Crazy Idea: Everyone can get a house

[YukikoKurosawa]

What if. WHAT IF: We had instanced house plots, single houses existing in their own seperate instances, with a set price for different house sizes, that everyone could save up gil for and buy and customize to their heart's content and you could still invite other players into your instanced house?

Think about it.

[MagicalChase]

but I want neighbors! I like being able to look at other people's houses and sometimes seeing the fc that lives next to mine. They really should just make it so the game adds wards automatically

[YukikoKurosawa]

but I want neighbors! I like being able to look at other people's houses and sometimes seeing the fc that lives next to mine. They really should just make it so the game adds wards automatically

But you never talk to your neighbors. Literally nobody does. You just sit in your own house and interact with your friends. Wards are completely antisocial already because everyone just sticks to interacting with their own cliques and nobody actually socializes as a community. There's no reason we can't have wards and solo instanced housing at the same time.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Also, what if I DON'T want neighbors? What if I want to live as a hermit? Why am I forced to live in a tiny instanced box if I want to live by myself rather than being able to have my own house?

[Mirhd]

Also, what if I DON'T want neighbors? What if I want to live as a hermit? Why am I forced to live in a tiny instanced box if I want to live by myself rather than being able to have my own house?

I mean... we really didn't need another topic on the... uh, topic, but this is lit me. I spend more time in my house away from everyone crafting while watching youtube than anything else.

[Heh]

But you never talk to your neighbors. Literally nobody does. You just sit in your own house and interact with your friends. Wards are completely antisocial already because everyone just sticks to interacting with their own cliques and nobody actually socializes as a community. There's no reason we can't have wards and solo instanced housing at the same time.

Did you just assume that there is no one socializing in a ward among all data centers, and all servers, therefore it's fine to delete it, and turn housing to solo private instance?
Why are you so eager in dismissing the current system that we have, and switching to other completely new untested system that might upset more people? Just because it's working in Elder Scrolls Online doesnt mean it would work in FFXIV.

Instead of completely destroying it and built something new. Why not just improve what we already have. make the wards grows as the server population needs. It's 2022, there is no way their servers unable to handle more than 24. It's a permanent solutions and everyone can get houses if the wards can grow as needed once the existing wards got filled up. This has been done before on other MMO, I don't understand why people think it's a rocket science when scalable, on-demand, cloud computing exists.

[Larirawiel]

WHAT IF: We had instanced house plots

Someone will start to complain, that there are no neighbours.





Cheers

[Krotoan]

Instanced housing is not some unexplored, unknown option.

While I'm sure your solution would work to a degree, it's not like nobody has ever mentioned or considered it. As it is apartments ARE instanced and there's still limits on those for whatever reason.

Perhaps we should be asking the developers what roadblocks THEY see to this solution and why it hasn't been implemented?

[YukikoKurosawa]

Did you just assume that there is no one socializing in a ward among all data centers, and all servers, therefore it's fine to delete it, and turn housing to solo private instance?
Why are you so eager in dismissing the current system that we have, and switching to other completely new untested system that might upset more people? Just because it's working in Elder Scrolls Online doesnt mean it would work in FFXIV.

What are you even talking about? Nobody said remove wards just add instanced solo housing plots as an option for people who either can't get a ward house because they got lucked out or because they just want a lone house all to themselves away from other players.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Perhaps we should be asking the developers what roadblocks THEY see to this solution and why it hasn't been implemented?

"Muh neighborhoods" ~ Yoshi P