Housing lottery round 2

[LaylaTsarra]

Question: Is there a way to tell if a plot is available for individual players or an FC without having to click on the sign out front of the plot? Because all I keep running into are FC only buying plots.

Wards 1 to 18 in all housing districts are currently FC only so you don't really have to look at any of those at this time. When they decide assuming they will go mixed then yes you will probably have to check.

[Soge01]

Wards 1 to 18 in all housing districts are currently FC only so you don't really have to look at any of those at this time. When they decide assuming they will go mixed then yes you will probably have to check.

Ah, okay Thank you!

[Moonlite]

I like how our MO is to just keep conceding to Square Enix that this is the best they can do and that they'll just forever add more wards; and they should never stop doing that and just make instanced housing instead (because they absolutely can.) It's very clear that people don't want smalls, they will never be happy with just smalls and for good reason; why should we just say "ok, well youre not entitled to a bigger house in this game you pay to play" shouldn't it be fun? Shouldnt you actually be able to work towards a goal?

Why should we admit that its horrible and let that remain the standard? Does it being absolute garbage make you feel immersed? Maybe more people should be asking for instanced housing/homesteads lol

I have many posts about why SE should do something about the housing system. We are 8 years in. SE refuses to do anything, even when it means going back on their word. We have been ignored and they have looked bad. They still refused to do anything. They created one of the worst, if not the worst housing system in any MMO. Still refused to fix it.



I don't think they are doing the best they can. I just know they don't care, about us. People claim be nice to the dev team, they are people. Yet ignore the fact that players have had eight years of someone not listening and not caring that what they do is bothering some one. Then to make matters worse and it is even in this thread, SE apologists belittling the hurt. Maybe I am just resigned that we can all suffer equally at least.

[hydralus]

lol,
lmao

First, that's not an FC plot. Second, turns out OP already has a medium and wants to upgrade to a large. I'm not gonna wish them luck for that.

[Stormpeaks]

First, that's not an FC plot. Second, turns out OP already has a medium and wants to upgrade to a large. I'm not gonna wish them luck for that.

What's wrong with upgrading from a medium to a large ? Since when do people get shamed for wanting to upgrade from one size to a larger size ?

[Mika_Zahard]

Why don't you move to a less populated server?

You fool. Malboro is one of the least populated servers, yet there's house SHORTAGES everywhere.

[LianaThorne]

What's wrong with upgrading from a medium to a large ? Since when do people get shamed for wanting to upgrade from one size to a larger size ?

It's not about shaming, it's that loads of people/FCs are going for larges because we had so much time to save up with the delays. The odds of anyone getting a large now is slim to none.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

Let's just call it as it is. Yoshi and the Devs are clueless to housing like some other things. They get some some stuff done very well and others half-assed. Housing will and always be a joke. They still use a system that is over a decade old because they refuse to fix it. I wouldn't care if it took a couple weeks to shut off the game to implement some new changes.

[Corvus_V]

First, that's not an FC plot.

oh youre right i guess that makes the situation definitely not look 100x worse

Second, turns out OP already has a medium and wants to upgrade to a large. I'm not gonna wish them luck for that.

would you wish anyone luck in the first place?
im actually very aware of the fact that there are FC plots that had this many bids on them. nobody wants a small. maybe re-evaluate why it is that you think "i dont want to wish this person luck (if i ever would for anyone at all) because they dont want a smaller house with a smaller item limit they can barely decorate."

have you stopped to imagine that maybe we shouldn't be fighting over medium and large houses in the first place? maybe you should be able to own whatever you can afford; since SE actually has the resources to do so and is actively dying on the hill of "why wont you guys become the neighborhood we want to see!!!"

[PoisonBerries]

I have many posts about why SE should do something about the housing system. We are 8 years in. SE refuses to do anything, even when it means going back on their word. We have been ignored and they have looked bad. They still refused to do anything. They created one of the worst, if not the worst housing system in any MMO. Still refused to fix it.

They really need to fix it instead of band-aid patching it. 8 years and it's still like this? Yikes. The lottery doesn't address the underlying issue of insufficient housing supply. 75% of wards being FC only for a good while certainly doesn't help. The demand for private housing is greater, people want to have full freedom to decorate their own lot. They should have inversed the ratio for wards or at least made it 50/50. Or better yet, just make instanced housing already.

Super frustrating when my retainers give me exterior furnishings I'll likely never get to use. This is one of the biggest MMOs on the market, the housing system shouldn't be this poor. Other MMOs I played guaranteed I'd have a house at some point, this one's the outlier. It really stinks.