The way housing should be

[Jennika]

Funny how they didn't instance one of the few things a lot of players wouldn't mind being instanced. Instead we get a ton of instanced battle content and semi open world housing. I'm only half serious I guess, just a stupid thought that crossed my mind.

[Dark-Saviour]

With a Personal Apartment they can obtain somthing equel to a Small House but since it is a personal Apartment it will be limited to in door Housing items.

Why restrict it to this? Why not an instanced plot off in a secluded glade, on a remote island, amidst the dunes, etc. with a full lot and the ability to use outdoor furnishings too?
There's no reason an instance would have to be indoor only. And if its an instance for just one player, there's also no reason the indoor and outdoor bits have to be separate instances.

There's no reason it should be half-assed at this point.

[Zileth]

Or SE can look at how NcSoft did AION's set up which they kinda have started a bit

[EdwinLi]

Why restrict it to this? Why not an instanced plot off in a secluded glade, on a remote island, amidst the dunes, etc. with a full lot and the ability to use outdoor furnishings too?
There's no reason an instance would have to be indoor only. And if its an instance for just one player, there's also no reason the indoor and outdoor bits have to be separate instances.

There's no reason it should be half-assed at this point.

It is for lower gil revenue players. A Personal Apartment is a apartment after all which is more for indoor things and not known for out door stuff. However, a balcony can also be added for the Apartment building for out door stuff but since it is a apartment build the balcony will not be big as the Housing yards.

A Private Island can also be added in the game but the price will need to balance out considering that it is a Private Island for the player that owns the island only.

[Illya]

The way housing should be can be seen by traveling 15 years back in time and seeing FFXI at launch. It was that simple, and Squenix got it right 15 years ago.

[Nalien]

The way housing should be can be seen by traveling 15 years back in time and seeing FFXI at launch. It was that simple, and Squenix got it right 15 years ago.

They wanted to do something different here, and that is give us a neighborhood, rather than a closed off box. I really cannot fault them for that, it's a really nice idea. They've just failed to realize that concept in a workable manner, that's the only problem here.

Honestly; just work on a new version of the three Inn rooms with a balcony that can fit a few things (including a rail plant pot which is equal to a small garden plot). We'd all have a nice room we can customize, with a nice view, in an easily reached location, with a garden equivalent. This is exactly what they should have been working on since implementing Private Rooms, instead of locking Private Rooms behind people who already have a house.

Having housing wards and what is effectively a Mog House is really the best solution here. Housing wards were a nice idea, but it just isn't going to fulfill the demand, unless they have some miracle planned, they really need to start work on Private Inn Rooms. Some people might think that makes Private Rooms redundant, but I think the idea behind those is that it's technically part of your Company House.

Also, one other thing houses should be is fun. Once you've set up furniture they kinda stop being that... Hope the Golden Saucer gives us some new furniture and mini-games we can place in houses/rooms, having a Free Company based Triple Triad tournament would be pretty cool. An actually reason to play around in a house would be great. Gardening and Chocobo Raising are both done outside after all.

[silentwindfr]

i think too that the inn room must be allowed, throught quest or other means, to get upgraded with a balcony and the capacity to decorate it.
even if i feel they more need to give us acces to the civilian quarter that exist in every city already and use it like a place where people can buy a condo with balcony. it's not different from the mog house, indeed it's instanced, but i'm tired of all the people that complaint about instanced stuff, when it allows everybody to share the same game with the same access to the whole content of the game.

[Duelle]

I posted a thread about this yesterday.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ive-To-Housing

Same here.

[Hayden]

Price is not the problem, the inability for all players to access this content IS.

So the rooms are expensive, if there was a way all or MOST players who put forth the effort could actually get a personal house none of us would have much to complain about. But, for most of us even if we had the 5-10 million gill for a small plot at the time of the patch, they were sold out before most of us were off work, let alone downloaded the patch.

We waited since launch, and THIS is the best they could come up with? What about Future FC's who want to buy land for their guild halls? Sucks to be them I guess right?

They pushed back 2.0 because they wanted it to be PERFECT, or as close to perfect as they could. They should have kept individual player housing on hold until they could deliver something that most players at least stood a chance of enjoying. Because that is the bottom line, most of us are sore out of luck.

[Seoulstar]

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Now I'm confused. Weren't prices the reason people were complaining in the first place? Because they're not really affordable unless you're rich or with a big FC?