FFXIV Housing is so Savage | Gaming Kinda
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It's absolutely a terrible system that's highly anti-fun for everyone trying to get a house who can't get lucky. Yes, it gets people to ubsub. I've known plenty of people who unsub'd because of the housing system just burning them out.
A friend of mine spent 10 hours clicking on a post to get his house, but he had help from our lala buddy going Bard and trumpeting a fire alarm in every other claiment's ears until they went away. Is that against ToS, or just weaponised Lalaism?
They should make it one house per account period. Those that grandfathered many homes or an entire neighborhood should be given a choice to keep one and the rest are given up for sell. This isn’t the real world let people have a home. The only other thing they could really do is an instanced house like ff11 which at this point I wouldn’t mind either. The current housing system is just idiotc, I’d rather it be a lottery so at least I’m. It was irony my time. I have a house and think it’s broken.
Me living in a barren apartment just like in game.
Ishgard won't help forever, people make alts and buy the houses with FCs, just to sell those FCs for extortionate prices. It's not enough to simply add more plots, they need to throw away the "click for 30 hours" nonsense and just turn it into a lottery based system.
The lottery system makes the most sense, among the fact that it obviously cuts out the standing around and wasting your subscription in front of a placard, it curbs the number of alts whose only existence is to literally take these houses hostage and sell it to players at unfair prices.
If anyone hasn't seen these FC alt examples that I'm talking about, take a look through your server's wards, just keep looking through them until you notice about 20 houses all taken by the same FC tag. Look at the name of the FCs and notice that they all have something similar with maybe a different prefix (in most cases it's Alpha Beta Gamma etc.).
The fact that these players can so openly do this is a joke. This only ignites the problem of RMT, where small houses will go for 10m just to be released, mediums at 100m, and god knows what a large is worth to players, but because of these extortionate prices, players would be more motivated to just pay for the gil or the house with real money instead.
when i heard you got a house, i was super excited for you and your family. but then i found out it was in game, and no irl. still excited for you, just differently.
I hope they change the housing market, it’s clearly not healthy. I’d love to start an FC with my friends and buy and decorate a house together, but I really don’t want to spend hours clicking for something I may not even get.
So… I agree with you on so many points of this topic. The housing system is rewarding and unlocks a TON of content. But it's very unfair and unfun to get into. It encourages botting in some ways…. But you have to remember that in real life housing and land is a finite resource. You are not owed a house just because you play and have the money. Housing is 5/10 resource production 4/10 cosmetic and 1/10 an actual resource itself. and because of that it's not seen as an issue. And truthfully should feel like a prize just to have a small house.
I would simply suggest a system where players put their money to register as "i want this house", then at a specific time 1 of them (randomly selected) gets the house and the rest get their money back. It's not a great system but it would immediately become more healthy and less frustrating with no downsides in comparison to the current system. It would work great as a middle step before they figure out their final solution to this tragedy.
The complaints about housing are getting old.
1. Check the plots each day. New houses open up regularly.
2. Become a tenant with a friend who has a house.
3. Utilize the apartments.
4. Go to a less populated server if it matters that much to you.
5. Be satisfied with something other than the large plot in the best location.
6. Be satisfied with being in any of the housing districts.
7. Not everyone deserves a house.
I've owned 3 different houses in my 7 years of ffxiv. I've never camped and clicked a plot once to buy it. Beggars can't be choosers. Not a popular opinion but the truth hurts.
I would rather they focused on fixing other housing problems like people buying and selling plots or free companies buying entire wards. Making instanced housing completely wrecks the experience.
Does another video really need to be made by another person?
We do have instanced housing. It's apartments. Not as fancy and can't do the outdoors stuff. But we have it.
I agree, the HOW TO GET a house is an issue. But I think we will be worse off if we do instanced housing like in WoW or other similar games.
The housing system in ffxiv is so unique and actually ends up building tight communities, ive come across district parties a couple times just running around my FC's housing area. And it was like a block party free cake and all that.
It sucks, that there are so many people that can't get a house. They really need tk fix this.
But I hope they never add instanced housing.
Single instance housing would be a reasonable solution, allows those who look for the community to work towards that option (with some minor changes to acquisition obviously). Instanced housing already exists as a system, so creating a new cell (as an example, lets just say Island homes) that you get your own personal island at a higher price point would be reasonable and allow a majority if those looking for homes to have an option.
Some has been saying diadem tickets might be the solution. Like actually earn the plot you helped bulid.
You'll excuse me for paying attention to the meta for a moment, but the question I have is why is it designed this way, and not so much the trials and tribulations of actually trying to get a house, but why where other MMO's like Star Wars Galaxies didn't have any issues like this, why does Final Fantasy XIV have this issue of fundamental housing shortages and unhealthy gameplay?
Is it purposely done? Is it lazy design? Is it patent issues? Is it just devs wanting to torture their customers? :p
I'm being facetious there but why, what is the meta in this, why is it designed this way?
BRUH 73 hours??!?!?! THE FUCK… it took me like 18 minutes.
Nah i personnally love the way the Housing section is now.
its a rite of passage. Everyone should have to go through that.
