So how are you dealing with your housing-induced rage?

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Originally Posted by Grant_Wilshire

Sorry for my ignorance, but why is there such a great desire to have a house? I have only been playing for a few weeks so my knowledge of the game overall is lacking.

I was just trying to understand if the desire to own a house is just due to a desire to "own" something, or if there is a benefit to gameplay.

Please don't attack me - just curious. Thanks!

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There are several features tied to the housing.

-Chocobo Training (When your chocobo hits level 10 you can raise them further to level 20 and even dye them in housing stables)
-Airships (You can build airships and send them on expeditions to bring back rare items or use the airship to get to the diadem without forming a full party in ishgard)
-Orchestrian (Let's you listen to songs outside of an inn room)
-Vendors and other items (Housing allows you to have an armoire, cutscene log, summoning bell for retainers, aethsetician, mender, dye seller, materials vendor, FC bank, mailbox all in one location.)

I may be missing some things, but housing does have many features tied to it that are exclusive only to FC houses. Personal houses are actually lacking some of them.

debating rage unsubbing until housing is plentiful. I have enough games to keep me busy and all I do right now is log in to make gil to save for a house. Now that I have the gil, nothing ever avail. Levianthan sold out in 5 minutes.

I'm remembering why I moved to the biggest servers in the first place and enjoying the fruits of transfers well spent.

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Originally Posted by Grant_Wilshire

Sorry for my ignorance, but why is there such a great desire to have a house? I have only been playing for a few weeks so my knowledge of the game overall is lacking.

I was just trying to understand if the desire to own a house is just due to a desire to "own" something, or if there is a benefit to gameplay.

Please don't attack me - just curious. Thanks!

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Never be afraid too ask questions, most people on this forum are all about Housing and just want themselves, friends and FC mates too be able too enjoy one of the most fun and widely varied aspects of the game.

debating on skipping 3.3 after i finish story so im caught up with unlocks at least and unsubbing until around ishgard housing system at least

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Originally Posted by Grant_Wilshire

Sorry for my ignorance, but why is there such a great desire to have a house? I have only been playing for a few weeks so my knowledge of the game overall is lacking.

I was just trying to understand if the desire to own a house is just due to a desire to "own" something, or if there is a benefit to gameplay.

Please don't attack me - just curious. Thanks!

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Depends how you look at it and what you want to get out of the game. For some it's a definite deal breaker. My FC has a house and has had one for some time, there's nothing so amazing about it that it trumps other aspects of the game for me personally. Things locked behind housing: Decorating a house, building an airship (really just advanced retainer ventures and access to Diadem without having to go to Ishgard), Chocobo leveling and dyeing, and gardening. I enter our FC house about once a month to go down to the junk monger and buy Dark Matters so I can repair my gear. I'm sure some people use the house, but there's nothing really ground breaking there for me.

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Originally Posted by Grant_Wilshire

Sorry for my ignorance, but why is there such a great desire to have a house? I have only been playing for a few weeks so my knowledge of the game overall is lacking.

I was just trying to understand if the desire to own a house is just due to a desire to "own" something, or if there is a benefit to gameplay.

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In other MMOs housing is not as limited as FF XIV. FF XIV has the worse housing system. Housing means that you get to own your own house and decorate it however you like it. Some games like LOTRO you have to pay a weekly rent, others like here there is no rent once you've gotten your plot. I had a deluxe elf house back when I was playing LOTRO and I had a lot of fun with it. Players had the choice between regular size and deluxe size for their house, while FCs there all got the biggest houses on the wards. There only one house per account per server were allowed and alts could share the same house. Once a ward was full another one was instantly created.

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Originally Posted by Korbash

In other MMOs housing is not as limited as FF XIV. FF XIV has the worse housing system. Housing means that you get to own your own house and decorate it however you like it. Some games like LOTRO you have to pay a weekly rent, others like here there is no rent once you've gotten your plot. I had a deluxe elf house back when I was playing LOTRO and I had a lot of fun with it. Players had the choice between regular size and deluxe size for their house, while FCs there all got the biggest houses on the wards. There only one house per account per server were allowed and alts could share the same house. Once a ward was full another one was instantly created.

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Hah!! I forgot about the rent. LOTRO was actually an amazing game, the crafting, costumes, housing were all top notch. Being able to hybrid pipe weed to create different smoke ring animations was he best.

The fact that people want to unsubscribe due to housing is honestly silly. Yeah I get the system may be slightly messed up, but is anyone throwing out any ideas to SE on how to fix it? Or are we just complaining without trying to even help?

Maybe be mad at the players who do this to you guys. It's not SE that's buying the houses before anyone else can and selling them to you and an even higher price. It's the COMMUNITY that's f****** everyone over.

I get other games may have better systems, but this one doesn't have a system like that, and I doubt they're just going to rework their system completely and start from scratch. What they need is ideas on how to make the CURRENT system better; not what SHOULD have been made from scratch, they can't do anything with that.

Personally, I have no ideas on bettering the system because it affects me little. But if anyone finds a reasonable and well thought out solution, maybe make a thread and petition that and SE will catch on and hopefully implement the idea in the near future.

Thanks for all the responses I received in this thread!