Solo/Alt FCs with Housing are a Problem, and this FC "Housing Deniers" Proves It

[IronThistle]

I made a very similar post a month or two ago, with the main suggestion that decoupling the FC workshop from a house would go a long way to solving the housing issues.
I was also met with a lot of people saying that was a stupid idea, wouldn't work, would be bad for FCs, etc. etc.
And while - yes, SE should change how housing is offered so that many more people can get one - I STILL think that the FC workshop should be tied to an instance you access at your GC and *not* through a player-owned house.

[MicahZerrshia]

I was also met with a lot of people saying that was a stupid idea, wouldn't work, would be bad for FCs, etc. etc.

I made a post years ago about how they should implement apartments, the only thing that differed from my post and how it was implemented was that the entrance was put in the residential area instead of in the cities themselves and I was met with the exact same comments. "What a stupid idea!" "But think about what that will do to FCs!" "The servers couldn't handle that!" "This would cause massive crashes!" etc etc etc

Players in general have no idea what they are talking about.

[IronThistle]

...decoupling the workshops is beneficial for people who want a house, since gil farmers no longer need to hoard them...
Decouple workshops from housing is a good idea because it'll make houses more available to people who want houses. It's a good idea. But it's not going to stop gil from being hoarded by the few.

Me personally, I am not advocating one way or the other about gil hoarding, or subs, and/or gatekeeping of same.
People who want a house should be able to obtain one. Other games are certainly able to make this happen.

(Instanced housing might/probably would/ also require that FC workshops be decoupled from housing. That would sure kill two birds with one stone.)

[JohncarterIx]

you think that bad i had the nicest little house by me in mist hell i even have a danta closs alt had big gill little house 1 of a kind my friends and i get our subs from ffx14 store bam sold out lost a house 1000 like every 1 who seen it said wow i made it like the hilfiger house i stay in lol . i just got back . i bought dawn trail i got the thank you the usa -555 it never came after i paid for it . whats up with the store . i live by don jr he lives by me on weekends

[NightHour]

We need not to impose further restrictions or complications regarding existing player housing model.
Current housing needs to be completely taken down and reimplemented from scratch as instanced, unlimited housing so that everyone can have a house of desired size and theme for every character and every FC.
SE needs to stop with half-measures and start doing actual work. We pay them for that.



Worst possible idea to come up in a game which heavily bleeds players so much so that even FCs that previously had hundreds of active members may not even have 10 currently.
I'm not even going to mention how badly this will impact roleplaying community where FC typically is used as a management grounds while actual playerbase comes from different worlds and data centers.

You actually pay for the privilege to access the service.