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

[Tiggy]

That's just it, on many servers it isn't optional. It just isn't available.

The only thing that is required is the garden. Literally nothing else about the house is required at all. (Almost forgot choco raising but they've already confirmed that would move to porters so eventually a moot point, but for today it counts) If gardening was added to inns and personal rooms then the only valid reason to have a house would vanish and it would be entirely extra. Also notice I said SHOULD be like glamour and optional. So I never said they actually were. Reading comprehension! It was an hypothetical situation that I was saying we should try to get to. Not a comment about the current state of the game.

I would be OK with C as long as we then had access to stables, gardening and all the other features and, like you said, owning a house is nothing more than a luxury and something to show off. Sorry for such a rant but I'm terribly worried how this will affect future content as it is released, especially if we are getting chocobo racing in patch 2.5 (i dont actually expect it until 3.0 TBH) and I hope, for the sake of availability, the raising feature will be like it was in FFXI where it will be a stable somewhere in Heavensward/Ishgard that we talk to an NPC and then anyone can use it regardless of housing.

Chocobo raising is thankfully moving to porters soon so that's one part down. No work on gardening so far but I'm really hoping they just accept that they need to expand that system soon and give us room planters like XI had or at the very last window planters. Thankfully from what I remember reading the new chocobos for racing are separate from our existing ones. So I'm hoping the raising system will be based out of the saucer and available to all, but we gotta wait and see I guess.