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Final Fantasy XIV Finally Getting New Housing Wards in Update 5.1

While Final Fantasy XIV is a very popular and beloved game in many servers there isn't enough housing for everyone. This is about to be mitigated.

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While Final Fantasy XIV is a very popular and beloved game, there is one element of friction for many players. That’s the fact that in many servers there isn’t enough housing for everyone.

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Luckily, this is about to change, or at least to be mitigated.

Today Square Enix announced on its official website The Lodestone that the upcoming update 5.1 will add some breathing room to those looking for a house.

All residential districts will have wards 19 through 21 added with their own subdivisions, meaning 180 plots of land for each district and 720 per server.

While this may not help everyone in big servers like the ever-popular Balmung, each district will also get two new apartment buildings, one for the main district and one in the subdivision.

That being said, the plots of land will be available only to free companies for a limited amount of time before they’re opened to single players.

Patch 5.1 will be titled “Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty,” and it’ll release in late this month. If you want to hear more of what it’ll bring, you can read our extensive recap of the latest broadcast.

If you’d like to learn more about Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers in general, you can read our recent interview with Naoki Yoshida and Banri Oda,  our review of the latest expansion and our article explaining why it features the best story among all the tales told by the Final Fantasy series.

You can also read the report on our latest visit to the Eorzea Cafe in Tokyo and that about the recent orchestra concert.

Final Fantasy XIV is currently available for PS4 and PC.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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