Personal house

[Zelas]

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.

Personal housing is akin to an optional mini-game, but FC housing isn't. But people having bought up all the houses keeps newer FCs from getting housing, so yeah. It IS a pretty serious problem.

[thunderbreak]

I'm just guessing here, but when the new housing areas launch, they'll sell out immediately because people have been saving up since 2.38 (personal housing).

They really need to make personal housing instanced, and leave the current housing to FCs only.

I don't know the technical stuff, but Wild Star seems to have instanced personal housing down pretty good.

[Fenral]

I don't know the technical stuff, but Wild Star seems to have instanced personal housing down pretty good.

Haven't touched it since beta, but it was a launch feature. Plot was given to you free when you reached your hub town (a personal floating island), building a house on it cost money, with bigger houses naturally costing more, and some styles requiring alternate currency (i.e. Wolf Marks/GC seals in FFXIV). Visitor access could be public, friends only, or a separate friends list called "neighbors," which also caused their houses to appear in the same area as yours.

But WildStar was spec'd for that style of housing from the beginning. FFXIV was spec'd for non-instanced housing, and thus even though their design was more or less a complete mistake on every level, they can't undo all the work they've already done and change it into something else.

[SarcasmMisser]

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*).

You have the means to get a house but just instantly dismiss the means as boring. Of course it's boring, but people got medium or even large houses that way. They put in the hard work, you basically want the carrot for hard work without actually doing the work.

[myahele]

My main gripe with houses is that certain things can only be grown in a garden.

As they say "the rich get richer"

[Matrinka]

We need slums under the main cities for us poor folk to live.

[Waeksyn]

I"m just glad that I got my "personal house" before SE released them - by solo leveling a FC up to level 6. It's really sad that housing has been so screwed up because there is great content that isn't accessible otherwise (gardening, choco raising, choco dying, decorating, ...). The new expansion will also introduce airship building but it's not clear to me if this will be possible in a personal house (despite it having a basement) or whether it will be FC only. Either way, I should be covered.

[Chihaya]

Originally SE did plan a way for unused plots to get reintroduced into circulation, but people complained and it was never implemented.
A non-instanced limited supply of housing without a method to put unused houses back into circulation - end up with all plots filled and a lot of the houses aren't even used.
Empty gardens, empty stables, or some even not furnished at all inside or outside.

I had always been in favor of the Aion housing system (I use Aion because it is also a non-instanced limited supply housing system).
It had a way of re-introducing houses back into the system and instead of ward system where each of the wards look the same, it was a huge open housing area map with different districts with different environment all in the same zone (plus a few houses in the normal outdoor area).

[TinyMonster]

I, for one, don't care for neighbours.. There's never anyone around! I just want a nice house to garden, decorate and just chill with my small group of friends. I am very disappointed on how they handled this, it's a feature that should be available to everyone.

I don't know maybe have free instanced houses for people like me, and keep the houses that has wards payable. You could even just have it instanced until you can afford the plot, and move it there when you have Gil's or when plots become available at least we get a damn house!

[LTEvil]

I, for one, don't care for neighbours.. There's never anyone around! I just want a nice house to garden, decorate and just chill with my small group of friends. I am very disappointed on how they handled this, it's a feature that should be available to everyone.

I don't know maybe have free instanced houses for people like me, and keep the houses that has wards payable. You could even just have it instanced until you can afford the plot, and move it there when you have Gil's or when plots become available at least we get a damn house!

Agreed. 10Char