How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Ixon]

You even gloss over the fact that they are , once again , throwing new band-aids on top of a now festering wound . There is only one solution to a system that requires much larger server space to alleviate the housing ownership issues . More servers . You shouldn't , if in good faith ,design a system that needs the room to house virtual neighbourhoods and not have the servers to host it all.

They created exclusivity behind a paywall when they didnt need to. Of course it wont change now because people pay up.




You should give your arms a rest after all that water you carry for SqE.

Tell you what, you tell me what FFXIV system nailed it correctly on the first try that didn't require years of improvement to get to it's best state? Tell you another, you go back to the 1.0 system and rebuild a game limited by that system from the ground up. You tell me how much server space is required for instances housing for a million people, how many servers you will need for that, what's the cost per server, lay out the oh-so simple plan of action to go from the housing we have now to the housing system you want, and you've got me sold. Because while I am not personally a game dev, I know that circumstances and resources available(both technological and personnel) are the driving force for why things are the way they are. What I find interesting is they didn't create exclusivity behind a paywall because the auto-demolition didn't exist when houses were originally introduced. It was later added as a by product of a housing shortage because it's a hell of a lot easier to kick unsubbed people out than all the leg work for more plots. That's not scummy, that's just using your head. Also, people "pay up" to play the game, housing is just an addition to the game. If you only pay a sub for a house, then maybe you don't like the game, then why would you stay subbed? For a house you could just rebuy later? What you seem to not understand is to add anything to this game, you have to subtract what you COULD add. To spin their dev team for a massive rehaul of the housing system, you would have to take them from any other project they could have been working on in the meantime.

The whole housing situation CAN be better, but you know what helps? Being realistic with and understanding with the current and future state of the game to work towards a solution that makes players happy, and is feasible by the dev team. Anyone can spout "this should be this because I said so and I don't care what it takes", but you get a lot farther by working with the current flow than swimming against. "How dare SE make virtual neighborhoods in an MMO in an effort to cultivate communities, and how dare they not nail it right on the first try and lay an unchanging foundation to last over a decade" gimme a break. Now if they NEVER addressed it and NEVER made strides to make it better, then I'd be in your boat. Though as far as I can tell, they've addressed it, many times, and have made strides to improve it, many times.