Yesterday I made a video talking about the problems with obtaining a house in FFXIV. Today I talk about some potential solutions we MIGHT actually see that may actually be realistic going forward! Let’s talk!
This system needs to change. Housing acquisition needs to change. We can’t continue this cycle of bidding people getting their feelings hurt and rightfully so! Bro! If you want to play housing in a video game, a virtual world, a fake world with fake pixels and you’re told you can’t even do that here no kidding people are going to feel upset about it! The scarcity and rarity of housing needs to end.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Solving the FFXIV Housing Crisis
0:35 Island Sanctuary WHAT WE KNOW WILL HAPPEN IN 6.4!
2:10 Housing in Island Sanctuary Patch 6.5
4:00 UPGRADING the Island Sanctuary house!
6:15 Monthly Subscription to help server costs
9:15 Final Thoughts and Conclusions
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This cycle of broken hearts needs to end! I actually think that some of these solutions might ACTUALLY solve the housing crisis in FFXIV!
Adding housing to Island Sanctuary would solve the housing debacle 100%. Hell, I'd prefer my house to be on my island rather than having other random houses surrounding it in a ward.
I want instanced housing on our Island Sanctuary! I hate Island Sanctuary & stopped at level 8! I would go back to the Island Sanctuary if we could do this! I want to be able to craft my house & housing furniture! I want to be able to rest & log out like you can at the inns! I hate the housing plots! They can turn all those into official guild houses only!!!
I don't want instance housing mainly because it will isolate all players to there own bubble and the game will feel dead in all cities, pretend you a new player now, you load into Limsa, you walk and can feel massive crows talking/ echos of conversions taking place, makes the game fee alive. removed that and you have a ghost town.
https://youtu.be/FDs_4WH5ocE?t=6566
Forget that is Asmon if you don't like him, but I think his point stands, maybe if they do NOT allow marketboard/Retainers on it. (But lets be real, if they allow housing the entire player base will be begging for retainer/marketboard access, they don't see the picture of isolating the playerbase)
I think the Island Sanctuary will be the solution for the housing issue.
I'd like to have housing on the Island. Even if it costs gil (Legit gil sink) to unlock different sizes of houses and areas of the island. You pay like 40-50 mil for large plot – how about that same amount will fully unlock island.
Instanced housing no fun.
Keep the current format of wards.
Make new pay only housing area on Mare.
$3 a month for L, $1 for M.
Only large and medium house.
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profit.
Personally, I have a lot of house chores irl.
Playing house in a video game is the last thing I want.
Only recommended for interior designer enthusiasts, etc.
Just imagine if the coming big event of change leading to 7.0, similar to a Calamity, really ends up being the new big bad blowing up all the Private Housing Plots, forcing Adventurers to settle on their Islands instead.
We then spend 7.0 running after them to thank them
Instanced housing will kill the cities and community there for new players, hopefully this stupid shit suggested by people never happens
I would love to see a housing district near Crystarium and Ole Sharlyan. One that is like a dock with houseboats and another that is like futuristic. With the same amount of plots as the current district's.
Add a market board and maybe a retainer to sell you tomestone weapons for the house and a glamour dresser for the island and that would be awesome
If they add housing to island sanctuary, I guarantee it would grab majority of the playerbase attention and time from casual to hardcore players.
I have a house and own a mansion for my FC. I like island the way it is. I would just like more custom appearances for the granary and stuff. Like Imagine a Halloween them granary. Or island exclusive housing items that can't be placed in a normal home just your island. I say make it even more animal crossing and do the random character generator for squadron's and give us villagers that visit our island to earn coins.
I got my large with old system and now I relocated into another large. I don't see any problem with the housing.
Yeah… if you could put housing items on your island and even got a mansion plot for it, people would go nuts and it would be a MAD rush to level it. lol
Another way could be allowing players to upgrade the apartments to have maybe some sort of faux outdoor space and/or more space akin to a small/medium plots maybe. There has been an ongoing issue of event rewards being furnishing and while you can store/use the indoor ones rather easily if you have an apartment/fc room, things like the Summer Bonfire will be useless to most people who don't own a plot sadly.
I love the Island Sanctuary idea, a problem other than the obvious server load tho is that we can't TP directly into our island yet so it'll be. . .more server load i suppose-? cuz Lower La Noscea will be flooded with people who's kicked from their islands from afking xD
I think the worse part is players owning multiple fc house’s just because of the sub/airship
Apartments should be the size of the bottom floor of a small, there should be a community garden AKA instance garden plot, and apartments should have a balcony
Oh and we should be able to buy a building permit from ANY of the available base models, imagine having the Lavender Beds beams, and staircase in the mist for instance (although we should get rid of beams all together (we have iron and steel in FF so we don't need game immersion beams)
How about if you have a Teir 3 Island and you are a FC leader. Why not allow leaders move their FC house to the island. Same concept as the islands but have it where you can upgrade your FC house on the island like you would with buildings and then extend the Ranking system for FCs to 50 and allow additional plots to open up for members to buy like a room in the house. Wouldn't that fix the FC issue?
