Lost my House

[Melichoir]

You can disagree all you like but I won't change my opinion of a system that is in need of fixing. If they are paying a sub then they are active. How and when i use my house is my business. If I choose to go on a 2 month vacation I should be able to without losing my house as long as I maintain my sub.

Having a sub does not mean participating in content. Housing is content. Having your sub does not entitle you to hold something that is limited even if you dont log in.

If gardening with cross-breeding was allowed in apartments then I'd agree with you. But you need access to a garden to be able to do cross-breeding....

Youre identifying a shortcoming with apartments, and suggesting the solution is to create more housing by restructuring how the servers themselves work so every house is a single instance and everything is separated and isolated. If this is an issue people have, it might actually be better to advocate for a much more advanced Apartment system. For example, you could have small/medium/large size apartments that all cost different things. Small apts are what we got now, medium have a up and downstairs similar in size to a cottage, a large apartment would have up and down stairs with an outdoor balcony section that holds 10 yard items (with some limitations, such as large outdoor items might have to be restricted for obvious reasons.) Theyll have different price tiers, and item limits of course. So on so forth. Point is, We could do instanced housing in a sense by reworking how apartments work while leaving the current housing system in place.

...I would prefer the instancied system from Wildstar.

I liked a great many things about WildStars housing system, however I will not deny that it also felt isolated and lonely. Yes, I could visit any house I watned to see something, but it doesnt have the same feel FFXIV does in terms of wards feeling more alive overall. It's definitely not perfect on FFXIV and theres a lot of room to debate how things should proceed, but I do like how it works currently from a look and feel standpoint.