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

[Skivvy]

Once again I'll say this. FFXI had/has an inn room that can only be accessed in your home town (usually you weren't at the home town for long, and had to pay for teleports to get back there unless you were a WHM or wanted to death-port assuming you left your home point in that town which was rare). There was no outside yard, there was only the one small room. There were no gardens. There were no workshops. You had a room, in which you could place and rearrange furniture which doubled as storage. Storage you could only access in that one room in that one town. Please stop trying to make it sound like we had awesome instanced housing as that was not even remotely the case.

XI housing is obviously dated, but at least use correct facts. Moghouses could be accessed from the major cities (like in XIV), although your furnishings would only appear when in your "home town". There is a patio, there is a 2nd floor, and there is a rather large outside gardening/mining/logging/monster rearing instance attached to it. Best of all, this is available to all characters, not a fraction of the player base.

Now with that said, XI is an old game, so I don't think anyone is shocked that their housing system is outdated. You'd also think it would be quite easy to create a new housing system in a modern MMO that surpassed it on every level. However, here we are in 2017, with a housing system that is insanely limited. As is it now, a huge number of players are currently locked out of gardening/cross-breeding, workshop content, chocobo access, etc.

For a subscription game, and one with XIV's play-style, it's a pretty major failing to not be able to provide housing for all players.

[SendohJin]

XI housing is obviously dated, but at least use correct facts... There is a patio, there is a 2nd floor, and there is a rather large outside gardening/mining/logging/monster rearing instance attached to it. Best of all, this is available to all characters, not a fraction of the player base.

Those things only came when most people already quit. There was no 2nd floor or outside during WotG launch. Correct facts is important but not if you don't understand them. When XIV hits the same population loss that XI did after WotG the servers will be able to handle housing for every active character.

[Tridus]

Those things only came when most people already quit. There was no 2nd floor or outside during WotG launch. Correct facts is important but not if you don't understand them. When XIV hits the same population loss that XI did after WotG the servers will be able to handle housing for every active character.

With what budget to make all those changes? Cut your sub numbers drastically and the development budget is going down, as is the server budget (they can yank some stuff out of the clusters to save money).