The Real Problem with Housing

[TwistedTea]

"features are bad"
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If we look at the history of housing in XIV, ward housing when first released was only for FCs and the original placard prices were exorbitantly expensive (~50m smalls) on some servers.

Ward housing was something for FCs to collectively grind out.

But players complained about the pricing and about wanting personal houses.

SE had initially stated that personal houses would be separate from FC houses.

However, SE did not deliver on this and instead let both FCs and players, purchase the same ward houses.

What happens when you lower the price of a highly in demand item but not increase supply to match?

Prior to 6.1, ~70% of the houses across servers were owned as personals based on Lodestone data.

Limited ward housing was not designed with increasing server populations in mind or every individual player owning a ward house.

SE was short-sighted in pursuing a housing solution like limited ward housing, which is not scalable.

But what makes it worse is that SE persists on doubling down on limited ward housing, instead of providing a fully instanced solution going forward.

Yes, by all means keep the existing ward housing for players who want to fight it out for 'exclusive/flex' houses.

But for everyone else who just wants a house their friends can visit etc, please SE, fully instanced housing is long past due.