We deserve an explanantion.

[Dionysius]

Agree with post above, the dev doesn't have listen to players all the time (sometimes players don't know what they want). They should stick to their vision and if players don't like they can play other games with instanced housing.

[KikiTia]

Agree with post above, the dev doesn't have listen to players all the time (sometimes players don't know what they want). They should stick to their vision and if players don't like they can play other games with instanced housing.

I thought that too until my friends and I lost our chance at a large FC House due to being past the 200 spot in the server queue. We literally got on 10 minutes after the patch and every single large on the server had been taken. And now because of the way the system works the only way for us to get a large house is to pray to god someone with a large quits the game or an FC with a large disbands, or worse yet we have to pay 10x the asking price to go through relocation with someone who owns a large. Creative integrity is all well and good, but it's an issue if it comes at the expense of 80%+ of the player base.

[Fleap]

(sometimes players don't know what they want).

I might be speaking from a slightly biased perspective as a person who quit this game a few times due to frustrations with trying to get into a house and how the devs managed housing through the years, but I am pretty sure after a decade, the fact that players have been begging for more housing means that they want more housing, no matter how it comes.

Frankly instanced housing would be intelligent and solve issues for a lot of people. Not just getting a house, but also, for instance, that you can expand estate settings and let people kick or ban people out of their house. That would reduce stalking, harassment, and other toxic behavior. There are as many players, if not more, that would love that, than players who actually live on wards with active players.

My ward's dead. All of my old FC's wards, across several servers and years, were dead. My current FC's old ward was dead. My current FC's current ward is dead (but at least we can blame that being Empy). My apartment's ward is dead.

For chuck's sake keep a few "live" wards for the people who just have to show off or want to try to band together and be social. Rededicate unused servers to something else, maybe an expandable apartment system that lets you add on rooms or upgrade size or put in a greenhouse balcony. Maybe it can have a list of upgrades pertaining to sizes of each floor, floors, greenery room for a garden, and you get 4 slots to choose your customizations. That would make most players downright ecstatic.

This is miserable. Players are miserable. Devs are miserable. Everyone's miserable and been miserable for a decade. Players have quit over it, players have remained hoping for it, new players have come, and they're all significantly more upset than not. If everyone* hates this, solve it.

(everyone refers to an apparent majority of house-wanting players)

When I first started playing this game years and one account ago (had to ditch the old due to constant harassment from an ex-FC member), the housing quest all but implied housing wasn't for the common folk but was for special folk, like me, like every player character. I was so excited I said in my FC chat "Oh cool! What level do we get a house?" The resounding answer was to give the usual information on what was required, followed up by a "But they're impossible to get, you'll probably never get one." That was eight years ago. I got my house two months ago due to persistence and literal, sheer luck of clicking the placard at just the right second. I'm hardly a super-FFXIV-fanboy but I waited, with a few long breaks between, eight years. I think that's fairly good evidence that this system might have a problem.