Housing for All

[ShadowyZero]

since our goodly cooperate masters are willing to offer an ear as of late this is now the perfect chance for me to yell loudly into the microphone.

enough is ENOUGH Square Enix! everyone deserves a house an plot of land stop abusing your playerbase an stop feeding the addicts retire the ward system its done its over other games are advancing YOU have no excuses left to say to that an they are mocking your design for housing in particular.

you learned a valuable lesson from island sanctuary as a structure now take what you have learned from that an take what you have from the apartment system which out fills new space after caps are reached and ADD a single/solo player instance housing system this will cut back on your costs an your storage spaces if everyone owns a house the problem will be resolved an you'll never have to hear about it again nor keep pouring resources into it outside the occasional new furnishings an house skins.
you have nothing to lose an everything to gain from such a new system.

let players have their own little space to customize as they see fit with any house size they want it to be you'll eliminate two birds with one stone there will be no more gripes or moaning at how bad your system is and there will be no shortages of supply and you can shut off inactive instances to preserve optimal performance. no one loses everyone wins done and dusted now lets see you get this done once and for all.

[SquidzureDragoon]

Instanced housing would be great. We can start off with a small, and spend gil to upgrade it inside and out to a medium and then to a large, too! And then no one has to worry about the auto demo timer and the current housing places could be used for free companies only if need be. I will happily let my medium lot get dismantled in an overhaul of the housing system so long as I get my furniture back and everybody gets their own house. I wouldn't even care if I don't get the gil I spent into getting the plot of land back!

The current housing system is a nightmare and just isn't fun.

[Burmecia]

for years i've hoped to see apartment update, where you could choose s/m/l interior from the normal houses for your apartment -- in addition to the xs fc room size currently only available.
should siphon at least some money out of economy...

[ShadowyZero]

for years i've hoped to see apartment update, where you could choose s/m/l interior from the normal houses for your apartment -- in addition to the xs fc room size currently only available.
should siphon at least some money out of economy...

yeah they should redo apartments too make them a more viable alternative if people don't want a neighborhood or house etc. in another thread i proposed the idea of making apartments like the equivalent of a penthouse style apartment with an outdoor balcony so that people can place some outdoor furnishings on the patio deck with in reason of course obviously item size restrictions would be in place to prevent clipping or instance crashing etc. but i think people would be content with that having both an indoor suite and an outdoor sitting/afking spot for their apartment

[iMaximusRex]

Wards aren't the problem; a limited number of wards is. WoW and LOTRO both have ward like systems and neither have a housing shortage because they open more up as needed to meet demand. I would rather have neighbors who designs I can enjoy then an instance I am all alone in. It would be extra cool if a FC could claim a ward like in WoW, so my friends could be my neighbors.

I would be cool with them redesigning the wards to have same sized plots so players can put any size house they want on it.

They should also allow Apartment to change the interiors like they are going to do for houses.

[NightHour]

While Instanced Housing would be fantastic, do we seriously think SE has the infrastructure to support it?


The budget XIV gets is on the smaller scale for MMO's.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Wards aren't the problem; a limited number of wards is. WoW and LOTRO both have ward like systems and neither have a housing shortage because they open more up as needed to meet demand. I would rather have neighbors who designs I can enjoy then an instance I am all alone in. It would be extra cool if a FC could claim a ward like in WoW, so my friends could be my neighbors.

Afaik though, WoW’s wards are instanced and not permanently loaded like ours are in XIV. So that’s likely why they’re able to just spin up new neighborhoods on demand, whereas we have to worry about server drain.

I really like WoW’s take on the neighborhood idea though. Being able to create them with friends or FCs would be so nice, and the activities sound fun. Here, you’re lucky to win a house at all, let alone live near anyone you actually know or play with. Our wards are pretty much ghost towns, either because no one is spending any time there, or you’re not in the same time zone as your neighbors, etc.

[Solowing]

Afaik though, WoW’s wards are instanced and not permanently loaded like ours are in XIV. So that’s likely why they’re able to just spin up new neighborhoods on demand, whereas we have to worry about server drain.

I really like WoW’s take on the neighborhood idea though. Being able to create them with friends or FCs would be so nice, and the activities sound fun. Here, you’re lucky to win a house at all, let alone live near anyone you actually know or play with. Our wards are pretty much ghost towns, either because no one is spending any time there, or you’re not in the same time zone as your neighbors, etc.

What are neighborhoods going to fundamentally change If the player base themselves don't want to be out in a isolated instance.

wards are empty because the aggregate player base does not find housing that high on the priority list.

Why is the wards empty, is my question?

Why do players not want to spend time in the ward system?

How would a neighborhood system change this when players already don't like isolation? Players spend the majority of their time in the hubs. How will the neighborhood system change that priority from the hub space to the neighborhood? Because realistically I don't think it's going to change anything. The players are still going to prefer the social mixing pot of the hubs over isolated neighbourhoods any day of the week

[sosospooky]

At a baseline, just allowing apartments to be resized internally when they add that to housing, and hopefully figuring out indoor gardening for real so they can actually update that feature again, would be nice.

[MicahZerrshia]

Wards as they are now, are just completely pointless. I have had an FC and personal house since they were established and I have had a total of 1 positive interaction with another player. If they want to keep the wards they need to take a note from WoW and give us ward based activities that require cooperation and give us meaningful rewards for completing them. As it stands now there is zero reason to keep this rushed and poorly designed system in place. Just because Yoshi PR likes wards, doesn't mean they are good for the game or even liked by the player basen and it's about time he realizes that and takes the L so players can have what they actually want. They don't even need to get rid of wards, just give us instanced housing as an option. I would move to an instanced ward in a heartbeat.