FFXIV Request: Mog houses/Private residences

[Artius]

Since we are on the topic of housing in an MMORPG, I feel the need to include a link to one of Greg Dean's recent rants (Feb 10th) on housing in an MMORPG. I have to say, he has put a LOT of thought behind this one.
http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/110210.html

I would love to see housing in some form that is not an instanced room. I would be willing to settle for an apartment, as long as I was not "insta-teleported" to it so I could at least customize my door/window/front wall.

[Far]

i think that most of that would be a great idea, im a little on the fence about hiring NPCS to do that work as long as its a 1 time fee and the walls could get costly having to install wall by wall but over all i like it and even think you should be able to add stories to your house, as for it being an instance im all for it as it would keep areas lower in lag and almost infinite room than if you had to compete with other players to find plots of land to set up a huge house on

[Nephera]

Since we are on the topic of housing in an MMORPG, I feel the need to include a link to one of Greg Dean's recent rants (Feb 10th) on housing in an MMORPG. I have to say, he has put a LOT of thought behind this one.
http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/110210.html

I would love to see housing in some form that is not an instanced room. I would be willing to settle for an apartment, as long as I was not "insta-teleported" to it so I could at least customize my door/window/front wall.

I got a little annoyed when he singled out PSO for doing the apartment thing, you were on a space ship, I'm surprised they didnt just say you all slept in the cargo bay.

my major problem with purchasing real-estate in a non instance is that it comes at the cost of upkeep or risk losing the house, with the economy being almost entirely player driven it is not guaranteed how much money you are going to make beyond leves, and if you can make rent off leves, the more market savvy will have their houses paid off for years.

But besides that, sometimes players have to stop playing for a number of reasons and just cant make payments like that and nothing stings like losing something you worked on for reasons that were beyond your control.

(again i'm not against payments, just losing the house entirely for not paying, rather than access to it.)

Ps. Psion man your proposal is twice as good and ambitious as anything i was thinking up in regards to player housing.