I love the idea of building a little space on the island to serve as a sort of discount player housing area, but I wouldn't want it to be integrated into the current system. The Island Sanctuary was billed as stand-alone content, and I think it is important to preserve that. What I would propose, and what I'd love to see, would be the ability to build what would be the equivalent of a small player home on the island with a first and second floor on top rather than a basement below since digging that out would be quite the chore for us or our mammets. It should have the same space available as a small home, but this little difference would just help give it its own little identity. From there, I would not want the current housing items to be used there. Nothing on our island should be costing us gil or require the leveling of DoH or DoL jobs. The beauty of the sanctuary is that it is all apart from these things and, as I said, I would like to see that preserved. That said, I'd love to see a ton of furniture crafts suddenly populating my island crafting log. Island Woodworks, Island Stoneworks, and Island Metalworks patters would give us three looks for the exterior of our home, similar to the standard system, and would contain matching interior designs and decorations to match the exteriors. I would be all-in on a little island cottage as a capstone for Endwalker's Island sanctuary experience, but I don't want any of it to come from my gil pockets. It should all be gathered on the island itself. Then, moving into the next expansion, when (not if) players love setting up their own little log cabin or stone cottage on their private island, the dev team can look to making increasing the size of that cottage next expansion's island content. Just my two gil.
Instanced housing will KILL the social aspect of this game mark my words. It'll end up being filled with ghost town cities like almost all the other mmos on the market.
I feel like a mansion is very excessive and off brand for island sanctuary? (Unless you consider it a private island where you hide your money in like Oprah). However, if we’re going for the lv 20 housing concept, we should be able to build our own small-med cabin home so it fits the whole cozy island sanctuary narrative.
I feel like being able to build a house on island sanctuary would be amazing. What i dislike about the current housing (other than the obvious issues) is that the yards are so small. Even on the large. It feels like you hardly have any space to work with to make a cool yard. I feel like that wouldn't be an issue in IS. They could either give us a housing site or the house would be build where you can build landmarks and itd just feel so much more open esp since theyre already hopefully adding outdoor furnishings.
I find the whole "pay an additional monthly fee for Large (or any) housing" argument absolutely disingenuous. Players with a house are already paying the monthly fee in the form of being forced to pay the subscription each month in order to keep the house. Unlike people who can unsubscribe whenever they want, players with houses cannot or they lose it.
Not to mention, the exchange rate of USD in other countries is prohibitive. I find it terribly self centered to say "Yeah I'd pay an extra $15 dollars a month for a large house nbd" when those extra $15 USD a month would mean wrecking personal finances for people in other countries. I guess it really is a cynical solution to the FFXIV Housing crisis to posit as "would you like this large pixel house or eat this month?".
They could easily do a "Buy Upgrade" for an Island housing upgrade. Have Tataru or the mammets be a "tom nook" like npc where you can buy your plot. The first upgrade (small house) would be around 1-2 million gil (same as you would buy in a neighborhood). The second upgrade would be around 10- 16 million, and the large would be around 30 million (I believe that's around the range of large if i remember? I haven't been house hunting in many years since I've had one). That way it's not destroying the housing system, people still would technically have to "buy" the house, it just won't be in a neighborhood is all.
i miss proper windows in houses and apts
I would fcking pay for owning a mansion
ohhhh!!!!! since we're done with the restoration, building the Island Sanctuary as the next major crafting hub would be an amazing feature they can implement!!!! Taking inspiration from the restoration and letting it be a powerleveling from like 80 to what, 120 in the future! I love your idea!
IS endgame. It totally would solve the problem… Though I still think that the lottery system is fair the way it is, its by no means a solution to the problem… IS housing however would or could devalue normal housing, and I dont think, the devs would go for that. Should some sort of IS housing be implemented, I can only imagine it to be a limited version of what we already have.
I don't think devs ever state a goal for placing furniture/farming in island sanctuary, as is, we don't know when or whether they actually will implement it.
Too much heartbreak for housing already, just want to keep expectation as low as possible.
Also, even if they don't implement a full on upgradable house plot, if you allow people to choose more customizable option for their cozy cabin, and remove mammets from inside, I bet a lot of people would be satisfied. For example, maybe you can choose Sharlayan style, and move around the location of preset bedroom/kitchen/….etc.
You ARE a lion though.
[Memeing aside, hope that's the endgame for island sanctuary for sure]
good video with a just 1 problem its all islands and housing i do think we should be allowed to upgrade a housing for those that have one but will go back to what it was before upgrade and i hear we are getting a second island if <KeyWord) that becomes true
The developers NEED to listen to you! I think the Island Sanctuary is the best plan! You sound happy. That makes me smile!
Honestly to allot of you just getting into housing ima give you a brief history of housing and why we are where we are. 1. housing use to be way different. Yet people would abuse it by having entire fc buy out plots and sell them even higher housing for 3 mil = 9 mil housing for 20 mil = 50 mil you get the point so Fc would buy out every house that the members could sell. 2. We have the issue with players using Bots if you are reading this and you used a bot for housing ( I sincerely HATE YOU WITH ALL MY PASSION) and well that lead to allot of problems ALOT OF PROBLEMS to the point people begged GMs to watch the plot for bot users or people mass reported players for botting. 3. Lets talk about cursed timers and plots I present to you…GOBLET and its fucking cursed ass timer. Wait like 13 hours until release then waiting another 15 / 24 /32 hours for it to be available for use. Like bruh honestly right now the lottery feels like a god send compared to the horrors I and others Seen when getting a house. Yeah RNG sucks but you know what else sucks PEOPLE WHO ABUSE SHIT. Yeah you know who you are. Stop ruining it for others.We are stuck in this hell cause people can't and won't stop cheating to get stuff. Hopefully in future they add more than 1,800 plots but to the people who used bots to get a house I really hope people screwed u over with the retainer trick D:<. Yeah housing went through allot of bs cause of the player base want someone to blame start there then work your way up to yoshi-p and his team.
Island housing would fix my dream of making a theme park zone. But i highly doubt that will ever happen