Thread: So everyones talking about the lottery what about our own personal island?

So yeah, when they announced we were going to get our own personal instanced Island I was excited. I decided to come back in Feburary because I figured the launch was going to have issues and of course my own personal island is not there. Now people are upset about the lottery system, but I only care about my personal island.

When are we getting that? I don't want to compete with the housing system as is.

They're releasing in 6.2 IIRC, which should be coming out in august or september.

Originally Posted by HisShadowX

So yeah, when they announced we were going to get our own personal instanced Island I was excited. I decided to come back in Feburary because I figured the launch was going to have issues and of course my own personal island is not there. Now people are upset about the lottery system, but I only care about my personal island.

When are we getting that? I don't want to compete with the housing system as is.

Island is probably not going to be what you think it is

All that theyve said about the island since announcing it is that you should lower your expectations. And that it will most likely be part of the 6.2x patch content. So august-october. But dont expect much.

Islands won't compete with houses. So don't expect it to be a haven for selling Thavnarian Onions or anything. Though even if it was, the market would tank.

They had the sea of clouds for years, they could give everyone an instance personal island. There's the Sea in SB ... plenty space for private islands, both of those things can be directly connected to lore w/o making it weird.

Not to think bad about SE, but connecting the plot and how rare and difficult it is to get one to the subscription, makes them extra money for sure. Making an instanced housing area will cost them time which is money, which if it does indeed remain yours while not being subed has the potential to lose them money.

That being said, fingers crossed for Islands being better then we hope for.

Originally Posted by Voidedge_Ragna

They had the sea of clouds for years, they could give everyone an instance personal island. There's the Sea in SB ... plenty space for private islands, both of those things can be directly connected to lore w/o making it weird.

Not to think bad about SE, but connecting the plot and how rare and difficult it is to get one to the subscription, makes them extra money for sure. Making an instanced housing area will cost them time which is money, which if it does indeed remain yours while not being subed has the potential to lose them money.

That being said, fingers crossed for Islands being better then we hope for.

Player housing was perhaps the only good thing about FF11. Now FFXIV is way more popular but come on the Mog Station right now does not have any good offering. People would pay for their own personal themed Island if we are talking about time and money that would be a money maker.

Verminion and Chocobo Racing never excited me. I think Sanctuary will fall into the same mini-game category.

Considering that Yoshi-P has expressed concern that players are trying to liken the Island Sanctuary to Animal Crossing and/or Personal Housing, I wouldn't recommend counting the chickens before they hatch. I think it's safest to assume it will be a copy of the Island Sanctuary from FFXI, and just be pleasantly surprised when they tell us "yes, we're also including the ability to spend 20 million gil to buy a pre-designed tiny home for your minions that you can't enter or interact with!"