Housing Suggestion

[CnC]

I don't know where else to post this.

If SE were to create more subdivisions in the housing area to substantially increase the number of houses it would serve four main purposes.

1. Satisfy the number of players wanting to buy a house.
2. Ensures the vast majority of FCs get a house. This is an issue for those that want to change the color of the chocobo, training the chocobo, or when trying to grow things (minions to name one).
3. Credit Dump - albeit a weak one that can be overcome easily.
4. Won't penalize people for having school, work, family, business, a life outside of those areas, or needing to eat, drink, sleep, use the water closet.

After some deliberation, how it would work, overall but not all encompassing, is when all the housing areas main and subdivisions reach 90% capacity a new subdivision in then created. Then a third subdivision is created when all the housing areas, subdivision one, and subdivision two are 90% full another is created.

They can ensure the plots do not devalue and/or increased the price by 125-200%.

[Aarchie]

I believe they don't have space as it is now for it. They are already saving data space for Ishgard Housing.
The servers are super congested, so I don't see anything like this happening before the server upgrade they are planning x.x

[Seraphor]

Are they going to magically spawn new severs whenever a ward fills up to 90% too?

[Juun]

OMG yes please, Ive spend more time I dare to admit just for it to be stolen by one of the other 20 people standing around the placard. Or someone relocating it. Its a terrible system as of now.

[kaynide]

It boils down to money cost, and monthly maintenance cost for no gain in profit.

If you want more housing, the best/biggest way to actively go about it is by constant requesting and also Mogstation purchases.

YoshiP has gone on record (sorry I forget where) saying one of the last times they expanded housing wards was directly paid by Mogstation purchases.

[Andy_T93]

Im sorry but really. Thats your suggestion, build more houses, It's not exactly groundbreaking. If there was sufficient server space they would have 6 million houses and everyone could have a house no issue.

The issue is that there isn't server space. Hell they are having to get rid of belts just so we can store more rings

[Ranaku]

This exclusivity as far as i know is a common thing in asian mmos and thus i can understand their design choices when it comes to housing. It's about showing off that you have something, thus also no "instanced" housing but wards where other players can see your plot and house and can also visit it.

So yeah i am totally fine with the housing situation, it's work and when you got it you can show off and enjoy it. Same as raiding. Same as other competetive content. The only reason we hear so much negative stuff from the community about it is cause most of these players are casual and want all the stuff without any work.

So yeah, if you want something then just suffer for it. If you want the feast gear, suffer through pvp. If you want the ultimate titel and weapons, suffer through all the practice it takes. And if you want a house, stand in front of it and click for hours until you get it. Just takes time like the rest, if you don't like that you don't deserve it in my opinion.

[kaynide]

This exclusivity as far as i know is a common thing in asian mmos and thus i can understand their design choices when it comes to housing. It's about showing off that you have something, thus also no "instanced" housing but wards where other players can see your plot and house and can also visit it.

The problem is more about the company waffling and giving into pressure from players.

Originally, housing was meant to be for FCs only; no personal housing options. Also it was meant to be very very expensive with some distant future plan for individual housing. We are talking a large house was as much/over as 600 million gil in some cases. It was never meant to have as much demand as it does today.

The player base asked for it to be lower and for it to be more open to all players and ultimately that’s the decision the devs took. So, basically we can only blame ourselves for how it is, and can only ask for tweaks to move towards a direction that would satisfy as many as possible.

[Wolwosh]

Honestly it seems like lots of people want a house, but then they get one and don't do anything with it for months.
I have several of those on my ward.
Not everyone needs a house, especially sprouts.

[Illmaeran]

I'd gladly pay 10-15/15-20/20-25 USD to permanently purchase a plot that I'll never lose even if I take an extended break.