One player owning multiple houses

[Silverclaw]

Hey Everyone.
I noticed around my housing area that someone has bought a plot of land, but not building a house on it, for at least one week.
The two plots next to it look pretty same.
All plots are bought from a guild, which has just one member in it. All these character have a familiar name and are level 2, which is why I suspect that it's just one player holding all these plots.
Is this even worth reporting? Does SE take any action there?

[Sauteed]

Well, there isnt a whole lot you can do. The developers have implemented began their new method of dealing with housing so we can wait and see, try to find a housing mega thread to state your concerns and hope one of them sees it.

Other than that, do your best to enjoy the game. They are introducing some new houses with Ishgard in 6.1 I think. As far as 1 player owning multiple houses, I'm of the firm belief, if you own multiple accounts, each one is just as entitled to own a house as your "main", and all issues of shortages or supply and demand are SOLELY on said development team and 0% anyone else's. And yes there are people who take this to an extremely disrespectful extreme and fight against the spirit of the game but that's just how its been going.

[Nepentha]

SE does not take action against this, no.

[Dewslam]

Welcome to Square Enix's housing system, working as intended.

[Silverclaw]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Nexxus]

Need a Fee system in this game.

[Dewslam]

Need a Fee system in this game.

That wouldn't help because most of these people also have billions of gold spread across their alts. The true solution are the things square will literally never do: one plot of land per service account period, or instanced housing so every character and every FC can get their own, non public, house.

[Rhysati]

It really is inexcusable in 2021 that any MMO is still failing on housing(WoW still hasn't even shown up!). Everquest 2 had apartments and houses throughout all the cities you could just walk up to a door and go into an instanced housing. In EQ2 you can have twenty-five!!!! houses PER character. It came out in 2004.

Since then LotRO made housing districts just like FFXIV did. And have never had the problem of housing not being available. Not even on the largest roleplay servers. If a district got too full, a new one would generate on the fly with a new name for that neighborhood. It came out in 2007. Star Wars Galaxies came out in 2003 with the ability for players to not only build a house wherever the heck they liked on the planet, but could also form into collective villages and become cities with its own spaceport, cantina, guard troops, etc. City of Heroes/Villains developed Superhero and Supervillain bases that you could build from scratch, putting together your own layouts and decorating them as you saw fit. It came out 2004.

We also have more modern games with housing. Wildstar had impecable housing where you could not only put items anywhere you like in 3D space, but could resize objects to tiny tokens or giant structures. SWTOR lets you own housing and slowly build up and expand it over time. GW2 lets you make gigantic guild halls that are more like large outdoor maps you can fly in. You can decorate them to your hearts content. ESO allows housing all over the world and you can buy every single one of them if you like, there is no limit.

This list could go on and on, but the point is: What do all of these games have in common aside from having housing? None of them have/had restrictions like FFXIV. In each and every one of them you are entitled access to that house/guild hall system if you are a player. They aren't full up. They aren't super limited. You just walk up, pay your fee or whatever you have to do and you have your house/hall. Done.

FFXIV has failed hard when it has come to accessibility of housing and I say this as someone who has one.

[Remish]

If we think the congestion is back now. Just wait til Ishgard Housing wars.

[FrogDog]

People need vacation homes or they might want to rent their extra houses out to people. It's the free market.