FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Little_Giant]

Check housing today on EU, so many plots demolished. Auto demolish is back.

[Carin-Eri]

Check housing today on EU, so many plots demolished. Auto demolish is back.

Although some reports of a glitch, it seems as if it is mostly auto-demolish.

Its pretty worrying to be honest though - solid numbers pointing to players who quit.

[Daralii]

Although some reports of a glitch, it seems as if it is mostly auto-demolish.

Its pretty worrying to be honest though - solid numbers pointing to players who quit.

What do you mean about a thousand plots opened up on every server across two datacenters? We all know that no one actually quits this game and it's just the forums being hysterical.

[IttyBittyShark]

you know it is bad when people are letting that many houses go.

[Striker44]

Although some reports of a glitch, it seems as if it is mostly auto-demolish.

Its pretty worrying to be honest though - solid numbers pointing to players who quit.

Personally, I'd recommend checking in a couple weeks. Houses that got auto-demolished point to people with houses who have cycled out, but not people without houses who have cycled back in (and couldn't get a house b/c the plots were full). Auto-demo has been paused for a long time. If those houses don't get re-filled, then it means something to me. If they simply get swept right back up, all it was really "evidence" of is how long auto-demo was turned off; many of the people may have moved on a long time ago.

[CCheshire]

you know it is bad when people are letting that many houses go.

Are you sure, really? I mean, if the owners found a new game or lost interest in FFXIV, it's nice that everyone who wanted a house can buy them now on EU.

They had like 3k open plots in Aether a few months ago, which is huge since we rarely get added new housing wards.

[Supersnow845]

Are you sure, really? I mean, if the owners found a new game or lost interest in FFXIV, it's nice that everyone who wanted a house can buy them now on EU.

They had like 3k open plots in Aether a few months ago, which is huge since we rarely get added new housing wards.

“It’s a good thing that the games population is collapsing because there is more of the pointlessly limited stuff that never should have been limited for the dregs who remain”

14 players will literally justify anything

[All_Nonsense]

Are you sure, really? I mean, if the owners found a new game or lost interest in FFXIV, it's nice that everyone who wanted a house can buy them now on EU

And then people will say that the bubonic plague was good because it created a labor scarcity and workers were able to leverage it to their advantage and ignore that most of the people from Europe into Asia died. There's like 3 houses available in the entire game or whatever. Of course *someone's* gonna take one of them. By your metric, the game could have 6k active players per data center and it be a good thing since everyone gets a house.

On the bright side, a lot of houses are opening up for folks. But it's not a good indicator by any means. It's actually kind of alarming

[Batbrat]

You know, I actually used to think Square was insane.
A while ago I charted out in the Housing section of this forum how every year or so consistently, we'd get new wards + new housing region, and I was saying over there like, "Man, you guys. Why has it been three whole years without any new wards or housing regions added? Not a single one, not ONE new ward in literal years-what is going on that we're not getting anything housing related anymore, not even house skins?"

I wasnt thinking big enough. It's not about..adding new wards. That's rookie thinking, small brained.
The REAL move is to make the game SO boring and bad that everyone quits, and then just like that you don't have to spend a dime because all the housing wards are open again-great job, I'm put in my place, never would have thought of it like that!!

[IttyBittyShark]

You know, I actually used to think Square was insane.
A while ago I charted out in the Housing section of this forum how every year or so consistently, we'd get new wards + new housing region, and I was saying over there like, "Man, you guys. Why has it been three whole years without any new wards or housing regions added? Not a single one, not ONE new ward in literal years-what is going on that we're not getting anything housing related anymore, not even house skins?"

I wasnt thinking big enough. It's not about..adding new wards. That's rookie thinking, small brained.
The REAL move is to make the game SO boring and bad that everyone quits, and then just like that you don't have to spend a dime because all the housing wards are open again-great job, I'm put in my place, never would have thought of it like that!!

i was actually thinking about whenever the game invariably enters its maintenance mode, how empty the wards would be. whether that be 5 or 10 years from now. it would just be really interesting to see something like a large untouched for months or years just because people don't play anymore.