It's time for instanced housing SE. please read <3

[Khryseis_Astra]

You're not entirely wrong, but you're also discounting the fact that many people have put down roots on a particular server. They have an FC and friends there that they love, they have a static, they're immersed in the local RP, etc. Yes, technically, they can buy a house on another server and travel back, but it there are limitations to it (can't stay in their FC, can't access retainers, etc.) that make it more of a hassle to move. And for many what's the point of having a house if you have to server/datatcenter jump just to go back to it or invite people over?

Some people just don't want to start over on a new server, and that's not wrong. Neither is it wrong for them to want access to housing on the server they're on and not deal with FC bots buying all the available space while they were busy saving their gil to buy a house in the first place.

Not to mention there’s regular threads over in General Discussion about how dead some of the Dynamis servers are, the most recent of which asking for the Dynamis worlds to be merged into other NA DCs. I still think it was a big mistake to release all those worlds without funneling all new characters into them to populate them. And it created a whole DC where the bulk of characters are alts created solely to get a house, thus the low activity.

Point being, their only “solution” to the housing scarcity was so unpalatable that even the ones who did transfer who a house are now regretting it. The time and effort would be better spent adding an instanced housing system that can scale with need and doesn’t use as many server resources as the wards do.

[Omega_Enthusiast]

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com.../news/24186690

they need to match or beat this

[Rinoa_353]

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com.../news/24186690

they need to match or beat this

SE is in serious danger of losing many players with these features for WoW housing since every player would have their own home. They need to add instanced housing along with those features in that article.

[Yuniko]

SE is in serious danger of losing many players with these features for WoW housing since every player would have their own home. They need to add instanced housing along with those features in that article.

Yep... this is what i predicted.. that SE is in danger territory.

[Themarvin]

Housing is instanced the wards is an instance as well

If you want the full experience you should make FFXIV go towards Star Wars Galaxies city building and owning homes, if anything.

[Divinemights]

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/arti...ook-at-housing

WoW housing
FF14 response should be like this:

"ok we will do instanced housing"

A new structure -> The Great Company.
2 variations, FC and Personal.
a fc or person creates it. and other FC or persons join.
Once enough join then the leader is able to create a neighbourhood. everyone who's FC or peronsonal char is in it can either move their house permanently into the neighborhood system, or buy a house in that neighbourhood instantly.

if someone (or a FC) is kicked out of a neighbourhood they retain their house in some limbo state and then can join or make a new one

I stop paying attention to WoW after I quit at Shadowland expansion (different than those professional haters in general forum who crapping on game but still here after 1 year; i just packed and leave)
Isn't Blizzard also good and bring out concept that raise hype, gives half-baked stuff when introduced (garrison, farm), then abandon it after one expansion?
Did something changed?

[Jojoya]

Isn't Blizzard also good and bring out concept that raise hype, gives half-baked stuff when introduced (garrison, farm), then abandon it after one expansion?

Yes

Did something changed?

Yes and no.

They're paying more attention to player feedback on what should be kept and what isn't working. They brought back the old talent trees in a more modern versions - definite improvement over you get 6 rows of talents and get to only have one of the three in each row. The delves added in the current expansion are pretty fun, at least to me. I'd describe them as M+ lite dungeons with one boss, no time pressure and 11 difficulty levels that can be played solo or with friends.

But content is still a buggy mess at release and as usual most is intended to only be relevant this expansion.

They are promising the housing will be evergreen with ongoing updates to add new decorations (likely since they can reuse assets already made for other content) and housing locations (I'll believe that only once it happens).

[Divinemights]

Right….Bliazzard promising…..from lvl 70 to lvl 120, since when their “promising” ever matter？

[Jojoya]

Right….Bliazzard promising…..from lvl 70 to lvl 120, since when their “promising” ever matter？

Same as the promises of any game company - they only matter as far as attracting new players and getting existing/old players to come back. Once they have players hooked, the promises get demoted into ideas that turned out not to be feasible once development started.

For some it may be nice to think that this is going to put pressure on SE to improve FFXIV housing but it doesn't. Players would genuinely have to quit FFXIV and move to WoW for it to create pressure and very few are willing to do that.

[Yeol]

I wonder how many players will lose interest in housing once they take away wards and make instanced housing available for everyone.