Nice to return

[MayuAmakura]

e.g., "top 3 rarest...", do you know how cool that would be?

I agree with all of this. The only rare achievement I can think of now are those pvp achievements that require for you to be in top spot of Crystaline Conflict. But honestly those ones are mega boring with all wintrading happening and same people somehow managing to be top rank in all servers by a mile or play 24/7. Plus CC is well known to be dead and you play with 10-20 same people over and over again which is not fun.

Other than that, it's pretty boring to do anything.

[MayuAmakura]

It did not when it was added. Like I said, players had to request the demolition timer to be added because the ward system could not support everyone having a house, and YoshiP was adamant he wanted housing to be in neighborhoods. He also said personal housing would be separate from the FC neighborhood system, but they ended up adding it to the existing wards.


I assume their original plan went like this: You can buy a house for gil, the house is yours forever unless you choose to move or get rid of it yourself, and it would be separated from the FC neighborhoods, most likely in the same vein apartments are kinda their own thing or straight up a different neighborhood somewhere else in Eorzea. If they would have been able to follow through with that plan, then yeah housing would have not required a monthly fee (besides the sub you need to pay to simply exist in Eorzea, but that is besides the point) and it would be there forever, like apartments are currently.


The reality is that things never were as YoshiP said he wanted them to be back then. I'm not blaming the players that had to ask for the demolition timer obviously, it was the least stupid solution to a poorly-designed system that players could have suggested, but I wish they could invest more into housing to fix these kinds of things for everyone. I find it stupid that you can't have a house unless you're insanely lucky or you happen to be in a server that isn't packed like a sardine can.

The sad reality is that this game is built massively on the "greatest sins of mmorpg" and ffxiv fits into every one of them. Housing is just one example. It's gatekept around players who got in first and good luck getting one if you are on a tight servers. Even those that were empty, now are full because of bots.

So issues with housing are too many Bot FC's or people who have ridiculous amount of accounts so they purchased all housing district or FC houses. They use this to make good amount of gil and do RMT. This is the biggest damn issue today. Why square isn't doing anything against this?

Some servers are clearly empty and you can find a house there, but as soon as some ward opens it's tough luck to get large / mediums. So many RMT people will instantly bid and FC's with 50+ members. So Large and mediums will be occupied in no time. Meaning that any legitimate player can just dream about having a large house or even medium. Heck on some servers it's dreaming about having even small one.

They talked about increasing interior space but that idea went to silence as they haven't mentioned anything. It's more of: ''please look forward to it''. Housing in this game has to be the worst out of any mmorpg.

[Trianna]

People been asking for instanced housing for years now, nothing is done about it.
They had the perfect setup with Sanctuary Island to make instance housing, but instead gave us a bunch of grind with nothing to look out for. Stocks overflowing with materials, completely useless.

And to make everything worse, you have the Devs coming up and saying Occult Crescent can't have 2 Fates or CEs up at the same time cuz "servers are already on limit". I'm sorry, what? That zone even has half the amount of maximum players as Eureka and Bozja. So what kind of servers are SE running for new content?

[Trillium]

FFXIV needs to do something. A year ago (2024) I came to Dynamis and was able to get a home in Ward 16 of Shirogani. There has been plenty of lots left until this month (July 2025). All the lots are suddenly being filled by people whose names are hyphenated by letters and numbers (example 1-TnG4). My fellow player explained that these are Gold Bots. Accounts are made for these false-characters so they can sell gold in the forums. The player explained to me that because they are "real accounts," Square Enix just looks the other way. So, in my opinion, this is one of the reasons that there is a huge housing shortage.