Free Company Housing, Not Player Housing

[Talouin]

I am very disappointed with the Player Free Company Housing system that is being implemented. This system effectively makes it so that only a relatively small group of players can use the housing system. From time of launch, myself and a friend have been saving Gil for the promise that a Player Housing system was coming soon.

It's great that over 400 items are being implemented and that crafters and gatherers will be receiving an influx of stuff to do. With that said, it sucks that your average player is going to be able to interact only with the creation of these items but not with any application of their use. The market for crafters is going to be smaller than it has to be too. This housing system is Free Company Housing, not Player Housing. The only players that will interact with the non item creation aspects of it are the FC Leader or FC Officers.

I sincerely hope that SquareEnix does not decide to ditch Player Housing in exchange for a Player Rooming system. The ability to be assigned / manage / create your own room within a Free Company house up to six months away from now is not interesting to me. I can understand how it may be interesting to some people, but I do not see it as a realistic alternative to actually possessing your own space. A room within a Free Company House can be (potentially) taken away on the whim of the people that manage the FC Home.

Player Housing is a minimum of 6 months away, if it is ever implemented. Is anyone else disappointed by this?

[Nuinn]

I wish we'd get them at the same time but I guess 6 months will pass, eventually.... in.... ummm... 6 months ~__~ (brain!) Why would they ditch individual player housing, though? They developed it already, just fine tuning it o_o The FC houses will serve for testing how the housing system in general works.

[joshdavis271]

Player houseing will come as soon as they are sure it won't tear up the servers, The fc houseing will test this, they will fine tune it and eventually do individual housing.

[Arriverderci]

Who isn't?
The fact that FC comes before personal housing is hilarious.
I just want to snazz up my house...Thinking Personal housing was coming in 2.1 had my hopes up quite a bit.
:/

[Talouin]

It was in the most recent live letter. The issue is which one they want to implement first. Patch 2.2 is going to bring either Player Rooming or Player Housing. Given that 2.2 is likely 6 months away, if SE selects for Player Rooming that implies that the actual Player Housing system would be in Patch 2.3 at the earliest... which is likely 9 months to a year away.

Quote from the live letter below:

1:48:22
Q: Will you be able to have individual rooms in your free company house?

A: We are planning to have this after patch 2.2, but we'd like to decide whether we implement individual rooms or individual housing based on server capacity after we implement housing. However, we are planning for both. We'd like you all to be able to build a cool personal space for yourselves.

[joshdavis271]

The player rooms will most likely be first, to cater to the guilds.

[Doki]

Unless they offer attractive incentives to dump gil into a house, like actually raising a chocobo for use in game proper, I really do not see the reason to invest so much development time in this stuff.

[Tonka]

As much as I'd like my own house...the idea of having our own rooms in the FC house sounds really great. Just more incentive to have a hub to see your FC buddies more often.

EDIT: But I guess not everyone is in a FC so I suppose there's that.

[IvoryFox]

As much as I'd like my own house...the idea of having our own rooms in the FC house sounds really great. Just more incentive to have a hub to see your FC buddies more often.

EDIT: But I guess not everyone is in a FC so I suppose there's that.

I bet you think you're so special!

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Who isn't?
The fact that FC comes before personal housing is hilarious.
I just want to snazz up my house...Thinking Personal housing was coming in 2.1 had my hopes up quite a bit.
:/

not hilarious, it makes sense. FC housing will help test to see what needs to be tweaked and/or added to make player housing work. It is a much better alternative, then to have then release both FC and player housing right now, and have everything go to hell.