Need more wards.

[Necrotica]

Just keep adding them. Breaks the servers.

Or or or or...
Add fucking instanced housing.

[ZiraZ]

Just add a monthly rent to large houses problem solved, 50mil a month sounds great to me!

[Shurrikhan]

Just add a monthly rent to large houses problem solved, 50mil a month sounds great to me!

Because somehow the housing wasn't exclusive enough and therefore our supply needs to be even more limited?

I'd rather just see, for a start...

1. housing made account-wide and limited to personal house per server per account, and
2. the apartments given a large and entertaining commons area in which to hang out between the various stairway exits up to the actual rooms, ideally with each wing of the apartment complexes having a different room shape and perhaps further sub-variants such as more balcony space (with an actual view of their capital cities). Most of the social benefits of having neighbors, even if their extrinsic benefit (in showing off your house to anyone who happens through the server) is limited to those given permission to visit.

[WillIrishclover]

As someone with a personal house and a FC house, I agree that honestly the system needs relooked at, Yoshi P very clearly has the idea of these living breathing housing wards and clearly wants everyone to have a house, yet doesn't have the number of houes avail to fulfil this dream.

The Original system led to botting and people buying entire wards

The Placard system had very real health issues, I cant believe a system where someone may have to sit clicking a placard for potentially to 24 hours was even approved.

The lottery system leaving things to pure chance has major drawbacks as well.

I think the only solution now is allowing enough houses for everyone an increase in wards

[Wolfspirit]

What they need to do honestly is make it account wide so people so have alts can use the same house as there main. I’ve been trying to get a house ever since I got enough Gil for a small and keep losing every single time.

[Fable]

Demolition and add an extra subdivision to all wards, imo. What happened to upgraded apartments too? I was really looking forward to that.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Honestly?

We don't need more wards - the fact is when 7.0 comes around there will be a OVER-abundance of housing as likely Sharlayan opens; keep in mind that FF 14 is likely not going to grow much faster then it already has - as players quit as the game gets older more plots are going to open. On the VERY busy crystal DC MANY plots had 0 bids on them; its not about just wanting a house at this point - its everyone wanting "the best"
That said
We need to allow our homes to be auto-shared with all our characters.
We need to drastically increase the housing item limits.
We need to allow "additional chambers" on all homes - not just FC's and allow players to have more then 1; so if you want to add rooms to your home you can.
We need to limit the # of homes to 1 character per world if not Per DC.

[Sourcy]

I don't want the best house. I want A house. Any Size. Any house. Any ward or district. I have lost 41 lotteries and been trying since 2.4 on my main on Balmung to get one.

We need either:
1. More wards added, Smalls on the new wards restricted from people relocating.
or
2. Instanced housing.

Almost every plot available for private bidders on Balmung and Mateus had 2+ bids. Every Medium and up had 3+ an Excess of empty houses hurts nobody. Artificial scarcity for the sake of it is bad for people who want this content and have been wanting this content for the better part of a decade and have been locked out.

[Jojoya]

We don't need more wards - the fact is when 7.0 comes around there will be a OVER-abundance of housing as likely Sharlayan opens;

Where are you getting the information that SE plans to open a new housing district in 7.0 and that it will be in Sharlayan?

There is an overabundance of small FC housing because the devs have no idea what they are doing.

I think a better way of putting it would be that they don't understand what players want from housing.

Honestly I think the problem with the everyone getting their "dream house" is people will just mark it off the "to do" list and once they got it just unsub a few months later. I have seen people praise instanced housing - but every game I see it done really seems to be either dead or gone. I think the reality is that when everyone gets everything they want when they want it; they will just stop appreciating it.

So they mark it off their to do list and walk away if they don't have an actual interest in housing. The housing would still be getting enjoyed by those who like having a home for their character and decorating.

That's already happening here. How many players have their house just to mark it off the to do list but never really make use of them? Because they've done that and won't give up the house they aren't using, it's forcing SE to expand wards so those who sincerely want a house can get it. If this was an instanced system, players checking it off their "to do" list and then igoring it wouldn't be a problem.

The reason those other games are "dead or gone" is because the developers failed at the core aspects of their games in some way. None of those games mentioned were housing-focused games, just as FFXIV is not a housing focused game.

Does it make sense to keep a system going where those who don't appreciate what they have get to keep it, while those who would appreciate having it can't get it? It seems like you're talking about players that only see housing as a symbol of prestige. Not everyone views housing in that way. Remove the prestige element created by scarcity and the former would lose interest in housing while the latter would have a more enjoyable game experience.

I don't want the best house. I want A house. Any Size. Any house. Any ward or district. I have lost 41 lotteries and been trying since 2.4 on my main on Balmung to get one.

We need either:
1. More wards added, Smalls on the new wards restricted from people relocating.
or
2. Instanced housing.

Almost every plot available for private bidders on Balmung and Mateus had 2+ bids. Every Medium and up had 3+ an Excess of empty houses hurts nobody. Artificial scarcity for the sake of it is bad for people who want this content and have been wanting this content for the better part of a decade and have been locked out.

Need to keep in mind that a bid doesn't necessarily represent a houseless player. They could be trying to relocate to a more desirable plot.

Once the more desirable plots are sold and we're down to the "better than nothing" smalls, we'll have a much better idea of just how much unmet demand is left on each world.

Anyone who's been trying and failing to get a house for a decade hasn't been trying as hard as they want you to believe. Not even Balmung filled up immediately when wards 13-18 were added in patch 4.2. It doesn't change that now it's more difficult to get a house but if they had actually been trying to get one for all that time, they would have had it at one point.

[Gember]

This is true on your statement that everyone wants the best plots. I had a few FC friends who all bid on mediums and only 1 out of 7 got one, and there was a ton of smalls that didn't have a single bid on them.