Final Fantasy 14’s Patch 6.3 Brings Revisions to Player Housing

Final Fantasy 14 revealed several adjustments for player and free company housing that will be added to the game when Patch 6.3 is released. Square Enix announced the news in an official article, barely two weeks before the anticipated release of Final Fantasy 14 Patch 6.3, Gods Revel, Lands Tremble.

The release date for Final Fantasy 14 Patch 6.3 was disclosed just before Christmas Day, during Letter from the Producer Live Part 75. When the update is published on January 10, it will include new main narrative missions, a new 24-player alliance raid, a huge redesign of the paladin Job, and further gameplay and balancing enhancements for PvE and PvP content. Patch 6.3 will also include a few new dwelling components based on submissions to a previous Furnishing Design Contest conducted by Square Enix.

Patch 6.3 will introduce six additional wards per housing district, numbered 25 through 30, as originally mentioned during the Live Letter. Each ward will have 60 plots, and each server will have five housing districts, for a total of 1,800 housing plots available for purchase via the housing lottery system. The lottery for these wards will begin on Sunday, January 15, one day before the traditional Heavensturn holiday concludes. Square Enix revealed in an official statement on the Final Fantasy 14 Lodestone website that one of the six new plots would be unique to free businesses, one for players exclusively, and the other four will be open to both free companies and players. However, owing to the availability of plots in previously constructed wards, players on the Dynamis and Materia datacenters, as well as the Phantom, Sagittarius, Alpha, and Raiden servers, will be unable to acquire plots in Wards 25 through 30.

The automated demolition timer, on the other hand, will return to Final Fantasy 14 with the release of Patch 6.3. Players and free corporations who have not entered their homes since the timer was halted over a year ago will not have much longer before those plots are destroyed and sold to any interested house buyers. It is unclear if the lottery or first come, first served procedure would be used for destroyed plots, so gamers will have to wait and see when such plots become available for purchase.

Final Fantasy 14 fans may look forward to celebrating the New Year, but it’s unclear how quickly these new house plots will sell out once the lottery begins in the middle of January. With that in mind, and an increasing amount of demands from players for exampled homes, only time will tell what Square Enix will do to enhance its housing systems in the future.