Why is Housing Such a High Priority?

[Ashkendor]

I mean, housing is neat and all, and it's fun to make your own place, but seriously how important is it? I'm not saying that the progress should stop on the housing and land plots, but why is it such a high priority?

It's simple: a lot of content is gated through housing. Gardening and everything that comes with it, along with all of the new chocobo content. People want access to these things, so housing is the Big Deal™ right now. Personally, my FC has a Medium house already so we're not really worried about it but I can certainly see why people are in an uproar about the short supply of housing. Every last Small plot on my server was gone within a few hours of the servers coming online from the maintenance. The Mediums are starting to disappear too.

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