Remove FC housing entirely

[CatStarwind]

From what I understand, they had originally told players that personal housing would be an entirely separate system. The assumption is that they changed their minds and lumped personal into the wards when the wards remained mostly empty. The interest in FC housing either was not there, or no one was interested for the prices being charged at that time.

That even now FCs were given initial preference with the new lottery system, that assumption is most likely false. The incredibly small timeframe between FC housing and personal housing matches with how they still do it now.

I'm definitely one who would love to see a good instanced housing system implemented.

We already have instanced housing: Apartments. Little has been done with them since introduction and they desperately need some love. Simply giving them balconies would be a major improvement.

Most of the pushback seems to come from those who seem to want housing to be a prestige system in a game that pretty much lacks prestige systems outside of Ultimate, and if others were able to easily get a house their own purchase wouldn't feel as special.

I have never in my life seen a single person express this. Outside of periods where the demo-timer is off, housing is always viable to acquire.

I know I sound like a broken record but RIFT Dimensions was a housing system done right. The art aesthetic wasn't that great but the actual systems were A+. Placement on any axis, rotation on any axis, resizing items to a considerable degree, the ability to place a prefabricated building or create your own building from scratch using Building Blocks. Objects that could be used to create lighting effects, weather effects (and then block those effects in a specific section of the Dimension), set a static time of day/night instead of following the normal game cycle. Control over who could visit or be a tenant(public, friends, guild, whitelist, blacklist). Search system to allow players to find public Dimensions by location, keyword or Likes. You got to select your Dimensions from dozens of actual in game locations plus a few locations created just for Dimensions.

Best of all, everyone could have multiple Dimensions. No one got locked out of the system or the location they wanted because too bad so sad 500 other players already had it and there were no more left.

None of this is relevant to the discussion so I'm not sure the point of this non-sequitor.

FFXIV housing may be more visually appealing but the systems suck in comparison.

It sucks because it still has exploitable loopholes that are being abused.