Lost my House

[Melichoir]

Instanced housing could be fine as long as the plots that are instanced are like the plots are now. When you go into an instanced area, you appear at the entrance to the plot - not inside the house - and it would look much like what we have now. Paying for a plot would be the same (minus the competition and waiting) and you pay for a plot at a fixed price. The amount you pay gives you back the size of lot you want.
Neighborhoods are quite honestly worthless in FFXIV. Yes, they are nice, but no one uses it as such - there's not any, or hardly any, interaction between neighbors. FCs are about the only interaction in neighborhoods, and that's done on their plot or in their FC house.

This would pretty much solve the issues with degradation of housing for subscriptions, everyone could access it if they want to, you can visit your FC if you want to, and take care of and decorate your plot/house just like we are now. You just lose a "neighborhood". To that I say, "So what?" because we don't ever use it like that.

I get how instanced housing would work, and it still comes across as a glorified apartment and not nearly as interesting to me as neighborhoods. You may think theyre useless, and maybe from a functional stand point they are, but from an aesthetics standpoint I think it's superior and worth while. So the question then becomes if you want a house like object thats instanced, why not advocate for better apartments instead fo gutting the housing system that people such as myself do appreciate? Bear in mind if neighbor hoods dont matter, then why is location so important to players. I see a lot of players forgo Goblet housing in favor of other districts. Or skipping past certain locations simply because theyre not as ideal for one reason or another. I feel that neighborhood and the like does matter more than given credit.

Can only speak for myself, but I'd decorate my house to the nines if I could. I have a medium, but it's too small and too limited for me to either take full advantage of the space or set up the rooms the way I want without some INCREDIBLY frustrating glitching and hours of microadjustments to get the walls and lofts exactly the way I want them. That's a side grievance with decorating in this game though :P

Even with relocate privileges it's gonna take something close to a miracle for me to snag a large if, say, Ishgard housing gets added. I care a heck of a lot more about my own decorating than I do about having neighbors that I'll almost never see and likely never talk to.

Fair question, I can only reply for myself. My dream housing can be full instancied, I don't care about show off. What would be nice is an evolutive housing, even (if) shared with alts, that you can start as little house and upgrade with floors and several rooms or annex depending of how many gils you have, your needs and wishes. Something that allow people to be really creative.

I dont doubt either of you would decorate the house and put effort in it and use it. But my point is given how many people fight for housing, get a house, then dont do jack with it, I am wondering if the demand for houses is as high as people assume it is. I am not asking people to invest an arm and a leg into making it super fashionable. It may not be 100% for everyone in that regards, sure. I mean I love decorating mine and what not. Im proud of my upstairs currently and thinking about remodeling the downstairs. But maybe thats not everyone. But seeing a house with a sole chair and possibly a bed and nothing else, or just storage for event housing items just thrown where ever and nothing else just makes me think that people are getting houses and once they have one, they just dont do jack with it. Those people are eating up housing for people who would put effort and time into having one.

[Eldevern]

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You can doubt as much as you want, I did it with my first two mansions. And they were still too little (I want a castle or Haukke Manor or maybe share the castel with Feo :3). And now what bother me is both that apartements are so tiny and we can't even have a proper use of the mezzanine since we need to use glitchs to put something on.