Do you prefer houses or apartments?

As the title asks! Which do you prefer? Why?

House for a few reasons....

1. The view. I've got a lovely medium with a gorgeous view and you simply don't get that with apartments.
2. Space. Apartments are too small, limited, and cramped for my taste. I can never get the kind of looks I want in them. On a house I can at least build out multiple rooms and ideas.
3. Garden. I can put items out in my garden for further decorating and remodel the exterior. Which you can't do in an apartment.

Honestly, I would consider moving to an apartment if they came up with a much larger one with a nice view and outdoor ability, but as it is, my house by the lake is the best thing ever. :)

Personally, houses.

They just have more space and utility.

Personally, I prefer apartments.
- If I can't log in for X amount of days or months, I don't have to worry about losing it
- And thus, I don't have to ever worry about losing my housing items
- Because it's there indefinitely, I don't have to waste IRL money or stress if I can't afford sub just to keep it either, which is nice
- It's pretty quick and easy to check out other players' apartments in your own ward
- I discovered with my original houses that I really didn't use both floors, I mainly used one, so the single floor (with lofts) works for me just fine.
- I like the simple square shape without any permanent stairs because my space is 100% customisable, whereas I found cottages and mediums a little awkward in shapes sometimes, especially with their staircases.

Drawbacks
- No outdoor space (i.e. no garden or ability to use outside furnishings)
- Too few item slots (with my house, I could block off the bottom floor if I wanted and use all 200 on the top floor)
- No variation in size
- Don't really get a neighboury feel. I never see my fellow flatmates.

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Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

As the title asks! Which do you prefer? Why?

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Both have their appeals for me.

Apartments are the safe bet since you never have to worry about losing them due to inactivity. A apartment is also bigger than the first floor of a small house but obviously doesn't have a basement. Still that bigger upper space leaves more freedom to work with... until you realize apartments have only half the allowed item count that a small house does. 100 items is prohibitively low and I hope SE ups that to 150 or even 200 in the not too distant future.

Houses are the prestige option. Because of the scarcity of available houses on most servers, actually nabbing one is a pretty big feather in your cap. It also gives you an exterior and yard to decorate which in turn lets you access crossbreeding via gardening. The downside to owning a house is that long stretches of being unsubbed can not only cost you the house, but all the furnishings as well if you can't get resubbed in time.

If houses never had to fear demolition, they'd be my pick hands down. But since they do have to fear such, apartments have a certain appeal and while I do have a house, I also have an apartment just in case something happens and I can't keep my sub going.

apartments because they don't have an auto-demolition timer

For myself, I'm happy to stick with my apartment. No fight over housing and no demolition, since I've always played on and off. And back when I bought it (sadly now no more) I had a couple of friends all with apartments in the same corridor and it was fun to visit each other.
But estethically houses are certainly a lot nicer, there's only so much space to customize an apartment plus of course no garden and outside looks.

I think I would prefer apartments if they had a few things, windows you could see in and out of (like the pendants in the 1st) a choice of small, med, large, apartments, with a balcony or without a balcony. Each choice aside basic of course costing 50k-200k more per option. Also with the increase in size gardening plot for balconies, item limit upgrades etc.

House, outdoors and more room. And literally love the yard/outdoors that you can decorate. If apts had that, it might even be comperable. (sp? Idk English is not the first language.)

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

Personally, houses.

They just have more space and utility.

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I've seen a few smalls (not all of them) where the entire bottom floor is walled off, and the top decorated portion is poorly done; didn't use most of the item limit, etc. I can tell because of how little items they have out. They don't use the garden outside either so it makes me scratch my head and wonder why they don't just settle with a apartment instead. :(

Apartments; they're cheaper, easier to get, not as restricted, and i think they're way easier to decorate. You have less space so they never feel as empty, plus working with less space can make it more fun, not to mention less decorations needed, so less gil spent. I love my cozy little apartment personally and really dont want a house, the only thing im jealous of are their yards.

Reminds me of playing the Sims 3 when i was younger; the little houses i made always looked better than the giant, messy mansions i made with money cheats X)

I like the space houses have and the fact I can do so much inside and display nearly anything I would like. But at the same time compared to the amount of item slots, esp for larges, you have to block off most that space otherwise your place looks baron.

