Personal house

[Enkidoh]

Servers with smaller populations may still have lots left, which leads to this elitist "you should just switch servers" mentality some people have. The lack of houses wouldn't really be a problem though if it was simply side content for fun with no actual bearing on gameplay. Unfortunately, SE has decided to lock certain content behind owning a FC or personal house, (at the moment, raising a chocobo beyond rank 10 or dying it's feathers a different colour), and soon this will only get worse once Heavensward is released, where the player needs to build an airship to access new expansion areas and participate in upcoming content (airship battles?) - which SE has said can only be done by using a basement attached to a house.

Now, if they brought in an alternative means to access this content (like, a communal chocobo stable for raising chocobos without a house, or an airship workshop run by Cid to build player airships), this would solve this potential problem. But right now, as it stands on Legacy servers like Balmung where there are no free plots at all, there will be the very real risk that a significant portion of the player community will be locked out permanently of certain content -not a good thing for a game that is selling itself as a game for casual players.

Either way, I really hope Yoshi and the development team have another look at this serious issue and find ways to address it, if not by adding more wards then maybe alternative means like the ideas I suggested.

[Songi]

Even the server I'm on has no housing plots left for sale. Yup, it's about time for them to add more plots. :P

[stuscott]

Coeurl has medium and large lots available

[Aerowaffle]

Let me ask this is there any servers with large houses for sale?

Jenova has plenty of lots open. There's a medium I have my eye on to upgrade to (from the small) for 9.3mil.

But yes, housing seems to be a problem (especially on large servers). But even on low-pop servers that have plenty of open spots, the houses that are purchased are ghost shacks.

Most don't have outdoor furnishings besides the chocobo stable, and I only have about a 1/50 chance of actually seeing someone when I near my house or at the MB.

[Elmeron]

I've honestly given up on the hope that I will ever have a house... It's just too bloody damn expensive and I hate crafting, always have in every MMORPG I've played, so I basically only get gil if I am willing to grind soul bonding for materia (something so mind numbingly boring that I only do it when I'm drinking... thus successfully obtaining numb mind status *cough*). I don't really do soul bond grinding very often as I have work 5 days a week, and so I don't want to spend the little bit of playing time I actually do have, doing that horrible task (or having a hangover at work lol). So the only other option I can think of is to sell gear I guess.

I honestly think housing should be instanced. I almost never even see anyone and rarely talk to people when I go to my free company's house. RP can still be enjoyed in instanced housing plots, it's done in RIFT, and I don't see the big deal in it being done in FFXIV too.

[Virtuso]

I find the whole housing debacle quite sad. On the one hand they clearly put a lot more thought/time/energy into designing XIV's housing system. On the other hand it feels vastly inferior in terms of actual enjoyment by the player base compared to XI. The neighborhoods are pretty but empty. You can customize the interior more but there's no real point to ever checking in on your home.

I LOVED my mog house in XI. Was proud of it despite everyone having one. My place in XIV, while more difficult to get just feels "meh" when I walk in. They used to hype the hell out of housing pre-launch. Yet now it feels like their design crashed and burned so their just pretending it doesn't exist anymore.

[Kaizlu]

"It's your fault for not playing on a less crowded server. Get over it or go somewhere else." seems to be the official (lack of) response.

I'm with you on wanting my own house, though.

Don't forget to add "It's your fault for starting to play the game after the initial rush was over, you had time to plan since 1.0"

[Fenral]

Don't forget to add "It's your fault for starting to play the game after the initial rush was over, you had time to plan since 1.0"

Right. And that reminds me: I almost forgot, "How dare you to try and join your friends on an overly crowded server."

Silly me.

[Sicno]

With the way they implemented the subdivisions I thought it left the door open to inject more subdivisions easily and more often.

But instead of adding more plots I would prefer for inactive owners to free those plots. That would also help some wards to stop being ghost towns and having actual people on them.

[SummerSkye]

Our FC house is enough for me. I am on a high population server and all the lots are taken, but our FC is active and there is a lot of activity at our FC house...and our in game neighborhood for that matter. I guess what I am saying is, even if I had a house, I would be socializing at my FC's house anyway. It is a large house, with all the bells and whistles and it is good enough for me! I bought one of the personal rooms and that is where my toon crashes at night.

I doubt the powers that be deem any housing related issues a "serious" issue anyway, as the whole thing is basically an optional minigame within the game anyway.