Thread: Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

Originally Posted by geekgirl101

I've seen this kind of behaviour on a lot of posts, especially some I made in the past. People can't seem to grasp that not everything is binary and completely miss the point entirely. That said I am completely in favour of not having FCFS come back. I was there when it was in Shirogane and trying to log in within 3 minutes of the servers coming up was a nightmare of lobby errors and long queues before I finally got in the game to only find 1 unclaimed house throughout the whole of my server, half the ones people in my FC had their eyes set on that were close to the FC house were snapped up by bots and were unoccupied for months. FCFS is only giving houses to bots and house flippers. There won't be any choice of FCFS and lottery for buyers when there are no houses on FCFS wards to buy as soon as the servers open.

It is binary, there are a finite number of houses and there are nowhere near enough for everyone who wants one. Any wards split up into FCFS to cater to people who specifically want that system are wards and houses not available to the Lottery system. It's not advocating for FCFS in addition, it's asking for wards to be removed from the more fair lottery system so that a few people can have a better shot at getting a house personally.

Originally Posted by Fenril7

There is no reason why they can’t have at least 3 wards open for FCFS.

3 wards for FCFS mean 3 less wards for a fairer more inclusive lottery system. That reason alone should be enough to say no FCFS at all

Originally Posted by Kyssa

Do you honestly think that with the queues we experienced for the release of Endwalker, that we're gonna be unscathed by issues when this patch launches?


You're like a little kid with their fingers in their ears, screaming, "I can't hear you! la la la!" Believe what you want. Wish in one hand and all that jazz. Hope it works out for you.

Where on earth are you getting that impression from what I've said?

I know log in when the patch releases will be a mess. It always is for the major patch releases even without a housing drop. It gets even worse when there is a housing drop.

I feel like you don't understand the point I was making there.

Originally Posted by Jojoya

Where on earth are you getting that impression from what I've said?

I know log in when the patch releases will be a mess. It always is for the major patch releases even without a housing drop. It gets even worse when there is a housing drop.

I feel like you don't understand the point I was making there.

I understood what you were saying, Jojoya- I was pointing out to Fenril7 what you'd said about how queues were when the last house patch dropped, and how it will likely be just as bad, if not worse for the upcoming one.

Best to worst systems:

Instanced - Lotto - FCFS.

Unfortunately the 1st one doesn't exist in this game

Originally Posted by Jandor

Best to worst systems:

Instanced - Lotto - FCFS.

Unfortunately the 1st one doesn't exist in this game

For God’s sake, FC room and Apartment is instanced, just not what you are looking for does not mean they are not instanced.
Also bring up Wild Star and Rift as example is also absurd, two dead games because no one wants to play and EOS is already on life support
If these games have same population size as WoW and FF14 they too are going run into same problem and will not be able to offer “instanced” to everyone

Originally Posted by Kyssa

I understood what you were saying, Jojoya- I was pointing out to Fenril7 what you'd said about how queues were when the last house patch dropped, and how it will likely be just as bad, if not worse for the upcoming one.

My apologies then - your response after your quote of my reply made it appear you were responding to me.

I come back through here every now and again to see what, if any, progress has been made with Housing in FFXI, and every time I come back there isn't any meaningful change on the horizon. Now the solution will be a lottery system. Better than what we had, not as good as what we could.

What I don't understand is the resistance against adding to the instanced versions of housing, both on the part of the players and the devs. It seems like such an obvious solution - those who really just want to have *access* to the things that are missing get what they want, and the people who like the big empty wards around them get their neighborhoods. The instances are already there in the form of apartments. Where does this need for the houses to be 'more useful' than the apartments come from? I thought it was about having the experience of a neighborhood. Isn't that what the argument has been against instancing all this time - that we want to keep the neighborhoods? Then keep them. I don't care. And you shouldn't care either about what you aren't seeing me do or not do in my little slice of instanced FFXIV paradise.

I have a house now, but I'd give it up in a heartbeat for an apartment that had access to gardening. Then someone who cares about having some ERP strip club next door can live the dream and I could stop setting an alarm to make sure I enter the stupid building every 30 days.

The whole system is just such a mess.

The big problem with this whole discussion is that one side is arguing for there to be *enough* for everyone and equal opportunity for all. The other side is arguing for many to go without so that a few can have more opportunities and resources than they even use. It's such a lousy attitude.