Let's talk about bot housing business

[Archeron]

I find this is more of an issue on bigger servers like my mains server leviathan and other big servers where people have multiple homes like this when bigger servers have actual housing supply problems. but on dynamis oceania and the 4 recent EU servers where there are still a couple thousand houses available why complain about a ward when you can easily go to any ward and buy a house.

It's not as simple as "Just go buy a house." There is decent competition on Large/Medium plots across most wards on our server, most of them with 8+ bids even in goblet. (This doesn't sound like much if you're on an older server, but for us thats a notable increase.) With the announcement of Xbox integration, and 7.0's player boom heading to Dynamis people have had their eyes on our housing for awhile now, and have had time to accquire many juicy plots for resale. The last thing we want is for the housing problems to be amplified and made even worse on Dynamis, and the solution to solve these problems isn't exactly clear cut, but a little GM moderation, or investigation of certain Discord servers would ice a lot of the illicit house sales.

I can tell judging by the people here trying to justify this I had to block some trolls like Stormpeaks cause it was pointless to discuss with that person.
I hope something gets changed with this, that's what the forums are for - to bring up issues with the game ^^

It's certainly commendable to try opening the GM's eyes to this, we can only hope for them to do just a little bit of investigation into it.

[Nebelheim]

It's not as simple as "Just go buy a house." There is decent competition on Large/Medium plots across most wards on our server, most of them with 8+ bids even in goblet. (This doesn't sound like much if you're on an older server, but for us thats a notable increase.) With the announcement of Xbox integration, and 7.0's player boom heading to Dynamis people have had their eyes on our housing for awhile now, and have had time to accquire many juicy plots for resale. The last thing we want is for the housing problems to be amplified and made even worse on Dynamis, and the solution to solve these problems isn't exactly clear cut, but a little GM moderation, or investigation of certain Discord servers would ice a lot of the illicit house sales.

Yeah i wish they provided more medium and larges in each ward. A lot of the medium and larges were bought up fast on dynamis when i was there before going back to primal.

[Archeron]

Yeah i wish they provided more medium and larges in each ward. A lot of the medium and larges were bought up fast on dynamis when i was there before going back to primal.

I agree with this. We definetely need more medium/Large houses in any new wards they put out there.

[Absimiliard]

This thread is basically the FFXIV equivalent of provoking the mafia. Rofl.

[Reddyo]

This thread is basically the FFXIV equivalent of provoking the mafia. Rofl.

I like this game and I'd like to see it fixed. Whether it is bots running FCs to sell it, or some people exploting housing with their seven millions alts, it's something shady that should be looked into, whether is it against TOS or not is the question for developers, if this gets to their eyes.

[PintyMcEars]

I like this game and I'd like to see it fixed. Whether it is bots running FCs to sell it, or some people exploting housing with their seven millions alts, it's something shady that should be looked into, whether is it against TOS or not is the question for developers, if this gets to their eyes.

You have evidence of bots in these FCs?

[Pratini]

Bold thread.

[Renalt]

Unfortunately just about every choice made about how to handle housing has been the wrong choice. If they just did instanced housing it would be a non-issue.

[Archeron]

Instanced housing I suspect will have the same issues that Island Sanctuary suffers from. Now for the simple minded people lurking here, I'm not against instanced housing, I just doubt its effectiveness in stopping illicit house sales, and MHO. It's pretty obvious that Square isn't taking any feedback on this issue, and if I had to speculate, I'd say their answer to these problems will likely be to add more medium/large plots to future housing zones. Will it solve any problems? Probably not.

The easiest thing that Square can do, right now, is have GM's lurking around on house selling discord servers, and websites, and start demolishing, and banning left and right. Sellers get banned, Buyers get banned, house gets demolished. As far as multi home owners go, Have fun paying for all of those accounts.

[Koros]

GM's lurking around on house selling discord servers, and websites, and start demolishing, and banning left and right

lmao what a terrible idea