Why is Housing Such a High Priority?

[Mijin]

In my opinion housing and vanity gear is more important than other stuff.
It silly to use "important stuff" since whats important is up to the player

Well I never used the term "important stuff", I realize what's important is suggestive. I just asked if housing is that important to everyone.

I'm not sure how you think housing has been a development time sink.

After they released it the only thing they have done is flipped a switch and added new expensive wards, flipped another code switch and allowed individual players with pockets lined with gold to buy housing as well.

Sure must have taken up alot of time to do that.

I know you played in 1.0 because I remember your sig, so you are well aware of how much time they've spend on it during the production of 2.0 up through now. I'm not only speaking in regards to 2.38, so while I get that you are trying to be facetious, I honestly don't understand how you can believe that. The graphics, the concept art, the scenario design, the zones, the stress testing, the allocation of server space, etc. All of this took a considerable amount of time, and what my point is was it really worth it, and moving forward with the game do we really need to focus on housing that much more in the future?

Also, the point of my post wasn't really to argue how high of a priority it is; I just was wondering how many people consider it a priority at all. As for myself I couldn't care less about it.

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.

BTW, you can edit posts to bypass the 1000 character limit. :3

Yeah, but that's kind of my point, they made it that way because they want housing to feel important, they didn't have to design it that way.