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[SannaR]

There are a lot of people in XIV that play just for housing. Just as some may do it for Ultimates, or Achievement Hunting. There are a lot of those that find their end-game to be housing and crafting.

You don't have to like it, but XIV has put a lot of effort into making sure everything revolves around housing to some degree with how many housing rewards we're given, and how housing has long-term incentives.

To deny that is just ignorant at best.

The thing is when people toss around end game content they tend to mean a thing you can grind. And for me a house doesn't offer that repeatability. Sure you can tare down your theme or design and change it. And I get that for some that is fun. But once it's done there isn't anything left to do why i said that many people don't even go inside their house once it's decorated. If they even decorate it at all. Not everyone is turning their house into a venue of some sort where they host parties or events. Normally night clubs are ran by FCs. And don't bring up gardening cause sure it can help gain you some gil but it's pretty very similar to what you do on an Island Sanctuary.

I own a house heck I owned a house took a break due to having to move. Purposely let said house auto demo. Restarted from scratch went for years without a house, FC room or an apartment. Then the decorating bug bit me and I got a house under the old system. Only got my medium with 6.3 decorated and spend most of my time inside it. Yet I don't consider it as end game content. Yes, I know I'm very lucky to have a house in game and gotten one twice along with an upgrade. It still doesn't change my view about housing being end game content.

[Byron-Blackfyre]

The thing is when people toss around end game content they tend to mean a thing you can grind. And for me a house doesn't offer that repeatability. Sure you can tare down your theme or design and change it. And I get that for some that is fun. But once it's done there isn't anything left to do why i said that many people don't even go inside their house once it's decorated. If they even decorate it at all. Not everyone is turning their house into a venue of some sort where they host parties or events. Normally night clubs are ran by FCs. And don't bring up gardening cause sure it can help gain you some gil but it's pretty very similar to what you do on an Island Sanctuary.

I own a house heck I owned a house took a break due to having to move. Purposely let said house auto demo. Restarted from scratch went for years without a house, FC room or an apartment. Then the decorating bug bit me and I got a house under the old system. Only got my medium with 6.3 decorated and spend most of my time inside it. Yet I don't consider it as end game content. Yes, I know I'm very lucky to have a house in game and gotten one twice along with an upgrade. It still doesn't change my view about housing being end game content.

depends on how you feel about end-game. for ultimate raiders and savage proggers, end-game is challenging pve. for people who love deep dungeons, their end-game is score-pushing potd, hoh, and eo. for people who enjoy social community events, housing plays a big part in what they consider to be their end-game within ff14. just because you don't think something is the most important part of your ff14 experience, doesn't mean that is the case for others.

[R041]

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I can respect that - But if you took any sprout and asked them what their end-goal is, it will probably be a house. To grind for that house and have a place of their own. They can continue to grind out raids, trials, ultimates. But where do they put those rewards? What's the 1 constant that they can continue to go back to when the raid series is over, to deco, to build friendships around, to socialize.

When I think of end-game, even going way back to Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, etc - It's having completed your goals and working on your house/guild/town and socializing. Always has been. It's the oldest end-game in MMORPGs. Some MMO players may just go AFK, but others try and build the avenues for social interaction.