Fix Housing Megathread

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Grammar

Dropping GC rank needed for apartments and FC private champers would help create a gap the player can use to explore the features apartments offer before they decide if they want to spend another 3+ million to get a house.

Apartment still costs 500k. Unless it becomes free, dropping the required GC rank is probably not going to make a difference. Most people don’t drop 500k gils just to check things out. (Which was why I tried to suggest a demo/trial experience quest for apartment before.)

And I seriously doubt they’d just let it become free with or without GC rank requirement. They probably don’t have enough capacity to provide apartments for every single character created on all the servers. I haven’t actually gone to check it out, but someone already claimed on the forum that apartments on Balmung are full.

Of course, for me this is dependent on whether SE is going to remain stubborn and stick with the ward system as is or if they're going to fix the housing system so every player that wants a house is able to get one. I'd still rather see everyone with a house or at the very least apartments with house-size interiors to choose from.

I don’t think SE is sticking to ward system solely because they are stubborn/have certain design vision. They are sticking with it because it already exists.

Short of doing another realm rebirth and making yet another new version of XIV altogether, existing wards are not going away. And as long as they exist, those wards are using up resources and driving house-hunters toward them. (I haven’t gone beyond the end of HW on MSQ, so I can’t tell if a realm rebirth might a possibility at the end of Endwalker/Hydaelyn arc. But if they are planning a complete destruction/rebirth of Eorzea then there’s even less incentive to change things now.)

I see them kind of in a bind and just decided that they might as well direct possible additional resources toward adding wards, instead of betting on a new version of instance housing that is unproven (as a business decision).