In the lead-up to Patch 6.3,Final Fantasy 14announced some changes planned for player and free company housing that are coming to the game when the update goes live. The news came via an official post from Square Enix, just two weeks before the planned release ofFinal Fantasy 14Patch 6.3, Gods Revel, Lands Tremble.
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As previously announced during the Live Letter, Patch 6.3 will add six new wards per housing district, numbered 25 through 30. Each ward will have 60 plots, with five housing districts per server for a total of 1,800 housing plots available for purchase via the housing lottery system. The lottery for these wards will commence on Sunday, January 15, which is one day before the conclusion ofthe annual Heavensturn holiday. In an official post on theFinal Fantasy 14Lodestone page, Square Enix stated that of the six new plots, one will be exclusive to free companies, one will be for players only, and the other four will be available to both free companies and players. However, players on the Dynamis and Materia datacenters, as well as the Phantom, Sagittarius, Alpha, and Raiden servers will not be able to purchase plots in wards 25 through 30 due to the availability of plots in previously established wards.
On the other hand, with the launch of Patch 6.3, theautomatic demolition timer will return toFinal Fantasy 14. Players and free companies that have not entered their houses since the timer was paused over a year ago will not have much longer to do so before those plots are demolished and go up for sale to any prospective house seekers. It remains unclear if the lottery or first come, first served system will be applied to demolished plots, so players will have to wait and see when those plots do show up for sale.
As players look forward toenjoying the New Year inFinal Fantasy 14, it remains to be seen how fast these new housing plots will go when the lottery kicks off in the middle of January. Between that and a growing number of requests for instanced housing from players, only time will tell what Square Enix will do to improve their housing systems in the future.
Final Fantasy 14is available now for PC, PS4, and PS5.
