Why FFXIV’s Housing System Is Failing Its Players, and Why It Must Change

[Shistar]

Small corrections:

[*]No Workshop or Gardening: FC workshops, crossbreeding gardens, and chocobo stables are exclusive to houses.

Chocobo stables are not exclusive to plot housing. Every apartment building comes with easy access to moogle mail, a mender, a housing vendor, a summoner bell, a marketboard and a chocobo stable. Also, teleporting without having to spend any item slots on a mini aetheryte.


About the FC workshop, that's just standard for everyone across the board. A private estate doesn't have a workshop either, it's exclusive to FCs, and FCs can't have apartments (we're not counting FC rooms in this, because you must have an FC plot in order to have an FC room, and if the house is gone, so are the rooms in it)

The auto-demolition timer, which destroys a house if the owner doesn’t enter it within 45 days, is cruel and toxic

The autodemolition system is in place because players asked for it. Unfortunately, due to how access to housing and the wards are designed, one could buy a plot and leave it there, eventually making it impossible for an active player to get a house because all of them were "occupied" by players who hadn't logged on for years. I agree it should be longer, or make it possible to request an extension once or twice per year through a specific system or the GMs for these emergencies.

Implement instanced housing so every player and FC can own a home

EDIT: I know it was not specified, but all FC houses have access to workshops, so my reply assumes that instanced housing would work exactly the same as current FC housing, and allow everyone to build a workshop.

I don't think FCs (or anyone, specially private estates) should be given a workshop for free. That would only make it easier for the RMT bots to amass tons and tons of gil, or even for a regular player to get seriously rich doing AFK jewelry farming. You'd think it's not bad to be rich, but inflation is no fun. It only takes a few to ruin it for everyone, and for workshops to get completely removed from the game because we know how SE handles these cases more often than not.




The rest I generally agree with.