It's time to add more wards to housing

[Ascended_Demon]

Tell that to Dyna who can't even develop a culture since DC travel became a thing.

RIP Dynamis. We hardly knew ya.

[Atelier-Bagur]

RIP Dynamis. We hardly knew ya.

There final hope is for 7.0 to flood their servers. But that is waited to be seen

[Khryseis_Astra]

I’m definitely in the “add instanced already” camp, but as far as more wards go, it looks like the current UI has room for another 6 wards per district for a total of 36. But that’s just a visual thing; whether the servers have enough room to back that up is another matter! I’d also be interested in seeing an Old Sharlayan district added. If it’s in the works at all, we’ll probably hear about it in one of the Fanfests. Otherwise it’s probably not on the radar for 7.0. And there’s also the locked wards on Dynamis, that maybe they’ll open when the Xbox players start, assuming they get funneled to Dynamis, as they should IMO.

Seriously though, instanced could solve a lot of problems, making both availability in general and choice of size a non-issue, without the heavy server load the wards create. Some people will always prefer the “neighborhood” feel of the wards, and as that was the devs’ vision, that’s what they’ve stuck with. But just seeing the things that can be done in an instanced system like IS, it makes me sad that there isn’t an instanced version being added. All they really need to do is decorate a handful of scenic spaces and put a plot on them. Sure they might be one size fits all within a given theme (like only one forest style, beach style, etc.) but some people just want to decorate a house. They don’t care about anything more than having a canvas for their creativity and a space for their personal use. And just think of all the potential! If they did it, and it ended up being popular, they could add new themes every so often and you could eventually live anywhere in the game! Want to live on the Azim Steppe or Thavnair? Those areas will probably never see a residential district, but they could be used as a backdrop for instanced housing!

Bottom line is, we all pay to play. We should all have the same access to content, that isn’t subject to a random lotto. They need to decide if they’re going to invest in a solution - one way or the other - to the problem or not. If they don’t, well maybe you can get a house in another 10 years when they finish the next story arc and put the game in maintenance mode. lol

[Oizen]

Tell that to Dyna who can't even develop a culture since DC travel became a thing.

I mean the other 2 DCs are honestly just bleeding it. And Crystal's "cluture" is basically just a containment zone for people who dont know that 2nd life exists.

[DamianFatale]

Ok and? Small worlds can have a culture too. Maybe look at the actual numbers of characters on your world. Before Dynamis your world was the NA server with the lowest population at around 300k characters. Actually if anything having less people makes having a culture easier. And you're also a legacy world so...probably have more people around who were grandfathered into the whole being allowed to own more than one private plot.

That isn't actually true though. We have always been the most popular. Typical Balmung visitors not knowing anything, and assuming our culture for us.

[Supersnow845]

That isn't actually true though. We have always been the most popular. Typical Balmung visitors not knowing anything, and assuming our culture for us.

Balmung has always been bloated by visitors and has always had its own culture but the other guy is right

https://ffxivcensus.com/

As of the last census balmung has the smallest population of native characters of the NA servers because it’s spent more of its life locked than unlocked

[AmiRose]

Idk about other servers, but on Phoenix there have been many plots available as of late. So much so that some of them don't get purchased even though they have been available for weeks.