So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Atelier-Bagur]

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.

[Sairys]

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.

Yes, those that believe owning a plot gives them high status would fall under the definition of pretentious because again, they just got lucky. What you do with your plot is also separate from just owning it. Other people might do the same, maybe even something better, they just can't because they don't have a plot.

We also can't really compare wards to instanced for things like community events, given they are popular you'd actually expect instanced housing to be developed to support them continuing. It would be just as valid to say that instanced housing would likely make those events even better because it could allow for a much wider variety of plots allowing for even more diverse designs, imagine one with a rooftop bar, for example.

[Mika_Zahard]

Im glad i finally got a house after several months of bidding.

I've yet to get one in my first server, but next week may be my lucky day again.