To be honest, I'm exceedingly disappointed with the housing situation. I love having my own house but for whatever BS reason, there are so few plots available. This is basically spitting on all the paying customers, no matter how hard we work, we can't even get a plot because they are all taken, even on smaller worlds. The fact that they gate so much content behind the ownership of a house is even worse.
Some people really aren't getting this... I don't just need to save up the money. I have already done that. My problem is not that I am unwilling to do the effort required to make enough gil. My problem is that there are no plots available on my server.
To the suggestion of joining another fc. 1) I appreciate the invitation, thank you! 2) But also, no thanks. My friends and I run a small fc, which we have been running in various games for over a decade. We have always had bad experiences in other guilds; we even tried joining one in this game when we first started, and it went terribly (wouldn't let us raid as a group, wanted to split us up into different fc raid teams, screw that noise). We want a house that we can manage ourselves, and run the way we want. AND we have saved up the gil for it. We have enough for a medium right now, and are trying to even save up for a large. So we're definitely putting in the work. As a result, we should be able to get the damn house!
Finally, about just buying the license, and not having a right to all content: I would dispute that. For one thing, anyone who gives reasons why SE is justified in giving us a game "license" that doesn't grant us at least the potential to experience everything in the game is casting their vote for how video gaming, as a hobby, should be. Do we really want a world where companies do that to their games on the reg? Saying that "that's just how it is" is a vote in favor of the status quo, and that sucks. Secondly, even if that is the case, it would need to be made crystal clear to the buyer beforehand. Legally, I would argue there's definitely a reasonable expectation of getting full access to a digital product, when I purchase it. And if it really is the case, and SE has the legal right of it, then frankly, I'd prefer to spend my money somewhere else, because that is/would be garbage.
They should make FCs/players able to "rent" a workshop. Maybe pay 1.500.000 Gil to Cid for upgrading his workshop in Mor Dhona, which can then used by FC-members to do all the aircraft-stuff.
It's just unfair, that FCs might not be able to even get an airship before boarding them is implemented. I build an airship before for my Ixal-buddies... now I want one for myself.
I wonder how many worlds have no housing plots left? (There are a number of vacant lots on ours, but don't tell anyone!!)
I tried to make a list, but people stopped giving information and it entered The Housing Spiral so it stopped being useful.