No FC room, no personal house... big deal??

[Niwashi]

So imagine if the houses were lower price like he said, there is a 95% chance you wouldn't of gotten a house because your above post would of been seconds.

Even if you logged out in the 3 home cities someone also has did the same, which would mean all this fuss over high prices wouldn't of mattered if they were low prices as well.

If the system were set up properly, then the prices could have been set reasonably as well. The real problem is they set up a housing system with a limited number of available plots. Personal housing requires a system that allows as many houses as there are players. Any issues with the pricing are secondary to that. They have to fix the main problem in availability before fixing the price problem would be meaningful. (But eventually, they need to fix both problems.)

[NyarukoW]

...The real problem is they set up a housing system with a limited number of available plots. Personal housing requires a system that allows as many houses as there are players. ...

The question is why is availability a problem? Why don't people want to share the FC houses? What is so wrong with sharing and working together? Why is it we hear about people buying up 4 small houses instead of sharing and building a FC that can buy the 1 big one?

I would really hate it if the house became lonely and empty with no one going there. And before you know it 35 days, the FC might be around but their houses are all going defunct and getting reclaimed because no one uses them.

[vp_cmc]

The question is why is availability a problem? Why don't people want to share the FC houses? What is so wrong with sharing and working together? Why is it we hear about people buying up 4 small houses instead of sharing and building a FC that can buy the 1 big one?

I would really hate it if the house became lonely and empty with no one going there. And before you know it 35 days, the FC might be around but their houses are all going defunct and getting reclaimed because no one uses them.

Because of gardening for example. Your fc leader can easily throw away all crops that you've planted and was growing for several days before. Or any member with sufficient rights.

Oh, and you should have rights in FC to do gardening and\or stables.

[RakaMaimhov]

Why is it we hear about people buying up 4 small houses instead of sharing and building a FC that can buy the 1 big one?

The person in question who bought 4 houses actually also has 4 rank 6+ Free companies all with houses already.

According to several people I've talked to, 1 person bought up 4 houses on our server alone while they were still available.

This is referring to the same person as above, and I can confirm they have 4 houses. They are in the same ward as a friend in my FC. :3

I've got nothing against the player with 8+ total houses. They're a nice person. I personally think it's a bit unfair that they can take advantage of the limited housing this way at the disadvantage of other players. That's a LOT of gardening space.

[HeroSamson]

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I believe SE needs to scrap the idea after 2.4 and stop wasting time on housing and produce more content.

If this is the way the community is going to act over a house then SE should wait a later date.
I keep seeing people saying gardening and the chocobo stable

Well then SE should just give you guys gardening in your INN rooms in town and chocobo ranch or something like they did in FF7 and let people leave their chocobos there and color them.

Too me the small house I got is useless its only there to play dress up if anything it was a huge gil waste I make no gil off gardening what you spend on seed and soil because market is flooded.

pretty soon after those plots get houses all the chocobo food and coloring foods will probably be around 50 gil a piece lol the one who cares about the house is my woman

But it won't make sense because furnishing couldn't be used that is crafted which would make the price drop.

SE wasn't really thinking ahead on this and why I say scrap and bring it back a later date.

[polyphonica]

Well then SE should just give you guys gardening in your INN rooms in town and chocobo ranch or something like they did in FF7 and let people leave their chocobos there and color them.

Actually, during the 14-hour broadcast, they did mention that they were planning on providing a way for people to access the chocobo training features even without a house. So I suspect this is actually something that is in the works. If they could do this and provide a way for people to garden either within inn rooms or personal rooms in FC housing, that would probably help quell some of the current frustration with the lack of space while they work to expand capacity.

[Farah]