"Lack of content"... Minor housing rant

[Ket-Xil]

This thread is literally in response to Kizuya's thread, but yeah they definitely had 0 emotions thinking "hmm yes I need to make a thread telling people to touch grass, find another MMO" because reasons. Totally not an emotional decision at all or them losing their mind because people are criticizing their toy, they just happened to make this thread telling people to quit the game lol

If you truly think that I was being emotional then sure I won't convince you otherwise. My literal second thread ever and already you can see it as emotionally losing my mind. I will concede to you that it does annoy me when people suggest instanced housing like it's something that can magically appear out of nowhere without any technical support backing it.

And it absolutely is a response to Kizuya's thread along with the many comments within. My reasons for telling people to find another MMO is because the philosophy of FFXIV doesn't fit with what they are looking for. Playing an MMO and wanting FPS. If you are looking at FFXIV for a shooter, then yes I would say you should quit the game.

Touch grass is funny.

Are you sure you're not getting emotional for your reply to a stranger on the internet to be full caps mocking?

[Shibi]

So the game philosophy has always been to not shackle the player to the game.

Housing is a shackle.

[Kolsykol]

Housing is a shackle.

Okay Sylvanas.

Oh damn, are people gonna get mad I referenced WoW now ?

[Ket-Xil]

Housing is a shackle.

If you choose to engage in it, yes. you are right.

[SieyaM]

Housing is a shackle.

People say this all the time but if you're only paying to maintain a house in a game you don't want to play anymore, then why are you even worried about keeping the house?

[Syln]

People say this all the time but if you're only paying to maintain a house in a game you don't want to play anymore, then why are you even worried about keeping the house?

It's not because the game is currently boring for me that i don't want to come back when contents will be released and i certainly won't lose my house which was an investment of multiple dozens of million gils just because of that stupid system so yeah i alternate between sub and unsub from one month to another, luckily my latest resub was last week so i have the new dailies to do for now.

I love my house and i spend a lot of time and gils on it so i won't let it go so easily even though it's frustrating to sub to something i don't feel like playing.

[Kaurhz]

Oh, will this be more of the usual "I want to criticize the game, yet don't want to see my suggestions be open to the same scrutiny myself." ghetto?

Whether people like it or not the game direction and philosophy have changed, and if the apparent overall job design trend isn't an indication that they don't really intend on taking another direction in the foreseeable future then I think the proposal of play other games and try other games is only really logical. Granted, I would say they are oft' presented in the most dismissive way possible. But it's just logical, and if some of the vitriolic comments either on this thread or on others is indicative to players' enthusiasm towards the community at a difference in opinion then I would also argue that it is a healthy proposal.

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Poor multi billionaire Square Enix who can't afford more server space for housing.

[Avatre]

Poor multi billionaire Square Enix who can't afford more server space for housing.

99.999999% of the time it's not the company not being able to afford it, it's the people who approve the financial decisions to purchase things like this that don't get why it is a good idea to do it(happier players spreading word, potentially bringing in more and more players who will sub thus giving more money to the big wigs). And for that, it falls on multiple layers of people to get it TO those people who make the decision to approve or not, and if the pitch it properly worded to get the request approved.

[Arcadious]

so do people think in game instances are magical no-cost "things"? No, instances like EVERYTHING ELSE IN A PROGRAM has a size, a space it takes up. Please stop talking about instanced housing as if it's something that can easily be implemented without a hardware cost associated with it. (Yes I do have a technical background)

Do you really have a techincal background? Are you aware that the bits that make up your forum avatar's thumbnail is likely larger than the file size of a large plot?

A datafile containing a manifest of items and their associated properties (coordinates, dye, on/off, etc) would be tiny, no matter your housing size.

Instanced housing is an architecture issue, not a storage issue.