Zepla reacts to a Ridiculous Bloomberg article on FFXIV Housing Crisis 

It honestly swings things in the opposite direction half the time.

I honestly think they should start just putting these freelance journalists against each other. Just start double dipping writing articles disagreeing with their other articles and put them to votes. If they are going to pay them nothing to write under researched articles make it bloody.

all these "well known" and "solidified" publications seemingly have gotten so bad in the last 10 years that they all parody satire.

I think a simpler view is that Journalists are almost always wrong about stuff you know about. What that stuff is doesn't really come into it. Talk to anyone in any job or hobby, ask them about how the media write about it, and they'll say it's a bunch of rubbish.

These days the more well known Publications the more there idiotic.

Ye they could make it like an apartment size at least.

Tbf my fc is constantly at our house and we never see our neighbors except for people going in and out of the apartment building. Getting a house is basically like getting a huge empty area to screw around in.

@fumanchu168 Only for solitary species. For social species (like humans), mutual cooperation is beneficial. Anyone who forgets that is, for all intents and purposes, an evolutionary dead-end.

People really need to stop forgetting that there's a *reason* we live in a society. Mutual cooperation is far more effective than radical individualism.

@@AegixDrakan Radical collectivism is arguably more dangerous.

​@@Cybertech134 I wouldn't argue otherwise, even though that's *technically* a whataboutism. Yes, we've seen how easily radical collectivism can be used to cause an insane amount of harm throughout history. But the solution isn't to focus solely on the individual and competition. That also leads to a great deal of harm. There needs to be a careful balance between ensuring wide-scale societal cooperation while not stripping away individuality. Which is why I happily pay my taxes, knowing it goes towards things like my country's universal healthcare system, so that if I, or anyone else needs help, we can get it without going bankrupt.

@@AegixDrakan You "happily" pay your taxes cause you are forced to. Compulsory collectivism is evil.

Screw that i love my sanctuary shack

@@christiansolid1098 same. Love my animal buddies and farm

Excuse you. It's not a shack anymore, it's a bungalow now. I'm not a poor.

If everyone could get a house that would be fine. But in the case where not everyone can get one, the people who are willing to put in the most effort should be the ones to get one. Having it be random between all players is a terrible solution.

@@zanido9073 Well, the effort here is just spending more time clicking a poster and hoping some random does not walk up and get lucky. Not sure I would call it a system that reward the ones who put in the most effort, more a system that takes players time and flush it down the toilett. Not saying the rng system we have is great, but at least people are not having to hang around a poster for hours on end. IMHO they should throw the current system in the garbage and replace it with something where everyone that want a house can have a house. The only effort required in a game we all pay for, should be having enough ingame money to buy it.

@@zanido9073 I think there should be plots with default auction system, who bets more wins. I'd rather farm gil for half a year to guarantee myself a house, instead of frustrating gamble for half a year.

@@Muppemania Well there's certainly better options than the previous method, but the previous method was far, FAR better than the lottery system. Standing and clicking a placard IS effort. You can argue that it's a shitty, boring implementation of effort, and I'd agree, but it was a massive barrier to entry. This meant that players who really wanted houses could reasonably obtain one, because they would only have to compete with a handful of people. When I was house hunting previously, even on Adamantoise which is a well-established server, I would only be competing with a couple people for a house at a time. So while it was a bit tedious, it only took me a couple weeks of medium effort to get a house. With the current lottery system, if I wanted another house it would on average take me 4+ years, because every single house has over 200 bids on it every week. And medium/large have easily 1k+. As for having money to buy it, if you're talking about a free market yes that would be a much better solution. Of course people will cry about the RMT implications, but there are other solutions that would be just as effective at addressing the shortage. One example I've mentioned a few times is giving a priority system to, for example, mentors. You put in the time and effort to obtain mentorship status and bam, you're at the top of the list for housing.

@@Kamasillvia 100% agree, something with an end goal is WAY better than just rolling the dice every single week.

Y’all will be happy with the new whiteboard function YoshiP hinted at then :D

Nah, it's fair. Just reimburse them for the purchase price. Categorise it under griefing. For every 2 players that might ragequit, 30 more get a house. You're not exactly risking losing the cream of the community.

There's folks that own half a ward on cactuar. They all look the same like some creepy housing development. It's so obviously a multi box exploit yet SE does nothing about it.

Exactly this. They pick one house to keep (or one for FC, and one personal, if applicable) and the rest get sold. Greed shouldn't be rewarded.

