Ready to quit over housing.

[Harmonea]

If you want to decorate houses without yucky Other Humans, try The Sims.

I see this argument a lot - as if the existence of another game in which you can decorate houses invalidates any desire for housing in this one. These games are not mutually exclusive, do you know? You should see the Newcrest I'm working on.

Except you can't, because it's offline. No one can visit my neighborhoods there... but they can in FFXIV.

A house in the Sims can't bring me FFXIV gil, minions, or mounts, but here I can garden all the mandragoras, blood peppers, and royal ferns I like, and I can maintain a fleet of airships and submarines. A house in the Sims can't dye my FFXIV chocobo like a house or apartment here can. A house in the Sims requires me to buy terrible stuff packs I disagree with just to get that one cute curtain and the loveseat that matches the sofa from that other expansion, whereas in FFXIV I can just maintain a sub to a game I love anyway and keep up with the content. Furnishings in the Sims are all immediately available with no more work than clicking through a catalogue, while in FFXIV, I enjoy that I put in the effort to create or earn the currency and/or reputation to purchase every piece I could.

And most importantly, a house in the Sims isn't on Hydaelyn. I can't walk out of my door in Del Sol Valley, mount up, and race off into the horizon on some adventure in a story-rich world I love. I can't decide on a whim to try to duo T9 with the Sim who lives next door for that shiny pair of earrings.

OP is being silly in his tantrum about how he wants the housing system to be. There are houses elsewhere. Lots of them. The world visit system eliminates most of the barriers to transfer within one's data center, and SE is unlikely to add more wards until we're evenly distributed and all full up, so it's up to OP to decide what means more to him and live with that choice. There are a lot of reasons to dismiss OP, but can we stop pretending "the Sims exists" is a valid one?

[Gula]

There are houses elsewhere. Lots of them.

It depends on how grounded one is on their world. Mateus for example. I'm in a good FC, have friends, and don't want to transfer to a JP/EU data center that actually has enough plots available where the timer isn't unbearable.

Speaking of, there is also the timer itself. Just because 2-3 plots are open does not mean they're actually open when 7 players are camping a plot for 10 hours, one of which is bot clicking.

But, who knows. Maybe things would be different if a certain pair weren't hogging an entire ward. Maybe there would be 5 plots to pick from instead of 2 every several days. Especially when so many filtered out from the world.

People's ideas need to stop revolving around taking plots away from people who already own them

Other games with rent systems have no shortage of housing, because it ensures the player has to care to keep what they have. Yoshi-P does not want that, and I can respect it. But other games without rent free housing also have instanced housing. That we do not have.