Fix Housing Megathread

[Seleni]

I wouldn’t want to ask friends to do what myself find tedious.
It’s better to let crops rot if it comes down to it.

[Sotaris]

If you were growing Thav onions I don't think you'd say that but each their own.

[Caitsithhh]

Where in the game's advertising is it described as a luxury item? Please provide a link for it.

On a side note, Mr. Happy just did an email interview with YoshiP. One of his questions was related to housing, specifically as to whether the apartment updates briefly mentioned in the past as design considerations were still in the works. YoshiP's response was they decided they would rather use their resources to provide more houses for players than to redesign the apartment system.

I know some players are attached to the idea that houses are supposed to be some sort of exclusive player club but SE's responses since the decision was made to open houses to individuals and not just FCs have not supported that. The current situation is mostly because the size of the player base, and thus demand for houses, exploded in a way SE never anticipated. Their nice little niche MMORPG gained a more mainstream popularity that they had quietly hoped for but never actually expected to get.

Luxury in price on release, luxury because of scarcity, luxury because it was never instanced and the list goes on. What about 50 mil doesn’t scream luxury to you?!?!

[Caitsithhh]

And yea firmament is coming with housing so you more luxury. The only thing not luxury that’s potentially coming is not islands that are instanced

[Seleni]

Point being that some of the benefits that the house-hunters cited, for wanting a house over apartment, could end up being not as what they imagined. (Myself included to some extent)

Gardening probably is easier and make more sense for a good-sized active FC. Neighborhoods are more likely to thrive if it contains a lot of active FCs due to simply higher number of people going in and out.

As a system designed for FCs, it all makes sense. But for individual house owners, once the excitement and the freshness wear off, what used to be super-important suddenly don’t seem so desirable anymore. That’s probably why gardening patches aren’t that common. (That or people hide it behind trees/partitions because what’s being planted doesn’t go with the rest of the yard, and, that scarecrow….)

But until you actually experienced it, you don’t know if it will turn out to be a dud for you. And once you’d spend the time and all that effort (and the click-placard savage), it’d feel like a waste to let it go, even if you don’t care about the millions of gils you’d spent. Not to mention all of the furnitures and time you’d spent putting all that in place. If you let go of the house then you’d need to find some place to store all that as some might have costed too much or are event items.

Ideally I’d like SE to create instance house that include house exterior and yard. (e.g. floating islands so they don’t have to worry about showing neighbors.)

But if they are citing “memory” issue for not implementing different sizes for apartments, a desirable instance housing system, that can be expected to be used by more players than the current apartment dwellers, is probably not likely. (Imagine having to wait in a queue to enter your instanced house because too many players are in theirs)

And any instance housing without exterior would probably get the same reception as current apartments.

I’d think one thing that might be possible for them to improve apartments might be to allow sharing. Even if not for friends, at least for the eternal bond partners. But who knows. Maybe that’s actually harder to do than increasing size of the apartments.

[Sotaris]

Don't insult my capital, thanks D:

[Almagnus1]

Don't insult my capital, thanks D:

Too late? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Edit:
Besides, being of Norwegian descent, I'll tease the Swedes as often as I can =P

[Sotaris]

Too late? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Edit:
Besides, being of Norwegian descent, I'll tease the Swedes as often as I can =P

yeah well... you guys talk weird!

[Almagnus1]

yeah well... you guys talk weird!

Well yeah... when your native language is English, you're not going to speak Bokmal correctly =P

I mean, the closest thing to a Swede I've regularly seen is https://youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE

[Arielen]

MMORPG: With Ishgardian housing coming as well as the Island Sanctuary, players are wondering — what will the overlap be, if any, between Housing/Estate activities and Island Sanctuary ones?

Yoshida: I won’t say there is no overlap in the gameplay, but they are fundamentally two separate pieces of content. If anything, we plan to incorporate many things that you can’t do within the housing/estate system into the Island Sanctuary. We’ll have more details down the road, so please stay tuned for further updates on this.

from: https://www.mmorpg.com/interviews/in...-14-2000121913