Why can't we all have housing? does SE have to skimp on servers that much?

[Ikeda]

I'm still trying to figure out why I should want a house. It seems like a gil sink with no real purpose.

FC housing will be required for chocobo stables to raise your own chocobos (seemingly) and for airship building which supposedly your own built airship may be required to enter certain future content somewhere down the line. But yes you are right, currently the housing's "secret" purpose is as a massive gil sink to fight inflation.

I personally think the housing system would of been much better implemented if they used a sort of progression system for it. You could start out with a small piece of land and a small house and over time earn enough gil to upgrade the size of your land and house. Right now I have enough money to buy a small house but refuse to do it because I'd eventually like to get the large one. If there was a progression system, the small houses wouldn't feel like such a waste of money.

[Gesser]

Money is rapidly becoming easier & easier to obtain (i.e. Challenge Log)... it's not hard to earn the funds in an appropriate time-frame, especially for a Small Estate.

Also, this' FC Housing. Personal Housing is coming soon which will be remarkably cheaper.

[DoubleT]

not even that fun.... can't make jump puzzles, no interesting buffs or mechanics... just... purely... aesthetic.

i had fun gathering rare materials an making the cool furniture for my fc's house, we have a few jump puzzles inside an outside, an there is buffs from furniture for crafters an there is plenty of FC buffs for everyone else

furniture that plays music, stuff that glows, thats all pretty cool, gardening is currently one of the most profitable things in the game, choco breeding is comin soon, i think our housing is doing pretty well.

an there is one thing that this game's housing has over wildstar... graphics! i cant downgrade

[Ulathskullsplitter]

From what dev have said it definitely seems that the servers are what's holding back housing. Like wildstar and other games I think everyone should be able to have a personal house without breaking the bank. We shouldn't be punished and have to pay a ton of gil because SEs servers can't handle everyone having a house.

I also hope things like a chocobo stable aren't exclusive to FC housing and we will be able to have them in our personal houses.

[ThinkPInk]

I'm not sure if adding wards are a necessity right now, not all plots are filled even on Tonberry, an ultra populated server.

Increasing the relevance of FC housing and what it can offer seems to be more important than simply adding new wards.

That is the case on your server but not all servers are like yours with available plots. I'm on Balmung NA LEGACY and we have about 2 small plots left in Ul'dah. Every other plot is gone on my server. In the future please speak for yourself or your server alone especially if you don't know the condition of other peoples servers. I think it's only fair to allow those who have not purchased land the opportunity to do so. Adding additional wards should take priority over adding features to housing until more of the playerbase is allowed to experience this feature.

[ReiszRie]

From what dev have said it definitely seems that the servers are what's holding back housing. Like wildstar and other games I think everyone should be able to have a personal house without breaking the bank. We shouldn't be punished and have to pay a ton of gil because SEs servers can't handle everyone having a house.

I also hope things like a chocobo stable aren't exclusive to FC housing and we will be able to have them in our personal houses.

I do not agree, I belong to the camp who believes that housing should be difficult and expensive to obtain.

[ReiszRie]

That is the case on your server but not all servers are like yours with available plots. I'm on Balmung NA LEGACY and we have about 2 small plots left in Ul'dah. Every other plot is gone on my server. In the future please speak for yourself or your server alone especially if you don't know the condition of other peoples servers. I think it's only fair to allow those who have not purchased land the opportunity to do so. Adding additional wards should take priority over adding features to housing until more of the playerbase is allowed to experience this feature.

with 2.3, defunct FC housing will also be removed, potentially opening up more plots.

I did mention that i'm "not sure" and I specifically mentioned Tonberry. Are you certain that on Balmung all plots are taken, including M & L sized plots?

[Diavolo]

What is the purpose of anything in the game?
To have fun and kill time.

Someone that spends 3 hours decorating their house has fulfilled as much purpose as someone who has run dungeons for 3 hours.
It's all relative to how someone wants to spend their time.

That wouldn't particularly fulfill me. If I have a house, I want it to be because I can do something there that I can't do otherwise.

[HakuroDK]

Aesthetics are half the fun for me. Having my own house in the game would be absolutely wonderful as I display all of my wonderful things in perfect harmony.

[Ampheni]

I am not saying a word when I have managed to earn all the necessary gils I needed for a small house on my own... But yeah this is fc housing meant to be a combined effort from multiple members rather than trying to get one alone. I'd say wait and see what personal housing is gonna be like before ranting about SE skimping on servers.