How to fix housing in 2 steps

[bhffs]

1) Add instanced houses to the instanced apartment systems. Some (most?) of us just want an exterior and gardening space.
2) I realize this might be controversial. If always-on wards do in fact require significant additional server resources there should be a (small) additional monthly fee required. This money could be used to expand server resources to allow for more wards if necessary so that everyone that wanted one could get one. It would also discourage individual players from hoarding large amounts of plots.

[Siniztor]

1) Add instanced houses to the instanced apartment systems. Some (most?) of us just want an exterior and gardening space.
2) I realize this might be controversial. If always-on wards do in fact require significant additional server resources there should be a (small) additional monthly fee required. This money could be used to expand server resources to allow for more wards if necessary so that everyone that wanted one could get one. It would also discourage individual players from hoarding large amounts of plots.

We all ready paid for housing its in the description of the game (Taken from gamestop ff14 page)

Level cap raised from 80 to 90
New jobs - Sage and Reaper
Expansive new areas, including Labyrinthos, Thavnair, Garlemald, and Mare Lamentorum
A new playable race: male Vierra
New dungeons, high-difficulty raid, and alliance raid series
A new small-scale PvP mode
An additional Trust ally: Estinien Wyrmblood
A new residential district: Ishgard
Updates to the Gold Saucer
Relaxing fun in Island Sanctuary

How about SE just fixs the problem with instance houses or stop advertising the game has them????

[KayRadley]

How about SE just fixs the problem with instance houses or stop advertising the game has them????

Just because you don't have a house in Ishgard doesn't mean the game has not provided what it advertised.

Also, Ishgard has apartments. Use one.

[Siniztor]

Just because you don't have a house in Ishgard doesn't mean the game has not provided what it advertised.

Also, Ishgard has apartments. Use one.

First off I dont have a house cause im waiting for transfer thank you.. Its not about me havening a house in a zone i personally dont even like lol Its about advertising stuff you cant supply to all players.. As far as a apartment i have one thank you...

[Gunbladesman]

Just because you don't have a house in Ishgard doesn't mean the game has not provided what it advertised.

Also, Ishgard has apartments. Use one.

Anyone who equates apartments to full housing is on some massive copium

[Silverbane]

Anyone who equates apartments to full housing is on some massive copium

Anyone who equates Gamestop marketing FFXIV as having "a new residential district" to being a promise from SE that players will be provided with a detached house has, at best, some serious English comprehension issues. And at worst ... well, let's just send them our thoughts and prayers, shall we?

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

Anyone who equates Gamestop marketing FFXIV as having "a new residential district" to being a promise from SE that players will be provided with a detached house has, at best, some serious English comprehension issues. And at worst ... well, let's just send them our thoughts and prayers, shall we?

GameStop doesn't create the advertisements. SquareEnix creates and sends to GameStop and others ("retailers") who then then distribute them. SquareEnix increases their reach with the retailer's customers and those retailers get the advertising dollars SquareEnix sent their way to promote their advertisements.

[Jojoya]

1) Add instanced houses to the instanced apartment systems. Some (most?) of us just want an exterior and gardening space.

In the past, SE has told us that intercross gardening is not possible in housing interiors because it's tied to weather that does not exist inside of instances. (interiors always show Fair Skies as a placeholder regardless of what the weather condition in the ward is)

Intercross gardening is one of those features that is "you think you do but you probably really don't". There's a reason why you can tour wards and find few gardens in use, and even fewer set up for intercross. Most players who give it a try will abandon it since it requires daily log in and gets quite annoying with RNG depending on what seed you're trying to obtain.

If you just want the general ability to grow things from seeds, that can be done with flowerpots. Any seed will grow in a flowerpot, including the decorative flower seeds that can't be grown in garden patches.

[bhffs]

In the past, SE has told us that intercross gardening is not possible in housing interiors because it's tied to weather that does not exist inside of instances. (interiors always show Fair Skies as a placeholder regardless of what the weather condition in the ward is)

That sounds extremely easy to fix. Simply choose a home location for your instanced house (for example, Empyreum), and the instance inherits the weather that is happening there.

[Jojoya]

That sounds extremely easy to fix. Simply choose a home location for your instanced house (for example, Empyreum), and the instance inherits the weather that is happening there.

If it was that easy to fix, housing would have been designed that way from the start.

What I'm interested in seeing is just how weather is going to work on Island Sanctuary. Is it just going to be a placeholder skybox the way it is in any other instance, or have they figured out a way to give it actual weather. If they've given it actual weather, then maybe they're close to a solution for weather in instances in general and housing specifically.