Fix Housing Megathread

[Arielen]

cause the rest of you who tell them they're bad ideas haven't contributed a single thing in fifteen pages besides "lol add more servers" - like that's hasn't been suggested and equally lambasted because we all know it just isn't feasible.

No, really, we do need more actual servers and datacenters. The game has been getting progressively bigger for several years now and the American and EU servers are already double the load of the JP servers. If they can spare an oceania DC, surely they can find a way to sort out more EU and American servers.

[Almagnus1]

Silent auction or people with care for others (not enough of them in an MMO) will not make a dent in the housing problem. Only fix is a revamp to all instanced. All this mega-threading with long, drawn out "Eureka's" are fine and dandy if you are bored, I suggest just short replies containing "Instanced housing" might do you one better.

Auction idea may actually help with one of the problems facing housing: We do not have enough gil sinks, so deleting vast sums of gil from the game (by getting people at gil cap to dump it on absurd housing bid wars) may help with that.

[Almagnus1]

No, really, we do need more actual servers and datacenters. The game has been getting progressively bigger for several years now and the American and EU servers are already double the load of the JP servers. If they can spare an oceania DC, surely they can find a way to sort out more EU and American servers.

I imagine a large part of that is that SE is expanding slowly, and I do not fault them for exercising extreme caution when it comes to datacenters. On the bright side, when the Oceanic DC comes into existence, it may help open up housing on the other datacenters with the transfers.

[Arielen]

I imagine a large part of that is that SE is expanding slowly, and I do not fault them for exercising extreme caution when it comes to datacenters. On the bright side, when the Oceanic DC comes into existence, it may help open up housing on the other datacenters with the transfers.

Unfortunately most of that housing will be on JP, where they still have some servers that have smalls with 0 timers lol

[Almagnus1]

Unfortunately most of that housing will be on JP, where they still have some servers that have smalls with 0 timers lol

You think this issue is not going to be seriously addressed until it's a problem in JP?

[Arielen]

You think this issue is not going to be seriously addressed until it's a problem in JP?

I think it's already a substantial issue in JP; Japanese players do complain about housing availability (and also about prices, generating money on JP is difficult). I don't think it's a matter of only valuing JP voices so much as they think their marketing in EU and NA is lacking and they aren't predicting a boom in playerbase even with all evidence contrary.

The reason I say 'most of that housing will be on JP' is because a huge part of the Oceania community is based on the JP servers due to ping issues. The English speaking community in JP promotes Tonberry as their hub.

[ItMe]

I think it's already a substantial issue in JP; Japanese players do complain about housing availability (and also about prices, generating money on JP is difficult). I don't think it's a matter of only valuing JP voices so much as they think their marketing in EU and NA is lacking and they aren't predicting a boom in playerbase even with all evidence contrary.

The reason I say 'most of that housing will be on JP' is because a huge part of the Oceania community is based on the JP servers due to ping issues. The English speaking community in JP promotes Tonberry as their hub.

The largest JP server (Tonberry) is has about as many players as NA's smallest server (Sargstanas).
NA has far fiercer housing problems than JP, so I really don't see why most of the housing would go to the place it is least needed.

[Seleni]

The largest JP server (Tonberry) is has about as many players as NA's smallest server (Sargstanas).
NA has far fiercer housing problems than JP, so I really don't see why most of the housing would go to the place it is least needed.

If you read up a few posts, the original response was made in reference to the house plots that would get opened up as Australian players move to Oceania data center. (Hence “that” housing). If the majority of the Australian players are currently playing on Japanese servers, then indeed the plots that will become open due to transfers would be on the Japanese servers.

[ItMe]

If you read up a few posts, the original response was made in reference to the house plots that would get opened up as Australian players move to Oceania data center. (Hence “that” housing). If the majority of the Australian players are currently playing on Japanese servers, then indeed the plots that will become open due to transfers would be on the Japanese servers.

Oh my I somehow missed that.
Thanks for the catch and the context. My bad.

[Arielen]

If you read up a few posts, the original response was made in reference to the house plots that would get opened up as Australian players move to Oceania data center. (Hence “that” housing). If the majority of the Australian players are currently playing on Japanese servers, then indeed the plots that will become open due to transfers would be on the Japanese servers.

^ This person is correct.