YoshyP response to Blizzard Housing..

[Aidorouge]

I suppose it might help free up an extra plot or two from those who missed the announcement or don't care enough to resub just to keep theirs, but I imagine the majority of houses will stay firmly in the grasp of those who bought them already, and you'll still be seeing 100s of people bidding on houses in Aether/Primal/Crystal.

Ironically, this will probably do more to free up houses on Dynamis because there's probably a larger amount of players there who don't give a damn anymore and would see losing their house as an excuse to finally pay transfer their main/delete their alt.

[Miguel85NYC]

too bad that wow is a garbage game

It's actually not.. its doing a lot better now.

[Amarande]

I suppose it might help free up an extra plot or two from those who missed the announcement or don't care enough to resub just to keep theirs, but I imagine the majority of houses will stay firmly in the grasp of those who bought them already, and you'll still be seeing 100s of people bidding on houses in Aether/Primal/Crystal.

I'm hoping it at least puts all those "I hate Dawntrail" folks' feet to the fire, since for most of this expansion they've rather blatantly gotten to have their cake and eat it too at the expense of the rest of the players (who would love to buy a house, but instead people actively choosing not to play the xpac get to hang onto them scot free).

Now they will have to decide if they actually value their house that much to pay a sub or let them go.

Also we're going into the mid-expansion phase which is when you get the biggest activity lull which the demolition timer is designed to cater to by freeing up the houses of inactive players.

... There'll probably still be a bajillion bids on houses in Aether/Primal/Crystal, though.

It's actually not.. its doing a lot better now.

This is spot on meanwhile ... WoW has been making leaps and bounds to improve many of its weak points.

At this point, in stark contrast to XIV's desperate thrashing when it comes to cross server play, WoW home realm barely even matters anymore for instance, with the auction house and even guilds being cross-server, and having had seamless cross server partying - well, apart from ping shock if you suddenly find yourself shifted to an Oceanic shard anyways, lol - for years now.

Raids are far less foreboding outside of perhaps the Mythic level, too. Cat herding is cat herding, of course, but at least content is actually tuned so that you can afford to have a group that's built on the basis of "I like playing games with you" rather than having to strictly build off of performance metrics (most of them measured in ways that SE tells you not to do, at that) to have a hope of getting through the raid in one piece, or will become so in a reasonable period of time through gear.

... which is also done in a far smoother way in WoW, vs. XIV especially in the even patches, where if you hit a brick wall in Savage the ability to gear to compensate is kneecapped until the odd patch (as all gearing methods outside of EX mainhands and weekly tomes depend solely on Savage clears). With M6S's travails this tier, this situation is made especially stark.

I'll put it this way. I love Eitherys. I've always thought the storyline was great. Even Dawntrail. Heck I even liked the old ARR Titan arc silliness. I love the Hunt. I love that SE tends to be a lot better at releasing patches with a minimum of technical problems (by comparison, bugs are still an Achilles' heel for WoW).

But eventually you hit endgame, and you don't roll as many (or any, often) alts in this game as you do in WoW, you're on your endgame character a lot more often. And XIV just has not been that great for players at that stage lately. You can't get a house, unless you're on a dead DC. Raiding has been a train wreck for a while unless you're lucky enough to have a static. That mainly leaves the Hunt, RP Venues, and whatever old bits and bobs you haven't dried up yet.

And except for RP habitues, I'm having trouble thinking it's worth paying a sub anymore. I did buy my crysta for the upcoming month to see if Occult Crescent is fun but if not ...

(And as a last jab. At least I can fully articulate my thoughts without having to go back and EDIT THE POST half the time on WoW's forums. Here "PLEASE SHORTEN IT TO 3000 CHARACTERS LONG" is obnoxious. For Twelve's sake. Even Discord gives you more characters in a post ... LOL)

[Wyssahtyn]

if you edit your post after you post, you can make longer posts over the character limit, iirc.

[CidHeiral]

"The automatic housing demolition timer for Worlds in the North American Data Center, which was halted temporarily in January 2025, will resume on Friday, June 6, 2025 at 1:00 a.m. (PDT)"



ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? With the amazing feedback we're wearing about World of warcraft housing and that was your Response???

How Blind can you be...

That's not how dev pipelines work. I'm sure the FFXIV dev team is watching WoW housing very closely but should they choose to adopt any features they like from the competition that would take months/years to plan and develop. Not to mention WoW housing isn't even out yet.

[Reimmi]

too bad that wow is a garbage game

It was. dragonflight-war within have helped immensely
Square really needs to step up

[Exmo]

- believes Blizzard's marketing.
- MMO wars.
- associating development decisions to a single person's whims.
- interpreting events that aren't even correlative as causative.
- bad faith whining.

[Gwenkatsu]

- believes Blizzard's marketing.
- MMO wars.
- associating development decisions to a single person's whims.
- interpreting events that aren't even correlative as causative.
- bad faith whining.

So to summarize your summary:

/imagine "That's bait" gif here/

[Arrius]

It's actually not.. its doing a lot better now.

Still making a lot of mistakes and overselling they content they do while its being buggy as hell, seeing that their QA has been noticeably thinned.
Even had to have Ion step in and give out his usual corpo talk because the players gotten too upset about the bugged patches and excessive timegating.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I just want to see some of the improvements and innovations that other MMOs have in their housing brought to this game. I have no interest in WoW, and while I love ESO’s housing for its sheer variety, it’s not for me. I love this game, I want to have all that good stuff here!

If anything, I’m hoping this pushes them to finally give us a Z axis for furniture placement, and apply the new dual dye system to furnishings. Ultimately I’d like to see them add instanced options for housing to supplement the limited supply of the housing wards, but just those two things would make me a lot happier. They’re moving in a good direction with interior layout changes, which I hope will bring a lot more variety in the future, and the “Tardis housing” idea they say they’re looking into. But as they’re going about refreshing things for their next 10 years, housing should be at the top of the list. (Along with glamour, but that’s a whole other thread! lol)