Housing needs to be adjusted :(

[Blacksail]

Oh goodness thank you so much for the informative reply!

I had no idea the housing was like this for years now as a newcomer to the system I was indeed taken back by it..
but thank you very much, I will follow your advice, take a break and also hope for the best in Endwalker!

[LittleArrow]

Oh goodness thank you so much for the informative reply!

I had no idea the housing was like this for years now as a newcomer to the system I was indeed taken back by it..
but thank you very much, I will follow your advice, take a break and also hope for the best in Endwalker!

First of all, welcome to XIV! It's great to have you here

Secondly, yeah sadly this is a very well known problem. Their Band-Aid to fix the issue were apartments. I believe there's a post / comment somewhere that Yoshi responds to the harsh housing system with how even he, the game's producer, doesn't have house or their FC doesn't have a house (this is pure gossip, I think I read it in an article a while ago lol).

They've been trying to push their current system b/c neighborhood community-feel was very important to them when developing the whole housing system. Unfortunately, that's not really what you see in game lol. I think I've had maybe 2 sentences with my neighbors over the past 2 years, b/c that's how rare it is to see anyone in the housing wards lol.

Hopefully, island sanctuaries will fix this issue. Many of us have been clamoring for instanced housing (Elder Scrolls Online housing comes to my mind when I have suggested it in the past). So, if what I've been hearing is accurate (which again, it very well could not be accurate so please don't depend on this piece of content to answer all our problems), it seems like this will be a welcome piece of content for those of us who really enjoy all the housing stuff but are exhausted by its limitations (RMT-buyers controlling the market / bots / extremely limited house designing features / etc).

So hang in there! If you want a house in the game, you totally can do it, and hopefully Endwalker will bring great news to us who enjoy housing in the game!