Before my break, I sat at a plot in lavender beds for 10hrs.
I took vacation time from work. Yes I got paid, but I still devoted my entire day to getting a plot. 10 hours of clicking and I lost the plot because I took 30 seconds to pee.
2 weeks later I left ff14 for wow. Now I'm back and I'm 100% ignoring houses. Screw it. Until its changed I want no part of the massive salt factory it turned me into for those 2 weeks.
Im really hoping that Island Sanctuary will either be the new instanced housing or something for those that couldnt get a house/prefer a farm type house. If Island Sanctuary is going to be like a mini Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley, FFXIV will be closer to that 100% perfect mark for me 🙂
When he says clicking on signs, what does that mean is he just walking around wards and clicking on all the house signs hoping in that one moment it will be purchasable?
You know, in the past you were able to buy housing plot straight away. And that led to situations where people were hoarding them (because you were able to have more than one) and then selling those with higher price to people who then also atop of that price for a scalper needed to pay also for a plot of land.
That's the reason why that mechanism of randomness was added to the game.
To me the solution for your housing problem is obvious and I am sure other comments have mentioned it but: Decorate your house and make it content! Let chat help you set things up. It will be a disaster house but it will be funny and you'll have a story for why it is the way it is.
Not to get political but they shpuld hire an housing advocate/activist or lefty who has unique ideas about accessibility
I honestly think for private house, this is ok. It's luxury, and if you want it, then get in line. Because apartment is available for all.
What i'm sad about is that FC need to partake in this too, because a lot of things are hidden or only accessible through housing. Like chocobo stable for an instance. And people who's an omni crafter but cant partake in submersible grind. I think some ward should be FC only ward. Not that all FC should get a plot. but at least they dont have to compete with people who wants luxury item in the game.
I dont know why but FC ward seems like its going to be a fun ward lol.
I currently own 2 small plots in FFXIV, a private estate, and an estate for the FC that I run, and tbh I really do feel guilty for having that much. Sometimes I find myself having a crisis of conscience, wondering if it would be the right thing to do to give up my private estate. At this point, I would be happy to give up my unique "yard" or "plot" or whatever if it meant switching to a system where housing is fully instanced so that every player can have one. Like apartments, but bigger and better. Before Ishgard restoration there was Doman Enclave, and I always said it would be amazing if the last part of that was building a mansion that belongs to the player. Looks the same to everyone on the outside, but the inside is instanced. I mean, ALL of Doman Enclave is already instanced to the individual, so why not? Ishgard is another chance for that, and it's not gonna happen. Island Sanctuary is another chance for that, and it's not gonna happen. It's just the only way to compromise in a way that's fair to everyone, with the added benefit of not having to look at your neighbors' yard that's filled entirely with 20-foot-tall Namazu statues…
I’d love to buy a house in the game. I don’t think I’ll ever have enough Gil to get one. There are never any homes available. They should just add a house for every account and lock it behind a decent quest line. Though I know the logistics are hard to work through.
I feel really luck, after watching and reading about peoples housing nightmares :O I got my small house in the first month of playing the game, 5 months later I own medium FC house and medium personal house
couldnt multiple layers be created for each plot so mulple people can get a house it would simular to something wow did with garrisons in wod
I love housing and i get super sad/mad when i see ppl getting a house but not actually doing anything to it.. If u get a house plz do smth to it. I get it that ppl want it for the gardening as well but i just get the feeling that ppl who get the house and just let it sit there without work or effort put in it are wasting those ppls time who desperately want a house for decorating..
I'm a new player who came here from WoW, largely because I heard this game had good player housing. I wasn't told it's such an exclusionary, gatekept system, and that unless you're cool with the apartments (I really dislike them), you're just not allowed to engage with the system. Why? Why is it so awful and poorly planned out? The devs made the entire Calamity event because they wanted more players and they felt there weren't enough in 1.0, so why didn't they give these players they were courting somewhere to live?
I want a home in Lavender Beds more than anything else in this game, but I feel like I'll never be able to get that, and that makes me so sad that I almost want to stop playing, as the only thing I can think about when I play FFXIV now is that I'll never have what I want the most. I feel so left out, I hate it. 🙁
I had people in a comment section of a different video VEHEMENTLY arguing that the housing system isn't broken.
Sure, housing isn't perfect but too many people are entitled. Just because you want it, it doesn't guarantee you gon' get it. Don't wanna spend hours clicking placards? Then don't, i don't understand the incessant complaining.
Just do instanced housing like EQII
thats how i feel about wow
They need to make housing, that is NOT FC buildings, like the apartment system. Click the door, choose your house within this particular lot.
bro do you know how fucking little i (and most others) care about the popularity of your stream because you started clicking on signs?
The housing system is literal garbage. More players than ever but still stuck with this antiquated limited housing system for 0.001% of its players.
So is a house just for RP?
Or can you do anything there? Can you log out in a bed in a house? Etc.
How does housing work after the purchase?
Can you see what plot or house is available without clicking placard? Will the map show it? I'm new to the game btw.