How do you feel about incoming housing updates?

[Shistar]

Fair enough! To me, an alt is always useful, so I didn't consider that. Hope you get your house soon!

[Themarvin]

Betrayed.... nothing has happened since wildly boasted about much higher item limits and more coming to houses since before 7.0....

We are not at 7.3

[Batbrat]

Whenever I see this thread now, the instant response in my head is "What incoming housing updates????"
Like tbh I just flat out don't believe anything they say anymore. I don't believe it's coming in 7.4, I don't believe it's coming in 8.0-he's just going to lick his wounds over WoW totalling his career, and keep pushing back doing anything new because he's too scared and everythings too hard. Wah wah, need more time. Too hard. Doing anything for xiv too hard. Please understand, too hard. btw here's 10 other games!!! All with state of the art top of the line-but xiv too hard. Wah wah. Please keep sub, but play other games for now. Its taking a long time, ok let's have more Primal concerts!! Uhmm lets not talk about Fanfest yet ok...devs are working on it, please understand and wait. Let's demonstrate step by step how to water plants in a xiv garden. Best hour of your life.

I WAS excited for these changes!! WAS!!! Oh I was through the ROOF-but now idk man.
I feel like it's never coming, that's how I feel. I feel like he never should have said any of it. Not until it was already ready.

[Llamalass]

Whenever I see this thread now, the instant response in my head is "What incoming housing updates????"

Yeah, that's me.

We'll get more Mog Shop bullshit glamour options before we get a worthwhile addition/update to the game.

[Casura]

You just sound like a large house gatekeeper at this point

[Bubert]

All I want is more furniture slots and to rotate, resize furniture however we want just like in wow housing. Currently if you want a cute house you either have to hire someone for gil or spend hours upon hours just to glitch something the way you want it.

[Sunhwapark]

Yeah I wish we had more housing slots honestly for every house size.
I would like to decorate again but the effort is a bit much so I do not mind paying someone to do that for me, but it does seem to be a headache with these very basic placement controls with tough restrictions that designers have to fight over to create more interesting designs.

[Batbrat]

I am once again here to address the elephants in the room.

The last House skin released: Country Walls
Release Date: 06/27/2024 「 1 year, 7 months ago 」
Previous Minimum Average: 1 Exterior per year
2015 (4), 2016, 2017 (2), 2018 (2), 2019, 2020 (3), 2022 (2), 2023, 2024

The last addition of new Housing Wards: 5 Wards
Release date: 12/26/2022 「 3 years, 1 month ago 」
Previous Minimum Average: 1 Ward patch per year
2013, 2014 (3 times), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022

The last Housing Residential District released: Ishgard
Finished/Release date: 01/19/2021 「 5 years ago 」
Previous Minimum Average: 1 District per 4 years
2013 (3), 2017, 2021

We are behind in Wards, Exteriors, and Residential District.
We are also behind on Mirage and Housing Item Cap Increase updates.
Everything housing related has been delayed, or late for years.
The only successful housing release was the Interior Wall Option change, which did not allow us to move windows, nor remove columns (although it did offer a skin without columns, that was unfortunately entirely flashbang white)
There have been no Orchestrion updates either (playlists, nor longer song list)
That's all!

[Reginald_Cain]

Taking way too long to come out with updates promised over a year ago.

We never even got the increase in slots I was expecting in 7.1.

My downstairs bathroom remains unfinished!

[Kytrin]

My downstairs bathroom remains unfinished!

Oh don't get me started on that. I was so convinced that we were getting item increases back in 7.1 or 7.2 that I went wild with my architectural designs figuring I'd have PLENTY of slots later to fill in the furnishings. NOPE! My house remained half-finished for over a year before I finally got aggravated with it and disassembled half of what I'd created so I could flesh out some of my rooms more. And I STILL have more than one unfinished space!

I understand they've had optimization issues and Server-kun will get angry if there's too much, but be for real guys... if it's THAT much of an issue then UPGRADE THE HARDWARE! I know, I KNOW, it's not that simple, but if the stated reason for the delay is the hardware is wheezing, then get hardware that won't wheeze over the increased load! Then repurpose the current servers into something useful like separating workshops from housing so the gil sellers get out of the housing wards.