You could hear the collective heartbreak of thousands of FFXIV players who did not get a house this morning. This is a problem that’s been haunting the game since the days of eld, housing. Not the system itself or any of the furnishings, those are AWESOME! But the problem is all about getting a house.
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 Why you will never own a house in FFXIV
0:51 What happened
1:49 This was the best chance you had to get a home in FFXIV
4:43 HEARTBREAK
6:15 Something NEEDS to change with FFXIV
7:50 Elder Scrolls Online Housing
8:30 Closing Thoughts on Housing in FFXIV
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The amount of heartbreak people have experienced this morning is devastating. I NEED to talk about this, even as someone who does have their dream large (and trust, I fought for this YEARS ago!) I can't just look on this and turn a blind eye! This isn't right! We can't have cycles of people feeling so upset and distraught! It's not right!
Was happy that new plots came to housing true be told. me and my bf even made plans for group plots together. (we had each others house next to eachother) we tried now and just found out he got his plot in shirogane a middle one and i tried the large next to him and last second one came and bid. and even won on my try on a large plot. now im alone in my ward but he has a middle. we are happy for the one middle, but havnt any chances anymore to live next eachother anymore. was the entire day sad and depressed…
Calling this out – you checked out larges and mediums but did you check out smalls? If someone is playing for housing then you should be expanding your options and not just limit yourself to the two house sizes. Also, this was not the best time for housing. That would have been when Dynamis opened and those of us who transferred got a pick of the lot (no pun intended). In fact there is still substantial number of free personal lots, especially with the reclassification if wards 10-12
I think this is the last straw for me trying to get a house on balmung. I've been on this server for 5 yrs and there's just way too much competition on an rp server. 5 yrs of trying to get a house here, time to find a new server.
Every patch that comes out is so sad seeing all the new housing items added in the patch notes just to know I might never get to experience the housing system in this game.
The housing system in its current state just feels like a waste of development time considering less than 10% of the player base has ever gotten to experience it.
Dont listen to people who get mad gate keeping housing. The new wards were not a secret and a youtube video is not going lower anyones chances. Medium/Large odds are going to be low no matter what by nature.
I don't even have an FC apartment yet tbh. Can't imagine how getting a house down the line is gonna be. Or when I'll realistically be able to afford it given that I've neglected crafters and gatherers entirely
Island Sanctuary should have given us an instance house. :/
Instanced housing will never bear the same feeling as residential housing. There is no novelty in owning a fully decorated mansion with no friends to enjoy it with. Take it from a guy who won a personal L during OCE transfer day, I get more joy from friends visiting me than actually designing the house and filling "accomplished". Trust me, the novelty of housing wears off fast but the community aspect stays forever.
I'm on goblin and I had 25% chance on the large I bit only 4 bids :p
Feeling super sad that we will still have to go back to the plot and retrieve our gil back. 😥
Yes… found a decent Med size and only had 2 bidders… when it finished it was 20 and winner was the person before me. So annoying. So pissed this system is so bad. 20 mill back doing nothing now. Like the lottery system but hate we are still needing hundreds of more wards for the demand.
I lost to 1 other person I'm so sad
i had only one bidder with me and i didn’t win, i have been bidding since forever * intense high pitched screams*
the fact they keep doubling down and expecting this problem to fix itself is what i find most egregious an frustrating like we have examples from other less populated games which do housing so much better than ffxiv an yet all we get for our trouble is used or dirty band aid fix em ups lol
i think it would almost be better to just raid or spam mail the community teams at this point tbh cause even after 10 years they still can't seem to get it right or they are purposely shafting the content cause of how problematic it is.
something is gunna give and they need to fix it before then either they need to overhaul the complete system and servers they use for housing instances or they need to create a brand new form of player housing that ticks off all the things players want
which is: upgradable plot or house size ✅gardening area✅chocobo stable area ✅high capacity furnishing limit✅shareable with friends✅can kick pesky or nuisance players out✅better placement toggles✅
Hi my comment isn’t related to the video content as such but- your character’s accessories they have a sort of gold glow can I ask what they are 😅😅
"……Above 30 Bids"
Thinks back to before 6.3 and a medium had well over 100 bids for a 'Poor' plot in Goblet
Complete revamp the housing system. All plots start as blank undeveloped plots with no size. Players can then choose what size, donate materials and gil to build the larger house.
The only way to fix the quantity issue is to limit housing to 1 house and 1 fc house PER SERVICE ACCOUNT. My friend was crying she lost today meanwhile has 2 mansions on 2 other servers. Will this make people mad? Yes. Do you fucks deserve 100 fucking houses. No. Because it ALWAYS COMES at someone elses expense
Lost to a bid of 7 people in Shiro for a Large for private only but I still have my medium in Shiro that I won out of 237 people so I'm still happy. Gratz to the new homeowners out there! Until the next housing wave…………………..
I don't agree that instance housing would make any difference. People want housing to flex on other people. Make it instance and only ones who would care are the same people or even less.
Same thing was with Wild Star. Everyone was so hyped its instance, and genuinely some people made really amazing things, but vast majority didn't care and didn't care to even visit other houses.
And you have instant apartments, so technically everyone can experience a bit of joy making a comfy space.
Imo there needs to be more plots and people need to be able to actually lose their house.
SE is too forgiving, I would even tax people for owning a house, miss a payment and off to the pool your house goes, we do kinda need a gil dump cause litteraly gil is worthless atm
I tried my luck on a small plot but I knew I had spent my luck earlier so I wasn’t disappointed when I lost.
tbh if housing was instanced I wouldn't give a single shit about it. It honestly felt really good to win my first house when it was the hidden timer system. My friend wanted to try to go for a large house on the new wards, I bid on a medium next to his house for a chance to become neighbors. Mans lost his bid but I upgraded from a small to a medium now. Honestly housing should either A) have an actual auction for the plots so whoever grinded the most actually wins because they got more gil or B) go back to the hidden timer. Probably feels terrible losing just based on pure RNG tho considering no matter what you do you have no control over winning.
Yup…This is the 10th lottery I've taken part in. I was the only bidder until the draw day then lost out, again. I'm considering pulling my sub at this point