Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

[Jojoya]

You know that is not true, a housing golden age would only happen if SE made the choice to either enforce their desired design or expanded the options of apartments with or something.

If sarcasm sorry.

Enforcing their desired design wouldn't lead to a housing Golden Age. It's not realistic because of server hardware demands and what's currently a still growing player base. The Golden Age would only happen if the population of players dropped well below the number of available plots.

They would need to switch to a fully instanced system for a Golden Age to happen. Other MMORPGs using instanced housing are having no problems meeting player demand to the point that they allow individual characters (not just accounts) to own multiple housing properties.

I still don't understand SE's stubbornness on this issue. Wards add no value to housing because they're empty the majority of the time. The bulk of the game happens outside the wards so there's little reason for players to be in the wards outside of RP events. Those can take place in a good instanced housing system just as easily, and be advertised just as easily in PF as the current RP venues are.

[Awha]

Enforcing their desired design wouldn't lead to a housing Golden Age. It's not realistic because of server hardware demands and what's currently a still growing player base. The Golden Age would only happen if the population of players dropped well below the number of available plots.

They would need to switch to a fully instanced system for a Golden Age to happen. Other MMORPGs using instanced housing are having no problems meeting player demand to the point that they allow individual characters (not just accounts) to own multiple housing properties.

I still don't understand SE's stubbornness on this issue. Wards add no value to housing because they're empty the majority of the time. The bulk of the game happens outside the wards so there's little reason for players to be in the wards outside of RP events. Those can take place in a good instanced housing system just as easily, and be advertised just as easily in PF as the current RP venues are.

Actually enforcing their design would indeed lead to a housing golden age within the context of FFXIV. At that point people will know exactly where they stand with SE's vision, cause as you mentioned the other suggestions are not possible so a golden age would have to exist under the limitations placed on FFXIV thus the comment if they just enforced their design choices then at that point their would be no more ambiguity about their intent or what they want from housing.

Think that transparency would alleviate much of the housing drama. As mentioned I was talking about a golden age within ffxiv working within their limits.

Thus why I mentioned expanding apartments because that was an idea they mentioned they were working on but that probably is also outside the scope.

[Almagnus1]

I still don't understand SE's stubbornness on this issue. Wards add no value to housing because they're empty the majority of the time. The bulk of the game happens outside the wards so there's little reason for players to be in the wards outside of RP events. Those can take place in a good instanced housing system just as easily, and be advertised just as easily in PF as the current RP venues are.

I think it has a lot to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect

[lolzyking]

I think it has a lot to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect

which when you consider with japanese values, sunk cost fallacy likely has an easier time taking root, and with much stronger roots.