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

[Kasathar]

Getting a house is an absolute waste of money in this game and an excessive luxury. I understand people saving money to "decorate" a house because they like decorating and stuff but that is only a choice when a house doesn't cost you the absurd amounts it does in this game.

I wish houses were more than just a mere vault of useless stuff, I wish there was a purpose to them beyond being a pre-made barbie house. As it satnds now, I would save those millions of Gil to get useful stuff done in the game, like upgrading the relics or leveling up my crafts and get up to 2 star skill.

[MageBlack]

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I would also like to add to my previous post that once players realize there are restrictions on avaliability to any type of content it automatically becomes a Hardcore/RMT battle in which most casual players will lose out if they are not right on the ball. I see in PF people selling pots of land for more than they are worth because they bought extra plots just to turn around and sell them.

Someone else had suggested that Housing should be limited to one account per server, even that would help out (but not solve the problem ultimately). I like some of the solutions posed by people in this thread, Like Tiggy's Option C on the previous page. but in the end it just feels like a bandaid on a system that needs to be overhauled. now, let me add to that last statement.

I feel it is entirely in SE's power and capabilities to overhaul the system and give us something much more functional for us and for them. I saw what Yoshi-P did with 1.0, at the behest of the players, all they way to 1.23 and all that with a broken core to the game. He has since rebuilt the core of the game and is almost finished all the core systems they planned out. So I'm sure that with a better core to the game that Yoshi-P can work better with, possible big changes to something liek this could be achieved. At this stage I don't expect anything to be done, not till probably mid way through 3.X expansion. What I would like is maybe a second look by the devs at the way the personal housing is implemented (remember FC is fine as is, imo) and some official response, even if it is "we will look into it". The last official response was pretty much "Its a reward for those who put in the effort and its designed this way"

All I was intending with this OP was to put it back on the radar of the devs. As a wonderful byproduct of doing this, there has been some good conversation and some interesting ideas proposed. Hopefully some good food for thought for the devs. Heck I would even be happy if they created a "suburb" style "Small Plot Only" instanced housing that gives you a small plot and the surrounding yard as something added in at a later date. Just something.

[NyarukoW]

Getting a house is an absolute waste of money in this game and an excessive luxury. ..

And it does not help with clearing content or gearing up. In fact it distracts drastically from that. Want a tatami mat, got a mil? Nearly 1/2 the price of the small lot. LOL.

Better use that gil to meld det4 materia on your relic weapon . The house is just a fancy trophy case to show off more trophies. It is all vanity exponentiated, and it will cost you lots and lots of gil. Housing as in the FC house, FC room, inn room etc. are easily accessible housing for the vast majority players and everyone can participate easily. If you want you own exclusive personal house, that is extreme vanity and should NOT be handed out, just like not everyone can get the blue bird or the fat cat minions.

And yet as it stands unless players insist on crowding in on already crowded servers like Balmung and Excalibur, there are still plenty of available small lots. There is either not enough demand, or people are not willing to put up the 1.8 mil for the small lots to demonstrate their demand.