I knitted the competitive housing market in my favorite MMO with mind and math

The house market in Final Fantasy XIV has been one of the most controversial MMORPGs for years. Meinmmo author Sophia Weiß is the proud owner of a home in one of the most sought-after residential areas there. How did she get it? With mind and math!

If you want to own a house in Final Fantasy XIV, you unfortunately need much more than just enough in-game currency. On the one hand, most of the properties are already in firm hands. On the other hand, the new living ground is only sparsely unlocked.

But so far I have not only managed to secure one or two, but a total of four houses for my final fantasy friends and myself. And you can do that too. However, you have to understand how the system works.

Bureaucracy comes before fun

In order to be qualified for a house purchase in Final Fantasy XIV, you must also meet certain requirements in addition to possessing the required purchase price. Depending on whether you want a house for your free society aka guild or just you, they differ.

For company houses you have to meet the following points:

Private houses are primarily intended for decorating and also a bit to indicate. To do this, you have to meet the following requirements:

You can buy houses via first come, first performance principle or via the lottery. The former is simply about being the first. In the second one you have to proceed with a little more system to have the best possible opportunities in the raffle.

You can read exactly how this works with the purchase itself on the official Guide page of Square Enix. How do you choose and secure the right house? That’s how I did it.

Buying house easy (he) made

I organized the first house for the release of Shirogane, the Japanese -inspired district from the Stormblood extension. Then I worked with my guild a sprint on our dream house in one of the A-Realm Reborn districts. At the time, for both houses, who came first, the purchase law has. So here our timing was the big challenge.

The coronation is the two side houses in the sky city, the residential area in my favorite city of Ishgard. By the way, the players have activated this with the ultimate end game for craftsmen and collectors.

These are the four houses that I could secure. You can enlarge the pictures by clicking:

There was a simple strategy for the first two houses:

The current system with the lottery takes out the stress of having to be online for the patch live gang. Unfortunately, this almost always falls on a Tuesday morning, which for working and students in Germany is not a regular video season. You no longer have to sprint to the property.

However, the lottery system requires system and use elsewhere:

Armed with a large college block and pen armed, I ran just a few hours before the lottery closure by the districts in the new sky city and noted how many people had registered for my desired property in which instance.

Because two friends had proposed to secure a neighboring house, I was looking for them.

After about two hours we were able to identify three districts in which nobody had applied to our Fast Schon houses so far. We agreed on one and threw our hats into the respective rings. At this point the skull grumbled.

The result was only a few hours later: we were happy owners of digital land.

But why is the living space actually so limited and competitive?

Stricter housing shortages where it shouldn’t be

You could think that there should be enough space in a video game so that everyone has their own home. If a game continued to offer housing, it is also quite simple. In Final Fantasy XIV you don’t live alone, but in large neighborhoods. Everyone can decorate their own house with skins and decorate the garden.

However, this also means that every shop of one of the many housing distributors, not just one but all houses have to be invited-including all decorations and individual changes. This ensures an increased server load.

The amount of available houses per server is therefore limited so as not to overload the servers. Although Square Enix always implements new districts, but it will probably never be enough for one house per player or even character. In one of the largest MMORPGs in the world, there is permanently tightened housing shortage.

All current rules such as the 45-day demolition timer, the limit to one house per character and the lottery are measures to distribute the living space over more and, above all, active players.

If you want, you get – unfortunately special requests have to be waiting

My strategy demands a lot of time from a player. Of course, not everyone wants that. It also works best when new districts have just been released. Then the demand is scattered over several hundred plots of land instead of concentrating on a few free.

If you want to have a house in Final Fantasy XIV, you can get one. The personal wish house of a certain size on a great location, on the other hand, is probably only possible with fresh districts.

Would it be better if houses were more and easier available? Naturally. At the same time, the beautiful neighborhoods are indispensable for me.

Under no circumstances should this be relativized in the game. It would be a dream if all players could have their own house. Probably the developers of WoW are trying to bend and break the mistakes of Final Fantasy XIV not to repeat so as not to get into a similar situation.

Of course, there is hope that Square Enix overtakes the housing system again. With the rather freely available apartments, the team took a step in the right direction years ago. Perhaps you will also watch what the Blizzard team is currently doing and look for something for a possible refurbished housing system.

It is of course not certain whether this happens. What is safe are the first new features that will be available with Patch 7.2 at the end of March. In addition to a new end game for collectors and craftsmen, there is of course also a new main story in the starting blocks. The star of the patch will probably be the new field expedition. You can read all the information known so far: Final Fantasy XIV finally gets the popular MMO content after a long content doldrums, which everyone has been waiting for