Unable to log in to prevent house demolition due to real world issues

[Deo14]

I would love examples, or if you can link me to the thread that would be great, too! I'm still learning my way around the forums.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...6-Yoshi-P-lied

Here's the thread I was talking about. It's about how Yoshi said that FFXVI will not affect development of FFXIV, but well, here we are, with people calling this worst expansion so far, sometimes even worse than ARR.

What Storm said about him saying that auto-demolition seems to be true, it's not a first time I've heard it. But it's really annoying to find sources for this kind of stuff. It's not only old, but often in japanese too. So here's few I've found. Not necessarily lies, but inaccuracies too.

https://ricedigital.co.uk/interview-...-xivs-yoshi-p/

When people play role-playing games, they like to enhance their characters. If we don’t add a raised level cap to each expansion, then maybe players will be discouraged. The level cap will increase with each expansion but we want to add more elements so that you can further enhance your characters.

This was in SB, not sure where are the elements to further enhance your characters.

https://ffxiv.jeuxonline.info/actual...k-2017#english

However we are able to track players who buy a house with the intent of making a profit reselling it, so rest assure that we are taking actions against these players.

Yeah no, that's clearly not a case. He also said that there will be more policies to prevent people from buying multiple plots, but I'm on new server, 2 expansions later, and there are many wards with same FC blatantly owning 5+ houses.

https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fant...ltimate-mmorpg

So we will release the content, and then iteratively make adjustments while keeping an eye on the player feedback.

They are not doing this at all. Rokkon is same as Sildihn, Island Sanctuary is just getting additive upgrades with exterior furniture being only major feature they added in the span of nearly whole year. Instead of iterating on any of previous relic system, they scrapped whole relic idea and gave us participation award.

Honestly, looking at these old interviews, it's sad how some of these questions still apply 1:1 today.



Simply said, it's not like he's chronical liar, it's just that he's been there for 10 years and he's the main PR guy, so of course there will be some inaccuracies or even outright lies. I'm just opposing the argument that he never lied.

Oh no, I think you've misunderstood me. The devs have shown that they are happy to do the manual labor that is required to create new wards. But assuming Yoshi-P is telling the truth, what is far more difficult would be to change that system. Now, difficult doesn't mean impossible, but the devs only have a limited amount of bandwidth with which to create everything that is presented in each new patch and expansion. The content and improvements they make are among the game's most prominent selling points, so they want to get as much bang for their buck as possible so that they (hopefully) make their fans happy and in turn their fans will keep funding the development of the game.

But not all tasks are created equal. The resources it takes to overhaul housing might be resources that could instead be used to make one dungeon, or two Ultimates, or a whole expansion. I genuinely don't know how much it would take to do such a thing, but the point is that it would be a large undertaking. And if the devs decided to do it, it means they would have to not do other stuff that people also want. And that's a big part of the unenviable task that Yoshi-P has: he makes the hard choices about what to make and what to cut, with the goal of making the most fans possible as happy as possible.

I think you should keep voicing your wants and your dissatisfaction if that's what you feel. Let the devs know what you want, which will help them to better prioritize the kinds of content and improvements they work on.

That said, I've worked in games and tech, so I totally understand when the devs can't provide what some players want, even when it would make everyone happy. Sometimes there's just not the bandwidth to make thing W because all the resources are already devoted to things X, Y, and Z which players feel more strongly about. So for my part, I just try to be understanding of the devs limitations.

You can check some of those interviews, it's clear that housing was in pretty rough shape already in Stormblood. Yet here we are, 2.5 expansions later and there are same problems. There are no changes after such a long time, when even LotR:O has instanced housing. There are very lax regulations, meaning that people can abuse housing system and have multiple houses or use shell FCs. No improvements to apartments, that whole idea seems to be abandoned, it's really just a last resort for people who are desperate for housing. Apartments are so depressing, they're just boxes with very obvious fake window.

Which is why people are just unhappy and impatient, and conspiracies that it's intentional to milk us start to circulate. There are also problems like clear regional preferences.

Recently I did some housing analysis of free available plots, which concluded that JP regions are in significantly better housing situation than EU/NA, and that JP and EU/NA have different needs when it comes to FC and private housing. So even if they couldn't add more wards, they could change ratio of FC to Private wards on server basis to at least alleviate the problems.