I also like the outdoors area that a house provides. I like making gardens and outdoor spaces, customizing my exterior etc. At the same time so can my neighbors and the kawaii décor or the more disturbing like piassa is something I don't want to stare it. Also some of the exteriors are so high (carbuncle and Shirogane esp) that it blocks the views I once had.

I like that I can buy a house and be done, no taxes, no gil sinks, etc. I think that is just a silly concept and am glad they didn't incorporate it into the system.

I like the variety of furniture and the fact they always incorporate more, I dislike how restricted we are when it comes to placing it.

But I like the fact that apartments are instanced so I can have my own little corner of the world. They are just so small I got one only to use as a run off storage room for my actual house.

SE, however, is absolutely set on forcing us all into community settings without giving us an instanced option. Not sure if its limitations do to the tech or the fact they flat out don't want to. With their lack of communication with us overall I tend to believe its just that they (or at least Yoshida) don't want to.

I had a personal house but surrendered it recently and now have apartments for my main and my alts that qualify. I prefer the space to items ratio in an apartment (I like clutter) tho I wouldn't complain about having more items. Don't miss the garden either to my surprise but I can garden at the FC house if I want to (I don't). I wouldn't complain if they made apartments bigger tho. Certainly wouldn't complain if they added more instanced housing with more variety, be happy to throw my gil at that

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Originally Posted by Lissandra

I've seen a few smalls (not all of them) where the entire bottom floor is walled off, and the top decorated portion is poorly done; didn't use most of the item limit, etc. I can tell because of how little items they have out. They don't use the garden outside either so it makes me scratch my head and wonder why they don't just settle with a apartment instead. :(

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Yeah. =w=
Some people just want houses to brag (I've seen a few empty private mansions with only summoning bells inside).
Others may want to do more things with their house but can't afford it or don't have any idea/direction on what to do.
It's just the option of having more space and utility (plus the street cred) makes it more appealing.

There are things I like and dislike about them both:

Apartments
+ Affordable
+ Availability
+ Permanent; you don't have to keep paying/having to login just to retain it
+ Marketboard + Aetheryte right outside your door (not all houses have that convenience, spots that do are usually more pricey/difficult to obtain)


- Cannot be shared
- Only comes in one size, but there is still a lot you can do if not for...
- 100 Furnishing slots
- Scrolling through the list everytime to enter a friend's apartment can be a pain
- No gardening? (I'm not certain about this as I don't do any gardening either way)
- Lack of a neighborhood feeling, apartments don't get a whole lot of visitors either.

Houses
+ Comes in three different sizes
+ Every plot has a unique scenery
+ You have a garden for gardeny things?
+ You can decorate/customise the exterior as you see fit
+ Shareable
+ Depending on whose in your ward, it can feel like living in a neighborhood


- Some housing spots are a bit far from the marketboard
- Ugly neighbors can obliterate your landscape
- Non-refundable (unless using the demolition timer)
- Limited number of houses:
-- Demolition timer; because of the issue above, you have to login at least once every 45 days which means you're paying rent via subscription.
-- Lack of a permanent solution
-- Placard clicking game

Apartments:
+ Never Expires. It's always there.
+ Easy access to the MB/Retainers
+ Single room to decorate / affordable to decorate
+ Cheaper option than a house

- Limited Gardening
- No Outdoor Space
+ Makes a good storage room when/if you get a house :)


Houses:
+ Different sizes available
+ Outdoor space
+ More homier feeling
- Sometimes hard to get
- More space / more decorations / more cost
- Expiring timer if you're inactive, unsubbed, or never visit your house.
+ Avoid the "random purchase timer" if you ever decide to move or upgrade

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Originally Posted by JWag12787

Apartments:
+ Never Expires. It's always there.
+ Easy access to the MB/Retainers
+ Single room to decorate / affordable to decorate
+ Cheaper option than a house

- Limited Gardening
- No Outdoor Space
+ Makes a good storage room when/if you get a house :)


Houses:
+ Different sizes available
+ Outdoor space
+ More homier feeling
- Sometimes hard to get
- More space / more decorations / more cost
- Expiring timer if you're inactive, unsubbed, or never visit your house.
+ Avoid the "random purchase timer" if you ever decide to move or upgrade

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Aside from the cheap items you buy from the material supplier, I crafted everything in my house. Decorating my house didn't cost me anything but time.

