Opening of housing on new worlds

[Rhea_]

Just a new log to throw into the fire pit that is housing.



But wouldn't it make sense before a server opens to clarify. "We will open server July 5th housing cycle will begin July 20th." or maybe "We would like a fresh start on housing for our new server. Transfers locked until 50% of plots are taken by newly created characters. Limiting the amount of bots claiming housing. We will also be using this as a chance to review gil circulation."


SE needs a real PR//community team. The devs should stop doing LL. This isn't the small community pre 2.0. They seem to handle everything poorly. Some of these decisions take two seconds to realize, wow this is going to make people mad.

I guess this is what happens when you shuffle your old good members to different projects.
For instance, we have Koji a lot to thank for when it comes to how they were communicating with us back in 1.0 days leading up to ARR.
The same can be said for Yoshida who had a lot on his plate for several years (being a board member, tackling producer and director roles for this game, and producer for FF16 which has been in development for several years at this point).

I'm sure we can make this list long.

I want however to make it clear, that I still very much enjoy the game but there have been a lot of questionable decisions lately.

[Hasrat]

Took a lot of cycles to go on my ward on Sophia. The two other large plots finally sold with the new wave of privates allowed. There are 26 unsold plots including mediums in my subdivision ward and that's pretty typical of many of them. Other servers have tons of plots available. I don't think that will be the case in the EU which is a lot more established.

This, honestly. Doomers seem to expect these brand new data centers/worlds are already so packed with players rushing a shell FC that housing is already a done deal.

Give it a few months and players on these worlds will be complaining about long queues and dead markets, same as OCE.

[Jojoya]

Why would so called shell FC move to the new servers if they already have houses on there current server?
I think it more of a concern that they are doing this so only the FC who was created on July 5th, when the new worlds opened and not delaying the sales until a month from today, when they opened the ability for people to migrate to the new servers.

Not to mention, I don't think anyone imagined HWT being down for 2 weeks.

They wouldn't be moving their existing FCs. They would be starting new ones.

I doubt it's a problem. No one expected housing to open this fast so I don't think many if any had rushed to make shell FCs that first week.

This, honestly. Doomers seem to expect these brand new data centers/worlds are already so packed with players rushing a shell FC that housing is already a done deal.

Give it a few months and players on these worlds will be complaining about long queues and dead markets, same as OCE.

Except these worlds were added to existing data centers. Queue times will be what they're already used to.

The dead markets will depend on how many of those who transfer to the new worlds make use of things like arbitrage to fill up the marketboards with cheap items from the other worlds. Not many players make use of world visit let alone data center travel to shop for the best price. Players willing to take the time to "import" items for sale could get the new marketboards filled in short order.

[Mika_Zahard]

Yet again, another housing issue, that would've been solved if we had instanced housing.

We'd have Raubahn Ex 2.0 trying to get into our own house. Its already a problem when trying to enter/exit a populated housing ward or housing area when there's too many people inside..

[Jojoya]

We'd have Raubahn Ex 2.0 trying to get into our own house. Its already a problem when trying to enter/exit a populated housing ward or housing area when there's too many people inside..

Sure, if a RP venue is open with 1000 players trying to cram into the same ward there will be problems.

An improved instanced housing system isn't going to generate more problems because players don't have a habit of hanging out in their house or apartment 24/7. We'd already be seeing that happen on a daily basis since everyone is able to get at least an apartment if they're interested in housing.

[Atticon]

I'm seeing over 200 shell FCs listed on Raiden with a level 25 Master and 3 lvl 1 alt members, prepped since the day the server opened two weeks ago.

And these are the FCs that are getting first pickings on the plots because of the 30 day rule? Half of them are probably engaged in RMT and will see those FCs changing Masters and names as soon as they have a plot.