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

[Gillionaire]

I feel like i'm being punished for not exploiting the gil markets like others did

Yes, usually when you CHOOSE to opt out of money making opportunities, often that leads to you having to cope with the consequences of not being able to purchase the things you'd like..
Don't say that like you had some moral obligation to pass up an opportunity to make some virtual currency..

So disregarding that 50 CUL is nowhere near "basic crafting", the Duty Roulette, Challenge Log, and Treasure Maps might make you 50k a day on average, and Ehcatl Sealant isn't exactly the hottest stuff on some more populated servers...

Look, I'm proud of you for capitalizing on a server market need but I don't think that's relevant to the discussion of what your average casual player experiences.

Well, considering the game as a whole.. CUL 1 star crafting is really basic. I don't know how casual you like to play your game, but it takes about 60 leve allowances and under 6 hours to get a crafting class to level 50. It's not nearly as time consuming as leveling up a combat class.

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.

Not exactly, new comers don't really have the chance to join full servers anyway, and new servers usually still have plenty of housing plots available. The numbers ARE dwindling every day and Jenova's about to run out of small plots on the main divisions and subdivisions have maybe a dozen or so left, but that's bound to be gone soon too. but if you're willing to work at it, you can still buy a house on the new servers. is it fair that you get to miss out on content because you started playing the game late? No, but it's unavoidable.. I never got the full experience in any of the pve content because everything is pretty much face roll and that's to be expected, I can't ask everybody to be restricted to i60 when going to labyrinth of the ancients.. and don't even get me started on Castrum and Praetorium..

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...

Ehh, buy a medium sized one then. Still plenty of those to go around.



I guess I find it hard to relate to all the woes of people on legacy servers because Jenova is quite empty and has a very expensive MB as well. But is there really nobody that's selling houses? Don't some people want to move away from that server? I imagine there would be a mass exodus every time new content patch arrives and there's hours of queue to just get in the game. Maybe SE failed to implement a successful free server transfer to alleviate the server loads..

But I must admit, way most people complain about housing, it sounds like they simply do not have enough gil to find a way around it (Pay triple to have person relinquish, buy a medium instead of small, etc.. ) In this case, OP seems to be in a bind that just simply sucks, but that has not been my usual interaction with people who say the rent is too damn high, which is why I often react in such a way.



If i may suggest one last attempt at getting a house before expansion (I imagine getting a house in expansion will only be more difficult for you
maybe find an FC or a person who owns the house that's thinking of transferring off of the server, or quitting the game altogether.

There's bound to be a few that plan on quitting once the expansion hits for whatever reason..

If you save up about 60 million gil I think you can pay the relinquish fee + medium plot.
Of course, if the person's just simply up and quitting or moving off the a different server their prices may be significantly lower..