Its still a thing even now,every world has a ward thats just 1 person that has 20 fc's

Fuck'em

Are there not enough apartments for everyone? I always see some vacant. The real problem with FFXIV apartments is that they don't give you access to any outdoor furnishings, including gardening. You can put a couple of flower pots in an apartment, but they don't cross-breed.

There are open apartments in every single ward. You can also have a FC room simultaneously. What you want exists so I'm not sure what the point of your comment is.

@@Justin-ym4pm most people I talk to don't care about the outdoor decorations. The apartments and FC rooms are too small. I have a small house and the only reason I want a medium is more indoor space to play with. The outdoor decorations are pretty limited and may as well not exist as far as I'm concerned.

@@Justin-ym4pm depends on the world. If you look it up you’ll find at least one where all are taken.

@@Justin-ym4pm in moogle, this housing roulette there are only 2 private houses free to bid on. In Uldah, last category one person owns most of the houses there as well as they got it before the housing system changed. There are barely any houses free at all in moogle so

If you have an FC house then you can make your room cool at least. Lots of great housing from mount farms and dungeons.

If she makes dumb comments like in this video, I can see why. She seems like a normal person tho, so no hard feelings.

YES and while you cant decorate really your "housing" in GW2 everyone has their instance Plots should be for FCs to keep the neighborhood feel and get to instanced housing with an npc " neighborhood" kinda like Guild Wars 2 except you customizable as it is now

@@awkwardelf no thx thats dumb...please leave that is what killed TOR.... better off doing it the way SWG did

*Power Tripping FC Leader has kicked you from the FC*

Yeah and? theres people with 50+ accounts your point?

Yeah it’s because they’re doing, or at least benefiting from, the same BS in the offline world

Ok you’re not wrong. Geez that’s kinda funny I didn’t realize sooner

Zero regulation on homes so you can build a shit house that'll fall apart so you can charge the homeowner more to rebuild the same shitty house 2 years down the line

@@UltaFlame , that's to do with safety, not zoning. Different things.

The housing problem in ff doesn't mirror real life at all. While the lottery system and price controls are indeed antithetical to free markets, the problems in ff are a result of nongovernmental systems. There is no regulation on housing with the exception of auto demolition from inactivity. The fact that there is a limited number of houses is an economic problem stemming from irl economic limitations (servers, data centers, etc.). In other words, it isn't a policy implemented by the developers. It's a limit of resources and revenue. This doesn't automatically mean more governmental controls are necessary. Quite the opposite. What's needed are more player based decisions like a real economy. If players were allowed to freely trade housing, there'd be more internal regulation by the player base itself through simple supply and demand economics. You'd most likely see a greater degree of parity in server populations like water seeking its own level as players try to find available housing. You'd also see booms and busts during content drought and patch releases with housing prices going down during the former, and going up during the latter.

The entire issue is that they can’t buy new servers since the semiconductor shortage began 2 years ago. There were multiple posts on that, it was horror for them to get the specific server configuration they needed With the influx of players and the congestion problems I can well understand why they decided to turn whatever they could get into login servers and new datacenters first

Keep learning, as most of what you said is wildly inaccurate.

@@thewittyusername 😄 love u!

I'd like to help with easy TP! First, you get a free one from doing 2 factor authenticator to log in. I assign this to Limsa. I can TP to my FC's house and appartment. One in Gridania one in Ul'dah. I recently set my home point for Foundation. On top of that if you Data Center hop it will put you in your starting city state, so I can go to Gridania for free if I change DCs often, may also work for world hopping when logged out. If you do things with you Grand Company you can get Grand Company specific tickets as well. You can save locations to history for easy access, you can set them as favored to save gil or use teleport tickets. Also multiple houses aren't allowed anymore. They used to be and the people who got them still get to keep them.

@@cutecats532 thanks! Those are all great ideas, appreciate the help ☺️

There's a Final Fantasy 11 which doesn't have housing and also has a wonderful community. JFC It's like I'm not even allowed to play 14 anymore.

It's just bloomberg. This kind of thing is what they do. x_x

agreed, although they could easily implement a system that is better than both.

No because islands only have a handful of customization options, whereas houses have hundreds. Houses take way, way more server resources.

@@zanido9073 they just meant it's ironic because irl a lot of the lower class have access to houses but the super rich can afford to buy an entire island.

I remember I was one of 3people who applied for house in lottery and got bug 0...next lottery was 56 people. It kinda killed me a bit inside.

It only doesn't make sense because there's no player trading for housing. Even if you can only buy one house per player, there's still too few homes to buy. So it isn't a problem with hoarding per se. Although it can be one as shown here.