they can further expand the wards?
The plan is interrupted by the Covid 19 and 5.35 is merely a band aid until epidemic is over
Have some patience?

[MsQi]

Relocating is a huge part of the problem. They opened these for new players, not so you could move house.

Yeah, relocating should have been "turned off" or the timer should have been turned off, temporarily.

[saxman09]

Put instanced housing, like an actual physical house plot in an instanced location where owners can edit the way thier house looks and place decorations etc. and invite friends or FC members. This will literally fix all current problems and cut future server bloat exponentially. If you can do it with apartments you can do it with houses.

[Katie_Kitty]

Yeah, relocating should have been "turned off" or the timer should have been turned off, temporarily.

Gonna disagree majorly with this. Square never ever said these wards were exclusively for houseless people nor should they be.

[Katie_Kitty]

People like having ward communities. I know I do. I don't wanna see them go away.