Housing crisis

[Moonlite]

I'll be honest ffxiv has the worst housing possible. Even dcuo has it better, I can't think of one worse than ffxivs.

Its not that what they did is "bad", its just the system is made to screw people over be it luck etc. That they throw out just for idk how many percent but its lower than 69% of players on each world.

They need to pick a month and only work on housing plots/zones if they are going to keep up with a system that screws over the majority of players wanting in on that content.

The sad thing is they seem to put more work into pvp which most people seem to not care about one way or another. Than housing that has massive amount people caring about it.

I think housing has got way more work then PvP. They are always adding stuff to housing all the time, they will have literally done nothing in PvP for over two years. The only things more abandon then PvP are Grand Companies and squadrons(they couldn't add more missions and rewards at least). Also sucks they have intentionally sat on Ishgard housing for almost a year as well. They should be required to add new housing wards every patch till they can say everyone who earned/wants one has got one.

[FusiaRain]

I think housing has got way more work then PvP. They are always adding stuff to housing all the time, they will have literally done nothing in PvP for over two years. The only things more abandon then PvP are Grand Companies and squadrons(they couldn't add more missions and rewards at least). Also sucks they have intentionally sat on Ishgard housing for almost a year as well. They should be required to add new housing wards every patch till they can say everyone who earned/wants one has got one.

New items added on isnt really more work thats basically the same as a new armor piece, pvp has many zones, many different victorys etc plus the gear id say it has gotton more.

A new system is a slight amount but I would hardly call that "work" A new item here and there is a bit meha to call it putting work into it.

[Darthgummibear]

I do agree with you, ESO did housing right. Trophy's from clearing dungeons and raids. I displayed them all. I had 18 houses. That was my end game. FFXIV could learn a thing or two from that housing system.

I really should post a couple screenshots of those homes. It's the one thing I miss from that game.

[Skivvy]

Someone call 911, Jojoya's overdosing on their own koolaid once more.

How so exactly? Which part do you disagree with?

[Kes13a]

beginning to think the troll had a good fishing trip...

[Lunalepsy]

HUD needs to intervene!

[kaynide]

As an owner of 3 houses currently, all I can say is system is working as intended.

While the shortage is the fault of the devs for bowing to pressure from the player base (massive price reduction and allowing private ownership) , it is by no means impossible to get a house.

Moreover, with EW’s lotto system and additional entire housing district it will only become even easier to attempt to get a house.

[FusiaRain]

As an owner of 3 houses currently, all I can say is system is working as intended.

While the shortage is the fault of the devs for bowing to pressure from the player base (massive price reduction and allowing private ownership) , it is by no means impossible to get a house.

Moreover, with EW’s lotto system and additional entire housing district it will only become even easier to attempt to get a house.

If one person can get 3 houses with such limited space compared to amount of people on the server is intended.

That is horrible design either that are really stupid development planning.


Regardless their intention doesnt mean a thing when it obviously has kassive proplems they should use their brains and drop that intention for one that works

[kaynide]

If one person can get 3 houses with such limited space compared to amount of people on the server is intended.

That is horrible design either that are really stupid development planning.


Regardless their intention doesnt mean a thing when it obviously has kassive proplems they should use their brains and drop that intention for one that works

The situation as it exists is a textbook example of "Be careful what you wish for".

Originally a Large Plot on Tonberry (where I am) went for between 100,000,000-125,000,000 gil. On Balmug it would go for as much as 312,500,000 gil.
Players complained it was too expensive, so it became very cheap (and easier to buy).
Then players wanted personal housing, so you got a double whammy of more demand and incredibly cheap prices.

The devs did what the players wanted, which they shouldn't have. But they did, and these are the consequences.

We can debate whether they earned it fair and square but you're not wrong, it is selfish to expect someone to give up a house so I can have one; and I'll be pretty open about being selfish.

Nothing wrong with wanting a house, but unfortunately you're on Balmung. As for fair and square, it used to be in the wild west of FFXIV you could buy as many houses as you could afford- another oversight by the devs no doubt. As it so happens I've downsized from 5 houses over my years, giving away to friends (not selling).

[Izscha]

Thing is, game did not wait for you to put up housing, and for a long time there were a ton of avalaible plots on servers no one wanted.
How can you blame someone for buying multiples plots when absolutly no one wanted it back then ? And on what base should they give up now ?
That's easy to cry nowadays, but the housing situation wasn't like that at all when it came out and during the few first years of it.