FC Wards split is legitimately awful

[Stormpeaks]

Yeah, I don't mind the split but having that many houses be just for FC is insane. 4 months is plenty of time for people to create an FC and meet those requirements to get a house in those wards and that's if the bots and RMT hasn't been hard at work preparing to do the same thing. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out for sure... I'll still try for a medium but yuh...

A lot of fc plots will just stay vacant for very long periods of time, until RMT people start selling them. How to make housing worse 101

[MistyMew]

It should have been a clean 50/50 split, FC are no more deserving of anything.

Even more so, I think SE needs to pony up and provide enough for all FC and all players too.
Its shameful tbh.
They tend to go 1/2 way with most things they implement.

[Arzalis]

I get where folks are coming from, but this is honestly more than usual. Most housing patches they make all the wards 100% FC only.

FCs functionally provide a lot more benefits and house more people, so they really should get priority. That said, the system as a whole is just insufficient. I think people are finally waking up to that, but it's been like this for years so I doubt anything changes.

[DragoAskani]

If anything, this is encouraging people to leave their fcs to make dummy fcs to get houses since personal is so limited

Except they will have to have that dummy FC for at least 30 days to even be able to try. Sooo there is that.

[DynnDiablos]

I think housing wards should have stayed limited to FCs.

Personal housing is, for the most part, quite antisocial and a imo not a very efficient use of server space. Not to mention could be viewed as a central if not *the* central impetus for FFXIV's botting problem. If housing were fairly money-independent and only limited to FCs, we wouldn't really have a real estate market and all the terrors that accompany it.

Maybe I enjoy this game because I don’t have to be social. I love my personal house as my safe space away from people

[StimulusChick]

Mayhap you reserve your judgement until the first round of lottery is over. You assume that everyone wants a personal house but perhaps, there are many FC's that haven't been able to secure a house because there are none available...due to them all being owned as personal houses.

Go forth FC owners and claim your right to housing!

[StimulusChick]

Nice screenshot skills, first of all. Secondly, yes it is me. Anything else you would like to know about me or do you wish to participate in the topic of this forum thread? I assume you are here to discuss and not pull posts from public discords to paste all over the internet, though, I could be wrong.

/shrug

[muras4ki]

Assuming SE either wants to push housing towards FCs, or has hard numbers to back up why they are splitting it this way. I would be very surprised if the FC wards don't fill at the same rate as the personals. A 2-person FC is just as valid as a 50-person one. The 30 day requirement will deter people/bots making new FCs, and by the time 30 days passes, Ishgard will all be claimed.

[ElenaRedoran]

I don't see the problem. FC houses are clearly way more in demand and the housing districts were always meant to be for FCs rather than 1 person owning a house they'll never use anyways. The amount of houses I see never used, with nobody around them is absolutely insane.

Besides, if you really wanted a house, you would have got one way before the lottery system was added. Your odds are much, MUCH lower now even if it was all private districts rather than FC.

[Kyssa]

/Popcorn