Fix Housing Megathread

[Divinemights]

That's a fancy way of saying "I disagree with you"
If that's true, why have I pointed out several things that LotRO has done better than FFXIV in housing?

SE's oversight was that they didn't really take into consideration that people would have alts (which has much less need now that New Game+ is a thing) and they built the entire personal housing around the limited subscription. SE made several mistakes and I have been advocating for changes to the housing system like having all alts on a server get ports to all personal houses on the same server owned by that service account and also housing storage that will allow someone to transfer items between chars on the server. These are two things that LoTRO has had for player housing since it launched many years ago, and it's two things that are long overdue in FFXIV for housing.

While I will be (occasionally) hyperbolic, I have been consistently advocating for positive change to the system.



When Yoshi-P indicates that there are RMT issues within housing (largely because of the housing market that existed before it), and they still exist to this day... that idea was not short sighted. SE saw it as an easy way to stop the housing flipping which it does exceedingly well. If you're someone that got burned by it then (quite honestly) you deserved it.

Typical hyperbolic response that you often seem from twitter community. It is either you are fried or you are foe, laughable at best.

Your amazing hatred is petty and you don't even know what you are saying any more. Let's say you own a 3,000 2 floor house that you worked hard and obtained through legal mean. All of sudden one zealot comes with pitch and folk demands to torn down your house because he need it to build an apartment to house more people. Just how ridiculous your idea sound.

It is the principle I am defending. You have no right to stripped someone's property just because supply can't meet demand. Get your fact straight.

LOTR mmo? Are you refering that piece of garbage with crappy graphic, crappy game play, crappy music, crappy character models and crappy story that not many even know about it? Of course its housing system is fine because its playerbase is ridiculous small and it is not even eligible to scale with FF14. Do they even have a blizzcon or FF14 fanfest that people even cares about?

[Almagnus1]

LOTR mmo? Are you refering that piece of garbage with crappy graphic, crappy game play, crappy music, crappy character models and crappy story that not many even know about it? Of course its housing system is fine because its playerbase is ridiculous small and it is not even eligible to scale with FF14. Do they even have a blizzcon or FF14 fanfest that people even cares about?

Yes, I played a lot of that MMO, but that was like over a decade ago, so different time, different place. That said there are two things from that MMO that really belong in FFXIV:

• All characters on a server got a port to the personal house, and it was shared between them equally
• There was housing storage (and the ability to mail things between characters) so moving items around was easy

And while I would love to see this, due to the technical differences between the two games and how far advanced the FFXIV housing system is compared to the LotRO one, I doubt we'll see the ward scaling like what LotRO had, as it would spawn in additional neighborhoods if it detected that (for example) there needed to be more hobbit or human neighborhoods while the dwarven and elven ones stayed as is. I don't see how FFXIV can do that technically speaking, but it would definitely help alleviate some of the issues relating to FFXIV housing.