Why are some wards not allowing purchase?

[Eraden]

People are clearly interested in housing, but clearly not enough to live in ugly ass Goblet. They rather bid on plots with others bidders than to get guaranteed in Goblet.

You also underestimate how much are people informed about relocating, or even it's existence.
Even if they are, you still lose 85% of your original house's price, and not everybody is fine that, even for S costing "just" 4 million.

But reality is that truly dead servers like Saggitarius has 1300+ houses, which is where I would understand not opening wards. So once again, it's SE being lazy and wanting to open wards of all new servers at the same time, instead of doing that based on individual server's need.

HEY! Goblets NOT "ugly ass"! Mao CHOSE to live in Goblets because is pretty to Mao! GROWF!

[SlouchyBard]

HEY! Goblets NOT "ugly ass"! Mao CHOSE to live in Goblets because is pretty to Mao! GROWF!

I also chose goblet

[LaylaTsarra]

I have a FC in Brimming Heart right on the pool on Balmung and love it.

[Deo14]

[Rinoa_353]

Goblet was where I got my first home before I relocated to Shiro, I bid and won my mansion in Goblet because I had bet less people would do so and it was the case, that made losing any bids elsewhere to relocate much easier to swallow. Then a few weeks ago, I won my bid and relocated to my current mansion in Shiro. So yeah, I would get a home in Goblet first if you really want one and then try relocating, much less stress that way.

[Reinha]

LB>Shiro/Mist>Empy>Gob would seem more accurate based on my observations of housing lotteries with the new DC opening/new wards.

This seems about right, although personally I find Shiro to be the worst looking district. Neighbors right in your face covering the view or their gate is 1 yalm away from yours, bright yellow or pink details on buildings, bamboo and ugly lamps everywhere. I'd rather go back to the pool area in Goblet.

[thekavseklabs]

Maybe it's time to finally rework G(hetto)oblet and possibly Empyreum to make it somewhat attractive for buyers.

Some data from Raiden, which is one of the new EU servers:
There is 355 available private houses in Raiden right now, which is still less than your average JP server. Even Tonberry has 500+ available houses.

From those 355 houses:
- 247 are S in Goblet
- 87 are S in Empyreum
- 7 are M or L
- 1 S in Shirogane
- 13 S in Mist and Lavender combined

But wards 25-30 are still closed after half a year for some reason, which is especially confusing since auto demolition has been off for longer than I can remember.

Both Goblet and Empyreum are clearly not deemed good enough by players, which is fair. Maybe if it was reworked to look less like dystopian brutalistic abomination in the middle of the rocky mountains and more like something where you would want to actually live, it would attract more people.

Or they could just stop adding wards to them and just proportionally add more wards in places that people actually like, instead of wasting space on ugly ass Goblet. I think it's really sad when someone's only option is to get S in Goblet.

Funnily, Empyreum is the one i really, really want. It's my favorite housing area lol, i just really want a large for my fc

[Jojoya]

Everyone has different opinions. It's usually not a good thing to assume that everyone shares yours.

Regardless, as long as there are several plots available to both FCs and individuals on Dynamis then SE will not be opening the remaining wards. If Dynamis players that do not have a house want to get one, they are better off getting what's available rather than holding out for something better. Once what is available is mostly full, then SE will open the remaining wards so they'll have a chance to get something better.

[Deo14]

Seems that my anti-Goblet propaganda is working. How about a triple down?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onrX5ZURtek&t=869s

Regardless, as long as there are several plots available to both FCs and individuals on Dynamis then SE will not be opening the remaining wards. If Dynamis players that do not have a house want to get one, they are better off getting what's available rather than holding out for something better. Once what is available is mostly full, then SE will open the remaining wards so they'll have a chance to get something better.

I don't see why opening wards in new EU servers should be affected by new NA datacenter in any capacity. I get that Dynamis is dead, but new EU servers except Sagittarius are not, and we had auto demolition disabled for a long time, so availability of houses was only decreasing and never increasing.

[Archeron]

Theres nothing wrong with liking the goblet, but the numbers always show that its the least popular housing zone by a longshot.

When new wards open, Goblet always has the most houses demolished from people moving out.

It's the last to sell out all of its Small/Med/Large houses.

Back when housing was scarce I personally owned a house in the Goblet, plot 17. The houses by the pools are ok. But a lot of them are in questionable places, either with a poor outside view, or with a gigantic wall behind them, or a neighbour Directly next to you, who can hang furnishings over their fence into your space sometimes. In almost any other ward the houses are seperated enough that this isn't a problem.