Quote Originally Posted by Sairys View Post
Not really, Housing was implemented for FCs only in 2.1. There were 3 districts and 12 wards so space for 1080 FCs in the early days of the game and, afaik, there was more than enough for that purpose so that every FC could get one.

It was later updated to include personal use in patch 2.38 and Yoshi-P has been apologising for the lack of availability since that day.

The system could be prestigious if it were something you actually earn, but right now there's nothing "prestigious" about owning a house in FFXIV because those that do just got lucky. If people with plots think that makes them admirable then the actual word for that would be pretentious.
Prestigious isnt the right word. Just very, very, VERY fortunate. You do get a sense of relative high status for having a piece of perma-customizable land on a server that anyone can come in and watch. Which I believe is the only real value to server based housing over instanced based and believe it or not, there are people that do community events in these servers like the recent billboard party thing.

Even still, I really would prefer instance housing.