[Salt thread] Owning a House Offically became Dead content for me

[SturmChurro]

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Also frankly, given it's a buy-to-play game with an optional sub... I'm more lenient with cash shop pushing than I am a sub-based game double dipping with extra charges for retainers and a cash shop with overpriced attire you can only use on single characters. Not to say ESO's cash shop isn't predatory as all heck, but I can at least understand the necessity of not just having it but pushing it so hard, because at the end of the day, it's essentially free to play after you purchase the game.

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Games that came before and after FFXIV have all - for the most part - had better housing systems than FFXIV. Which is incredibly sad for a game touted as 'the greatest MMO on the market'. With Wildstar out of commission, ESO is king of housing at this point.

That's how they get you. The sub is "optional" .. it's really not though, if you seriously want to play. I agreed that the housing system is good every time I have talked about that game, I have just always criticized the monetization of said feature - the game in general really, it's awful. I understand that there are players who do not really like this game or it's direction, and the housing definitely could be better, but FFXIV is still the all around better game. Anyway, sure, if someone has a lot of money (or time) that they are willing to spend, likes bad gameplay, likes ES in general, then they can always give it a try.