Did Island Sanctuary satisfy any reasons you want a house?

[SturmChurro]

I never thought I'd say this, but I also prefer it to my house situation ATM. Now that very well could change once I hit max level and have caught all the animals I want, but time will tell!. Island Sanctuary is pretty barebones at this point, and I have a rather decent sized list of things I'd like to see them implement and/or improve upon, but I've not hated my time there, so that's a plus. lol.

As far as my house situation... I'm pretty much a solo player and so I have visitors to my house maaaaaaybe once a month or so. It's incredibly rare. For MB things I go to Limsa. For glamour I'm forced to go to a major city. I haven't gardened in awhile. The extra storage for my enormous surplus of furniture is probably the biggest perk ATM. So for me, housing doesn't have that big of a leg up over IS at this point. If they were to make a few additions to IS, I could almost see myself giving up my personal and FC house. I hate feeling tied to a sub anyway, so it would be nice to not have that burden. But again, that's gonna depend on how IS plays out, and if I toss it aside once I have all the goodies I want. :P I'm cautiously optimistic at this time, and that's saying A LOT for me when it comes to this game.

It seems an unpopular unpopular opinion after a week to be a little positive of the content. I look at it for what it is though. Ever since it came out, I have pretty much only been inside IS. I queue from it, of course I am quite the AFKer, and I am not even logged in all day doing other things or playing other games. I do have my gripes about it, in terms of customization mostly. I have the goal of glamours and the other rewards, after I get those, I may or may not still interact with the content. I mean, aside from setting things to sell, for potential future rewards/expansions.

Also a solo player here, and I never get visitors to my house. I can use the marketboard that's fairly close to my house, but if I am actively making glamours or changing up my plates, I am typically in Gridania, and the Gridania inn. I was in Ul'dah more when I was afking in the gold saucer though. Unfortunately, I still need to level up my crafters if I want to take actual housing seriously. Apparently, I will want to do so if I want to customize the IS too, unfortunately.

[Raoabolic]

At most I assumed the island was going to alleviate the crossbreeding market locked down by house owners. Silly me, lol.

[Claviusnex]

Sadly the island is nowhere close to satisfying my housing needs and wants. Though I had low expectations from the start I was hoping that the island would have at least allowed me to use some of the furnishings I have accumulated over the years in-order personalize the place. I was also hoping to be able to plant crops from the main game. Instead we ended up with an FF XIV version of WoW garrisons with a worse grind and less function. I know YoshiP tried to temper expectations but to me no matter how you slice it the island is a fail and won't keep my subscription past the month I signed up to try them out.

[Skivvy]

It seems an unpopular unpopular opinion after a week to be a little positive of the content. I look at it for what it is though. Ever since it came out, I have pretty much only been inside IS. I queue from it, of course I am quite the AFKer, and I am not even logged in all day doing other things or playing other games. I do have my gripes about it, in terms of customization mostly. I have the goal of glamours and the other rewards, after I get those, I may or may not still interact with the content. I mean, aside from setting things to sell, for potential future rewards/expansions.

Also a solo player here, and I never get visitors to my house. I can use the marketboard that's fairly close to my house, but if I am actively making glamours or changing up my plates, I am typically in Gridania, and the Gridania inn. I was in Ul'dah more when I was afking in the gold saucer though. Unfortunately, I still need to level up my crafters if I want to take actual housing seriously. Apparently, I will want to do so if I want to customize the IS too, unfortunately.

Solo players unite! Next time I go datacenter crawling, I'll check out the house

There are a lot of good ideas out there for how they could flesh out activities and interaction, personalization, and UI/controls. I really do hope SE will take into consideration some of the ideas floating around as I feel like they have a fairly decent base to build upon.

[SturmChurro]

Solo players unite! Next time I go datacenter crawling, I'll check out the house

There are a lot of good ideas out there for how they could flesh out activities and interaction, personalization, and UI/controls. I really do hope SE will take into consideration some of the ideas floating around as I feel like they have a fairly decent base to build upon.

Uniting wouldn't make us solo players anymore!

You can visit, but I think most people are surprised by what they find the couple times it's happened in the past. My house looks like a hoarder's.

There's a lot they could do for sure, I think it really just depends on how much they want to invest in the future of the content. There are a lot of things I would have done different conceptually.

[Skivvy]

Uniting wouldn't make us solo players anymore!

You can visit, but I think most people are surprised by what they find the occasional times they have. My house looks like a hoarder's.

There's a lot they could do for sure, I think it really just depends on how much they want to invest in the future of the content. There are a lot of things I would have done different conceptually.

My tiny sliver of optimism starts wavering when I dwell on that thought for too long. lol. I don't think SE has that great of a track record when it comes to their optional/side-content. Shooot, we could extend that to some of the main features of the game, but that's an enormous rant for another day. For now, I'm trying to remain hopeful. ><

[SturmChurro]

My tiny sliver of optimism starts wavering when I dwell on that thought for too long. lol. I don't think SE has that great of a track record when it comes to their optional/side-content. Shooot, we could extend that to some of the main features of the game, but that's an enormous rant for another day. But yeah, I'm trying to remain hopeful. ><

I had no expectations going in, and none for the future either. I will be pleasantly surprised if they do good updates, more so in terms of rewards. If it's like the SE I think I know, the content will be dropped by the end of EW.

[Jojoya]

At most I assumed the island was going to alleviate the crossbreeding market locked down by house owners. Silly me, lol.

Want to use the gardens at my house for a while? I'll be happy to let you take control for a few months to see if you really enjoy the crossbreeding game.

I had no expectations going in, and none for the future either. I will be pleasantly surprised if they do good updates, more so in terms of rewards. If it's like the SE I think I know, the content will be dropped by the end of EW.

I suspect that will depend on player response over the course of the expansion. If enough players continue to use and enjoy it, they'll continue to update.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I didn't want a house at all, so there was nothing to satisfy.

As for the island, it feels like a beta for things to come. Hope there's something more than just setting mammets to work at some point, otherwise I'll be dropping it once I get the rewards I want.

[aveyond-dreams]

Absolutely not. I maintain that instanced housing would've been a better use of resources than an island where all you do is click on things.