Hurray! Finally saved up 6mil for my personal house!

[Zantitrach]

For me, money was NEVER the issue, availability was.

Yes, yes it was. You did not have the gil to purchase the house when it came out. So, money WAS the issue.

[Whimsicalalien]

Grats, OP. And could I get some money makng tips? :3 I'm poor as dirt.

[Eye_Gore]

Grats, OP. And could I get some money makng tips? :3 I'm poor as dirt.

Find something cool and sell it on the MB, make sure you undercut by atleast 10% of the cheapest price. Gil in pocket.

[Alberel]

Person who does not start to work on making gil until well after housing is released is surprised that all the plots are gone and taken by people who wanted a house and started working on making gil when housing was announced.

Haven't we seen this thread before?

This is a bit of an idiotic response. By this reasoning anyone that joined the game after housing was released is not expected to be able to get a house?

SE really should have left the wards to FCs and given personal houses there own entirely instanced system. Anyone saying they don't have the resources to do that please look at every other MMO with instanced housing.

[Divine_Intervention]

DC universe f2p model was capable of giving every player a free house with some decent functionality. Why not FFXIV with it's subscription model? (And no, i'm not actually asking for a free house, i'm still happy to pay, i just mean the ability to do so).

[Aegis]

Fully-instanced housing is the way to go. Even on Balmung where essentially every plot on all wards are taken there is no 'community' to the housing wards. You may see people out and about, but Ul'dah/Mor Dhona are still where it's at for random chat with people.

Make it instanced, make it free (refund those who bought houses) and everyone's a winner. It's not hard. They've managed it with personal rooms, they managed it in XI for crying out loud.

The housing wards were an experiment that has failed. If you are working when housing wards are expanded on Balmung you will miss out on a small house again. It's not a question of gil, it's a question of huge demand caused by a throttled supply.

/still yet to see a housing system rival SWG's: Player-owned houses, cantinas, hospitals, rapid transport etc all in the open-world.

[Sadana]

All small houses are gone on Atomos, a supposedly LOW pop server. So, the "you're on a high pop server" argument doesn't hold up. :/ SE could've done this in a better way. Let's agree to that at least...

[Garlyle]

All small houses are gone on Atomos, a supposedly LOW pop server. So, the "you're on a high pop server" argument doesn't hold up. :/ SE could've done this in a better way. Let's agree to that at least...

If it is full, it's likely only very recent. It took a long, long time for small plots to fill up on Adamantoise, which is larger than Atomos by about 20 thousand people.

However, that brings up the point whereby we really do need constant addition of extra wards to support this system; whether it's a large server with heavy demand or a smaller serve, they will fill up in time, especially with no auto-vacating systems or similar in place.

[Tiggy]

Yes, yes it was. You did not have the gil to purchase the house when it came out. So, money WAS the issue.

On Balmung they once sold out within 15 minutes of being added. Money was not the issue. Availability was. You're making assumptions.

[rappa]

No more small house, my neighbourhood is empty. Full of small house, nobody buy the medium house in front of me and the large house at one side near my large one :/