SE's housing system doesn't favor anybody...

[Zarabeth]

I wasn't a FFXI player, but I did have friends that played it and wasn't it instanced housing in FFXI? Why change the system?

I was an ffxi player and the "housing" was an inn room in your home town. One room. No outside at all. You could invite people into your room but they had to be in party with you and if you left they got tossed out. We had flower pots to grow things in. No gardens and definitely no crossbreeding and results were rng based. Basically what an apartment is now but smaller.

[Skivvy]

I was an ffxi player and the "housing" was an inn room in your home town. One room. No outside at all. You could invite people into your room but they had to be in party with you and if you left they got tossed out. We had flower pots to grow things in. No gardens and definitely no crossbreeding and results were rng based. Basically what an apartment is now but smaller.

XI housing actually now has a second story, patio option, and then your mog garden which is an outdoor (beach front!) instance which gives access to 3 garden patches and various nodes you can collect from. This is also where your monster raising takes place.

Yes, it is outdated, and each room itself is the size of an inn room(aside from the garden area which is larger), but you get so much more functionality. And every character gets this included with the sub.