Balmung is Homeless on Christmas' Eve. Is this really what you wanted, Yoshida-san?

[Sayura_]

Asheron's Call - released in ~2000, open-world easily obtainable housing of various sizes. I wasn't even max level, had no idea what I was doing since it was my first mmo and I still got the largest sized house.

SWG - your own FREE space yacht and easily obtainable open-world houses of various sizes as well as player cities. Only certain decorations were expensive.

SWTOR - your own FREE space ship.

Wildstar (coming spring 2014) - your own plot of land starting at level ~14 which you can expand and grow.

I could go on..

[Sunarie]

Asheron's Call - released in ~2000, open-world easily obtainable housing of various sizes. I wasn't even max level, had no idea what I was doing since it was my first mmo and I still got the largest sized house.

SWG - your own FREE space yacht and easily obtainable open-world houses of various sizes as well as player cities. Only certain decorations were expensive.

SWTOR - your own FREE space ship.

Wildstar (coming spring 2014) - your own plot of land starting at level ~14 which you can expand and grow.

I could go on..

Could add Ultima Online and Shadowbane to that list as well for "old school" rpgs (and I have never once seen anyone say you didn't have to work for things in UO). Both had housing that was well within affordable to players who didn't spend a lot of time getting gil/gold/currency, or playing. Space, and whether you kept your house, are up for debate, but not actually getting it.

[FenHin]

Personal housing or Guild housing?