You gathered your own materials too? That's been one of my hurdles.


Sadly, I'm still low, so I had to buy alot of the decorations </3

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Originally Posted by Alyanna_Elingval

Aside from the cheap items you buy from the material supplier, I crafted everything in my house. Decorating my house didn't cost me anything but time.

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Some folks are allergic to crafting, and would literally rather stab their eyes out than spend the time/effort/gil to level it lol.

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Originally Posted by JWag12787

You gathered your own materials too? That's been one of my hurdles.


Sadly, I'm still low, so I had to buy alot of the decorations </3

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Yeah, I have miner and botanist levelled.

I think the mistake people make is that they don't do things together, or when the can really some benefit from them so it seems like more of a grind.

I levelled miner and all of the smithing jobs together, along with a DOW job. Then I did botany along with carpenter, weaver and alchemy. Even did desynthing on Goldsmith, I made things and then desynthed them. Since I was always changing up what I was doing it wasn't as much of a grind. Plus when you're making your own gear, weapons, saving up for a house, etc, it feels more like you're working towards something vs powerleveling. Doing it this way also reduces the money you spend on it to practically nothing.

I figure it's probably harder once you've played through the game and try to go back after the fact and grind the jobs up.

I had a medium house. I intentionally let it auto demo and bought an apartment instead.

I barely used my house for anything anyway. Everything I did in my house I could do in an apartment. Only no auto demo to worry about.

I got tired of wanting to take a break from the game but having to log in to keep my house.

I clearly prefer apartments.

Houses, for sure. I have an apartment but I never use it. It's nice for storage but that's about it. Houses are better for my wants/needs.

I have a house but if SE upgrades apartments to a better form of instanced housing having massive vertical and horizontal apartment space with a larger indoor gardening capability and a scenic balcony following day and night cycle and weather conditions, as well as a more aesthetically pleasing apartment building and sorroundings, plus the current apartment feature that renders it safe from auto demolition, i will give up my house.:cool::cool::cool:

Yes. Furnishing.

I enjoy decorating in general so both appeal to me. It's nice to have the larger space with more freedom to design but apartments present a challenge in trying to create an interesting environment with more limited room and items. If I was forced to take one over the other, I'd have to go with house because I'm always intercross gardening and I can section off part of the house when I'm looking for that small space decorating challenge.

I do feel like a lot of players don't give apartments a fair chance. General improvements to housing since their introduction (item limits doubled, better variety of furnishings and the ability to create loft areas) have made them a much more viable option.

I recently unlocked housing, and lucked into a cottage in Lavender Hills on my third time checking for openings.

I made good use of the available space, both upstairs and down. The upstairs is my workshop, swapping in benches when needed. The downstairs is a social gathering area, with an indoor pool, couches, and a bearskin rug before the fireplace.

But to answer the OP’s question, aside from customizing my plot, I needed a garden for growing otherwise rare crafting mats.

If apartments had a terrace that included the ability to place a garden, then I might have considered that, had I not found a cottage fairly quickly.

At the same time, even if apartments had such a terrace, I would still prefer the house because it feels more immersive being nestled in amongst a number of other “properties."

I have both and prefer houses. I like having a yard to decorate, and a neighborhood (even if tumbleweeds blow across the empty roads). I don’t like the warp in/warp out mechanic of the apartments; I like being able to see how people decorated (or didn’t) their houses.

I like being able to craft in my yard, be in a space that is still “mine” and trot down to the MB/Summoning bell with no load screen.

The first thing I did when I came back to the game was grab a cottage in LB. I accept that I can’t leave the game again so I can keep my house. It’s value priced even when I only play for a few hours most days a week.

Houses. More space to breathe, higher item limits.

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