Housing use?

Has any info been gotten on the use for housing?. Apart from showing off capabilities would there be any other uses of FC houses?. like increased storage for the more expensive ones and things like that?, or would they be purely for show?.

They mentioned some things in the live letters.

here is a copy paste from the last one:

"A: First it will be joint housing. A house of this size is going to require everyone to dish out some dough. It’s pretty expensive.

You can make furniture available to people of the same free company, or, if you want, you can set permission levels so all of your friends can use the furniture and what not. There are quite a few settings.

The reason why we’ve decided to establish them as free company bases first is because inside of the houses there is a new kind of system that involves parks and towers.

Parks would give a bonus to everyone in the free company, like an extra 25% to experience points earned. It could make crafting faster to level, or maybe give success bonuses for HQ crafting. It's a system that allows members to add things that will give boons to the entire free company. You’ll be able to increase the size of your house, and also your company can rank-up through free company points, allowing you to place more parks and towers around.


I’d first like to create a strong community within FFXIV. When new members join, you’ll be able to get more points, and we’d like to establish a system that encourages people to support new players coming into the game. Once the community has had time to come together we will then allow players to have their own private housing and branch out from there

Even for an MMO, I believe it’s nice to have a place to call home."

I think they mentioned more about it but I cannot find the source. Storage I believe was mentioned before the last letter.

OMG. WOW. Really wishing i saved up money now b4 game went down.

Also I remember hearing when we get personal housing, that if we want we can open up our house to let visitors in or visit others houses and walk around in our own neighborhoods where some houses will be small and others will be mansions. Sounds pretty epic to me. But I'll just be happy to as Yoshi-P said, "have a place to call home."

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Originally Posted by debola

OMG. WOW. Really wishing i saved up money now b4 game went down.

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i saved up 10 mil so i will have 1 mil in ARR, but i doubt it will be enough. More importantly you will not be able to buy one just for yourself yet. the first houses will be FC only.

I recall him mentioning that it's similar or could be seen like how DQX's system is, so in concept at least it'll likely let you decorate it (like how mog house did) and set up a work shop type area for crafters.

Besides that, no specifics, especially if couples could share or not since marriage systems in MMOs these days have a lot of shared features of some kind.

i can totally see marriage applications being posted on the forums for this...........

Requirement:
paragons crown
male
taru

preferences:
sense of humor appreciated.

dowry: 2 mil.

/cheer!.

you know Yoshi-p was thinking in terms of jp players, for other regions might need 10+ ppl's saving...