Quote Originally Posted by Sei_Konsetsu View Post
Also, i played wildstar, and i do agree that the houseing and land plot system in that game was awesome, but im not sure how that would work in xiv. Your house in that game was a floating astoroid and you could fill your neighborhood with friends asteroids so you could fly to their houses and look about. Pretty sure you couldnt just have rando neighbors but i could be wrong.
Realistically, there's no convenient lore excuse/mechanic to have individual houses that you can shift around and connect up within a neighborhood. And demonstrably, SquareEnix wants neighborhoods.

And I can understand that because at their best, neighborhoods are amazing. When I got my house and started fiddling with the yard that evening, two of my neighbors noticed a house had gone up and came over to say hello (and one even gave me a housewarming gift). I now have both of those neighbors on my friend list, and I've even run content with one of them. I keep an eye on the yards my neighbors put together, and head over to wave hello when I see them around. And that's great—I'm almost certain it's what SquareEnix is aiming for with neighborhoods. I admit, I've now found that from that standpoint I vastly prefer having a neighborhood to the SWTOR or Champions Online or whatever else setup where you have an apartment building and everyone just has their own apartment and you never see your neighbors around.

But it's also godawful because of the limited availability this introduces.

Apartments are great because they stick around forever and there's basically an unlimited number of them, but they're also restrictive; I know people who only have apartments who really want to get into gardening. What options do they have? Hopefully their FC has a house and garden plots no one else is using, but if those plots are in use, what are their options?

I feel like if the apartments had more variety—if you could get large apartments, two-story penthouses, etc.—and if they had a little rooftop space with one garden patch, then they'd be a viable alternative to housing. Yes, there'd still be some differences between houses and apartments—like the ability to design a yard—so there'd still be demand for houses, but people who weren't able to get a house wouldn't be completely left out in the cold on things like gardening.