Free Company Housing 2.1, your thoughts?

[BrucieBeats]

i hope those are pricing for just the plots of land... it would be a lot more fun to build up the entire house little by little, like you start off with some foundation, and you can start putting up a lv 1 house (that's just a crum bum tent), then progress it with more materials and crafting to a lv 2 house (made of sticks, like a rickety shack), and so on and so forth, til you progress to the piece de resistance house that looks like a celebrity home with marble flooring, persian rugs, exotic animal leather furnishing, indoor fountains, 4 bathrooms with full shower and bath with a toilet AND a bidet, a his and hers vanity sink, etc etc... you know what i mean? it would kinda take longer for casuals to build up to the nice big house, but also feel great to achieve it.

[Altanas]

I also hope these are just plot prices. I think it would be good for FC's to have to band together farming raw materials to actually build property. Will feel like much more of an achievement.

That said, I continue to find it strange FC housing is simply normal housing. I would have thought it more appropriate to have the planned housing zones for personal houses only, being a mini town.

That way SE could have created separate themed zones for FC housing so FCs. I would much rather build a castle or keep with my FC in the line of Coerthas, Maybe some FCs might want to roleplay being evil, creating underground lairs etc.

Afterall, once I build a house with my FC, I probably wont care to do the same thing again with my own house. Or, I wont care for my FC one anymore when I can use my own one and decorate it unrestricted.

[neverendingxsin]

Yeah because patch 2.1 totally won't have any new dungeons or endgame content.

I know that it will, but i'd still rather they be focused entirely on that instead of adding something silly like houses. What point do they serve exactly?

[Brevitic]

I know that it will, but i'd still rather they be focused entirely on that instead of adding something silly like houses. What point do they serve exactly?

Building large cannons to point at the neighbors.

[APilgrim]

I honestly could care less about Free Company housing. Was really excited about housing at first (even started saving up right after launch and set aside over a million gil on a retainer for it). But then found out it's FC housing and not individual housing coming with 2.1... and it'll be over half a year after 2.1 before individual housing might come out last I read.

Kind of bummed that it's not the other way around with individual housing coming out first - but I can see myself still playing by the time housing is fully implemented in-game so I guess it's something to still look forward to even if it will be awhile.

[Wobi]

I know that it will, but i'd still rather they be focused entirely on that instead of adding something silly like houses. What point do they serve exactly?

And some people do not care about the mindless grind for gear, don't rain on someone's parade here. There is a reason Minecraft has been so popular.

[Lobselvith]

To be honest I think this entire "housing" thing is a joke and they should be more focused on adding REAL content like more dungeons, more endgame, hardmore versions of dungeons, classes, etc, instead of housing. I mean really people you have a house in real life for a reason, why do you need a house in game?

you know they have more then 1 team working on content for FFXIV, and they already have housing planned out. so really no point in complaining.
They also have more hardmodes coming in 2.1, and more jobs later on. so there is nothing to worry about.

and if you don't want housing then you don't have to get housing.
but you'll miss a big part of the game when you can breed your chocobos and make a black chocobo/ faster mount. ;-)

[Hrist_Valkyrie]

To be honest I think this entire "housing" thing is a joke and they should be more focused on adding REAL content like more dungeons, more endgame, hardmore versions of dungeons, classes, etc, instead of housing. I mean really people you have a house in real life for a reason, why do you need a house in game?

Yeah! How dare other people who don't affect me have pleasing aesthetics. MMO's are serious business. How DARE this community have fun in their video game that they paid for and are currently subbed to.

[Kuvu]

i dont think the house's come with it the way it's gonna work from what i read in the live letter was your paying for the plot of land first threw auctions (hate that) so what ever free comp has the most gil can get it first (people who have been selling titan runs at 500k a pop) + they only have 30 land plots per server till they add more. then you have to buy the house to go on that plot of land from the video yoshi-p payed i think 850k for small house, they might change how much it is when it goes live tho

Where is the info about the 30 plots per server, or is that 30 plots per instance?

[Ryans]

750K - Small
5M - Medium
10M - Large

Just a quick thought on the matter. Don't know how realistic this is. I have a small Free Company, and we coudln't afford a medium one on this scale. Kind of hoping a medium would be 1.5 million or so. Probably dreaming

Didn't they say it's going to be an auction system to buy house plots? That would mean there is no set price for anything, the community would decide how much land is worth.

But... I know a lot of legacy players that could afford to buy a large plot with these recommended numbers. I'm not sure how the economy is doing on new servers, but a player can make a couple hundred thousand gil a day without much effort on my server. If they want the large plot to be an accomplishment, like I think they mentioned, it would need to be more gil than 10-20 people could earn in a day or two.