Blizzard adds popular housing addon as core feature of their new housing system

[DBriggs304]

Wow is eating FF for lunch now.

[CVXIV]

SE Dev looking at the FFXIV Code trying to implement a new feature:

I've been learning how to program and I will admit seeing the talks about ff14's code has made me morbidly curious to see just how bad it is

[CVXIV]

Wow is eating FF for lunch now.

Honestly good
I've never once played WoW, but competition is a healthy thing and it's good to see Blizzard taking jabs at SE
I hope that it causes them to look at the housing system and give it more work and implement the things Blizzard has managed to do
It's not good for one to become complacent, and I'm saying this as FFXIV is one of my favorite MMOs that I've played

[Hallarem]

Wow is eating FF for lunch now.

WoW has always eaten FFXIV's gameplay for lunch in terms of what an MMO is supposed to be

[Khryseis_Astra]

Honestly good
I've never once played WoW, but competition is a healthy thing and it's good to see Blizzard taking jabs at SE
I hope that it causes them to look at the housing system and give it more work and implement the things Blizzard has managed to do
It's not good for one to become complacent, and I'm saying this as FFXIV is one of my favorite MMOs that I've played

Same. This is my favorite game and the game world I love most. I want to see better features that other games have done (or are planning) put into Eorzea.

The effortless floating of furnishings is long overdue (seriously SE, I should be able to put whatever I want on a loft!), but the ability to rotate on any axis, have multiple dye channels on furnishings, as well as the ability to move things as a group would be major QoL additions.

[DBriggs304]

WoW has always eaten FFXIV's gameplay for lunch in terms of what an MMO is supposed to be

I would have to agree gameplay wise. If FF gameplay had the fluidity and quickness of WoW's engine, it would be a beast. The world would need to be larger as well with less invisible walls as no one really rivals wow's world building ability.

As much as I love FF, this last year has been hard to take it seriously as an mmo anymore.

[CVXIV]

Same. This is my favorite game and the game world I love most. I want to see better features that other games have done (or are planning) put into Eorzea.

The effortless floating of furnishings is long overdue (seriously SE, I should be able to put whatever I want on a loft!), but the ability to rotate on any axis, have multiple dye channels on furnishings, as well as the ability to move things as a group would be major QoL additions.

As things stand we can't even use any metallic colors on furnishings, let alone having multiple dye channels for them but I agree with everything you've said - those would be major QoL improvements to their system

I will give them some credit because from what I recall they intend on implementing a feature where you can change the interior size of your house
So a small house exterior could have a medium or large interior
but the reason it isn't full credit is because it hasn't been implemented yet
Maybe they'll speak on it in the upcoming liveletter, and it'd be nice if they were to address this and mention a rework to the housing system
but I doubt that'll happen

It would also be nice if they were able to get everyone a house should they want one
I wonder how Blizzard is going to implement it

[Espon]

I've been learning how to program and I will admit seeing the talks about ff14's code has made me morbidly curious to see just how bad it is

It's not as bad as people make it out to be. People just use it as an excuse for why SE doesn't do or improve things, instead of going with the more obvious reasons: They just don't want to or don't feel it's worth putting in the time and money to develop or fix things.

Considering third-party plugins can allow you to do things like freely float furniture and clip it out of bounds, there really is no reason why SE couldn't implement these features themselves, other than the reasons I gave above.

As much as I'm hoping WoW's housing gives SE an incentive to improve things, I'm not going to get my hopes up. It's already taking them forever to bump up the item limit, something they announced back in EW, and who knows when the interior size feature is being implemented.

[Hallarem]

I would have to agree gameplay wise. If FF gameplay had the fluidity and quickness of WoW's engine, it would be a beast. The world would need to be larger as well with less invisible walls as no one really rivals wow's world building ability.

As much as I love FF, this last year has been hard to take it seriously as an mmo anymore.

With how many systems they have been implementing for soloplay over the past few expansions, this game wont be an MMO soon anymore. You won't need a party for any content

[CVXIV]

It's not as bad as people make it out to be. People just use it as an excuse for why SE doesn't do or improve things, instead of going with the more obvious reasons: They just don't want to or don't feel it's worth putting in the time and money to develop or fix things.

Considering third-party plugins can allow you to do things like freely float furniture and clip it out of bounds, there really is no reason why SE couldn't implement these features themselves, other than the reasons I gave above.

As much as I'm hoping WoW's housing gives SE an incentive to improve things, I'm not going to get my hopes up. It's already taking them forever to bump up the item limit, something they announced back in EW, and who knows when the interior size feature is being implemented.

Yeah that's true
As much as I'd like for this to make SE take action, I don't see it happening any time soon with their track record