The Housing Situation

[Fenral]

Ignorant question -- what benefit does owning a house have?

Chocobo stabling, 1-3 garden allotments (as many as 24 plants at once, and many rare items can only be obtained though gardening), and an extra dirt-cheap teleport option close to the city of your choice. Stabling is required to increase the level cap of your chocobo companion, as well as change its color.

Not "essential" features, but still an important part of the FFXIV experience.

But you can't just remove all the houses some people already have, and had to pay with time and hard work.

If that's the reason you've been defending the current system, then FULL STOP.

I don't think anyone is asking for anything to be taken from anyone else, just adding a new form of housing as an option for people who never got a shot at the housing wards. Adding new systems usually doesn't involve taking away from the old ones, though I'm sure someone will find a retort for that statement just for the sake of retorting.

If other games are capable of this, Final Fantasy XIV should be, too. It may not be a priority for the developers, for whatever idealized aesthetic reason they have, but we'd like it to be.