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Last Tuesday saw the release of The Legend Returns, Stormblood’s first major content update. Patch 4.1 brings a wealth of features including a new 24-man raid, an extreme primal and a continuation of the storyline after the liberation of Ala Mhigo.
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Its definitely a system that wont ever see a true fix, just like with the main story gating 75% of the game. The "work around" for that was selling boosts, so it wont surprised me if SE just opens up "premium" wards that you can rent for real money to ensure you get a house, similar to their optional retainer service which is the same as renting extra space in the game with real money.
So, why are people upset about it? Shouldnt you be expecting this to happen at this point?
Just do instanced housing and everyone is happy. Well, except the people that cry "but mah immersions" but no one cares about them anyway.
I'd say the complaints work but they honestly dont. The vocal minority that does exist on the forums wont unsub because you need to be subbed in order to post on the forum anyway (with about a 2 week kick off period if you've unsubbed). There's also the fact that a HUGE number would have to unsub for it to honestly matter mainly because the cash shop more than likely pulls in half their revenue, especially with how nickle and dimed its set up (with items not being account bound and even being sold gender specific of the same item, I even think you can permanently lose some cash shop housing items upon a demolition).
Probably more for people who are more interested in the world aspect than just a "game".
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
There's that and there's also the fact that certain mats are only exclusive to having a house as well since you can only garden if you have a house and FC's can do airship exploration missions which can bring in exclusive mats as well. So its a bit more than just cosmetic to some.
everything that is wrong with some of today's MMORPG gamers...it is a WORLD not a combat lobby. You are playing the wrong genre...
EVERY single time? Not quite.
ESO introduced housing recently and there's been *no* such problem. You can buy one of every single house in the game, with no trouble, no limits, no restrictions. EQ2 has had housing widely available to players for over a decade. RIFT, Wildstar, and so on. LoTRO had a similar system in place about a decade before FFXIV, on far weaker hardware, and they somehow managed.
This is fairly unique - or at least very limited - to FFXIV because of the ridiculously short-sighted way they implemented housing. It's been a trainwreck since it was added, because Yoshi-P would rather double-down and add band-aids to a flawed design, than do the right thing by admitting he screwed up and actually fixing it. The closest he's come to admitting it was a screw-up was more of a thinly veiled self-congratulatory pat on the back about how they "didn't expect it to be so popular!". This is the same excuse they gave for why they weren't prepared for the influx of players at ARR's re-release. They seem to have a problem with gauging their own customers.
Every time they fall short on delivery of something, they spin it into a round-about success story for "how the game is exceeding their expectations!". And of course, the die-hard fans keep eating it up and regurgitating it.
I wonder how many more anniversaries Yoshida's going to make sure to remind everyone how he "saved FFXIV" until that cow's goodwill reserves are milked dry?
But I digress. This problem with housing is not wide-spread and not typical of any MMO with housing. This is the first time I've played a MMO whose housing system was so horribly designed and implemented that the same exact problem arises every time there's an update to it.
Most of this games carrot has become doing things just for aesthetic purposes. Housing is just another bigger form of this and people are losing their minds over it.
God I'm glad I quit this terrible game...
I knew I wasn't alone in this I agree totally with zanfire Edit: to add to this in Destiny 2 also they have cool looking gear people go after but at least the cool looking ones offer different stats too like more resilience(defense) or health regeneration or mobility
You are in the wrong genre I have a game for you 2nd life or sims or mine craft go build your own house and call it a world lol