Open Letter to SE:Redesign Apartment Interiors & Make Apartments Relocatable to Plots

[Penthea]

Perhaps you need to go back to reread what I originally quoted from your post. You weren't discussing the benefits of housing in general. You were claiming that players are locked out of many features if they don't own a house.

I literally listed a list of benefits and you're trying to tell me I didn't discuss it? Okay. Sure.

So I limited my list to that - what a player won't have if they own an apartment instead of a house. It doesn't amount to "many features", only a few.

And I already told you why this is a silly thing to do but at this point I think you're just doing whatever you can to make apartments appear better than they are.

I had an apartment for a many months before I had a house, and while it's better than nothing it was disappointing.

No one expected something called an "apartment" to be literally the free company private chambers with a chocobo stable. Apparently SE's logic is a private room magically becomes an apartment when it comes with a chocobo stable.

The most disappointing things for me were: no balcony for outdoor decor and gardening, and no tenancy. To a point I can understand the lack of an outdoor space because linking that to an indoor space may not be an easy task due to how differently they work...but tenancy? Come on. I was surprised to see that wasn't a feature. At the time I didn't live with my boyfriend in real life and we just wanted a little living space we could share together, but no. For some reason SE think players won't ever want to share their apartments.

Here we are years later and something as basic as tenancy has still not been introduced.

And before you say "SE probably didn't introduce tenancy to apartments because we haven't run out of apartments" I understand this but this doesn't change that pretty often players want to share their apartment with someone else.

The real difference is for FCs mostly because apartments aren't even an option for FCs but let's be realistic. Most of the posts hitting the forums right now have nothing to do with players being angry their FC wasn't able to buy a house. They're angry because they couldn't buy a personal house even though an apartment would provide all the features most of them would actively use.

Well this does make sense. There are significantly more players than there are fcs. I wouldn't expect the outcry from fcs to be remotely comparable to those looking for a private home.