Ishgard Residential District Confirmed

[Vahlnir]

See you guys in about a year when Ishgard housing has gone live and we get a dozen different sour grapes threads about it and how the housing problem still isn't fixed?

Ishgard was their chance to fix the core problem of housing. Seems like they are content with how things are. Hopefully their definition of increased supply actually puts a sizeable dent in the demand.

[Edax]

Any screenshot of the farming island?

All we get is concept art.

[Hycinthus]

Ishgard is my favorite theme and location, because I like cold-weather and gothic look. Hope we can get some plots.

[AncientWillow]

See you guys in about a year when Ishgard housing has gone live and we get a dozen different sour grapes threads about it and how the housing problem still isn't fixed?

I mean they would have a point still, this was a chance to honestly open up a housing zone outside plot buying and go instant, with a proplem they aren't fixing and honestly can't lol

[Hausti]

This was theire chance to fix problems regarding the housing situation.
But they choose to ignore it. AGAIN.
Housing will stay the same...

[Gameovers]

The Island should be instance housing. If you can't have a house there then they have failed.

[Jojoya]

I'm pretty disappointed with the Ishgard housing announcement. They've known since at least 4.1 that the ward system isn't serving the player base sufficiently and yet they're still being stubborn about sticking with it.

Koji's translation of YoshiP's comments about Ishgard housing during the showcase (short of some "and"s and "so"s and a few other stray words not adding information):

"Crafters all over the world have poured their hearts into the rebuilding of the Firmament and Ishgard Restoration.

And inspired by that work, the city wants to present a new housing area to those that have worked hard to rebuild the Firmament.

Just like we have since 4.0, at the release of 6.0 we will be opening the area for players to go in and look at.

At the launch of 6.0, players can go to the residential area and look around and see what might be a good place to get a plot of land. But the actual purchase of that won't be available until 6.1 because there's a lot of stuff to do in 6.0 before having to worry about getting a plot of land.

Currently the plan is to have the exact same number of wards as all of the other housing residential districts in Eorzea as well as having apartments as well.

Because we understand this is very important for players and a lot of feedback has been given about this, we are continuing our efforts to make sure that there will be enough plots available.

Whether or not it will be exactly like the Firmament that you are currently rebuilding now, that's left to be said but it will give you a very good idea of what that residential area will look like."

I doubt the new housing is intended only for those who participated in the Restoration as that seems to imply.

It's disappointing that we're going to have to wait about another year before we get a substantial increase to the house plots on every world when the need for them is 2 years ago when the player population exploded.

Hopefully the statement about the number of wards being the same as other housing districts doesn't mean that the total number of wards in each district won't be increasing. Only adding 1440 more plots is not going to be enough considering how fast everything has disappeared in the last 2 expansions plus after the demo time resumed.

I'm having difficulty seeing this as a sincere effort to meet the demand for houses when ward additions have failed to address long term need every time. 720 houses added in 5.35? Gone the same day on most worlds. Several hundred houses per world available on January 22nd after demolition resumed? Again almost all gone same day.

This is not going to work.

It's also very disappointing they are ignoring apartment size options and addition of alts as tenants even though they had brought up both subjects a few months after the 4.2 ward addition three years ago. Apartment size options would decrease some of the demand for house plots since the primary complaint against the apartment system is the small size. If our alts are denied a chance to purchase houses because we already own a house on the same world, then our alts need to be made tenants of those houses we own.

it's just sad that where SE does so many other things well, they continue to leave the housing system a mess.

[wereotter]

Ishgard was their chance to fix the core problem of housing. Seems like they are content with how things are. Hopefully their definition of increased supply actually puts a sizeable dent in the demand.

It's potentially a problem they have issues fixing or think we're just whining about it in the west... but based off census data I've seen, the lowest population server in NA has more players than the highest in JP. This implies that while in JP the number of houses available on those servers is more in line with the number of players, while on ours, we have far more players than houses.

Also on a selfish note, I do hope they repeat the trend of opening it to moving and FCs first... mostly so I can move from Kugane to Ishgard.

[Reinha]

Very excited! I've been waiting for this since Heavensward.

My server had plots available for several weeks after the last addition so an entire housing area is plenty enough. Even after the auto demolish frenzy there were plots in Goblet with no one camping them.

I hope everyone including fcs, private owners and currently homeless players can all have equal access to Ishgard housing. The fastest should win their desired plot.

[Ryaz]

I'll be staying in Mist because I hate the snow (I see way too much of it where I love every winter as it is). But even though I pretty damn sure it was coming, it's nice to have confirmation for those who wanted it. Plus, it means more housing in general for the populations that's had problems getting them.