Agreed. We played FFXI with an inn room that was essentially our personal housing. We all got one, for free. We could decorate it, we could garden in it, we could craft in it. We could invite friends in. All on fairly crappy pc's (by today's standards) and the PS2.
I'm an extremely casual player, sort of a little anti-social at times so not great in the forced FC community, not so great at earning a ton of gil, but I get by. I was so looking forward to having my own house, so I could raise my chocobos and do a little gardening on the side on whichever alt I happen to log into.
The housing dream for me has died. I'm not going to bash SE, I'll continue to log in for the forseeable future, but I'll tell you what I just did...I registered for the EQNext beta.
