Petition to balance housing system and against black market

[Pierllos]

Dear players of Eorzea,

Despite of lack of answers from Square Enix about the housing issue, here you can find my petition to balance the housing system against black market : http://chng.it/8v4ph6SD6x
In my server (Spriggan), there are a lot of tags who maintains emty houses for personnal projects and for sell to players.

You can fin the explanation and the method used to do that. It is an example in Spriggan but this server discord found recently aims all servers (EU, NA or JP) and will not help old or new players to have a house.

We try to have an answer from Square Enix about that. Please help players with a vote
In a frinedly manner.
See you soon in Eorzea

[DragonFlyy]

A petition is not a legal binding contract, and SE won't answer. The reason they won't answer is because it's uncontrollable, unless they make it so the house is removed when leadership of an FC is passed and that would not be a good thing at all. So basically, it's not possible to police people selling houses through FC leadership and it won't be changed because it would cause too much of a problem transferring legit FC leadership.

[Lunalepsy]

Dear players of Eorzea,

Despite of lack of answers from Square Enix about the housing issue, here you can find my petition to balance the housing system against black market : http://chng.it/8v4ph6SD6x
In my server (Spriggan), there are a lot of tags who maintains emty houses for personnal projects and for sell to players.

You can fin the explanation and the method used to do that. It is an example in Spriggan but this server discord found recently aims all servers (EU, NA or JP) and will not help old or new players to have a house.

We try to have an answer from Square Enix about that. Please help players with a vote
In a frinedly manner.
See you soon in Eorzea

Good luck trying to push that narrative.

[Trobon]

Anyone who buys a house off the “black market,” as you are calling it, must have already owned a house to begin with in order to relocate and skip the placard wait time. So when this happens a house opens up either way (the one being relocated from) and anyone has a chance to get it.

[Arillyn]

Anyone who buys a house off the “black market,” as you are calling it, must have already owned a house to begin with in order to relocate and skip the placard wait time. So when this happens a house opens up either way (the one being relocated from) and anyone has a chance to get it.

This is not always true. You can purchase a FC that owns a house. They then relinquish that FC to you and voila - you now have an FC with a house. This is how some people have almost an entire ward of houses that are FCs. There is a player that is notorious for doing this with alts (I can't for the life of me remember what server they play on, but I know it's on one of the NA data centers.)

[Trobon]

This is not always true. You can purchase a FC that owns a house. They then relinquish that FC to you and voila - you now have an FC with a house. This is how some people have almost an entire ward of houses that are FCs. There is a player that is notorious for doing this with alts (I can't for the life of me remember what server they play on, but I know it's on one of the NA data centers.)

Okay, that’s fair. I hadn’t considered that avenue.

[Pierllos]

This is not always true. You can purchase a FC that owns a house. They then relinquish that FC to you and voila - you now have an FC with a house. This is how some people have almost an entire ward of houses that are FCs. There is a player that is notorious for doing this with alts (I can't for the life of me remember what server they play on, but I know it's on one of the NA data centers.)

Yes this method is applicated in FFXIV Housing Market, one of whose moderators occupies the entire sector 20 of The Goblet and begins to obtain sector 18 on Spriggan : https://discord.gg/eqdApTJ
In Spriggan, there are a lot of tags : Lucis, Norf, Tob, uwu

They joke me since i report that but i dont care if they laugh about me xD

[Arillyn]

Okay, that’s fair. I hadn’t considered that avenue.

Yes it's in place in case an FC leader quits the game, the house won't be lost and the next person in line inherits the FC & the house. It just gets misused as people are wont to do things like that unfortunately.

[remiff]

it is above all up to square enix to plug some of the breaches in their housing system,
it is true that with such a system which does not respond to supply and demand it is unacceptable to see players possessing 12-13 houses, or an entire area,
all this to farm gils with the workshop, is kind of a fraud.

they could already change the conditions for obtaining a fc house, because seeing a character level 1 be a member of fc , and having the workshop is a little too easy
it clearly has a way of imposing a minimum level, a certain advance in the msq for buy a house plot .

[KayRadley]

1. Online petitions don't do jack.

2. You do know we have a Housing forum, yes?