Housing Clarification Regarding Future Plans/Workshop

[Beeraga]

I would like clarification from the Devs on whether workshops/basements will be available to all size plots. Some have suggested that this might be limited to large size housing, but I have not seen anything official about this.

Considering this is such a large investment of both time and gil, and considering you are telling us to wait and grind out gil, we should at least know what our target will be. I don't want to spend the next however many months grinding out gil, get a small or medium house, and then two months later find out we dropped all that gil to be locked out of future content/workshops/airships etc.

This is the only official thing I can dig up on the matter:

Letter from the Producer LIVE at the Tokyo Game Show (10/07/2013)
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...9cb7a43a2f00b2

Q. Please tell us what we can do with individual player housing. Can we set our minions to play around the house? Can we make greenhouses and fields?
A. Through updates, we're planning to make it possible for players to grow gysahl greens and hatch baby chocobos and raise them. Also, we’re planning underground workshops where crafters can build boats and airships.

[Yshnal]

I would like to know this too. If all that will be available to all land sizes we might aim for a medium plot, instead of a large one.

Anyway, what I would like to know too is that if, even if we could have workshops, basements, chocobo stables, etc. available to all land sizes, we would have to choose between having one OR the other, or if they would come in different sizes so that all plots can have all of them. I think that this question would affect too what plot people will choose.

[Sunarie]

Throw my vote in for more clarification on this.

[SarcasmMisser]

The question seems to be addressing individual housing. It seems to make more sense to wait for that

[Beeraga]

The question seems to be addressing individual housing. It seems to make more sense to wait for that

To be clear, I am not referring to individual housing. I'd like to clarify what this means for FC housing. However, if we could learn a bit in advance about individual housing, that could also alleviate people's stress and help make decisions. If we could have workshops in our individual houses (which seems odd since I thought that was a combined crafting effort idea), that would be important to know as well.

[Beeraga]

This is why I want to know, this is a small house on our server (TY ATMA for allowing us to visit). I want to make sure people who choose to purchase small houses will not be limited beyond the size and amount of items they can place, that they will have access to all future content, workshops etc.

[Beeraga]

Bumping, kinda important to know this in deciding what house to purchase.

[Percyphanie]

I had the same question.
I tried to post my queries here... http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...o-with-a-house
... but it seems that most players are more concerned about complaining about costs than what they will actually be able to do once they buy a house.

[ArkhamNative]

I also would like to know about the crafting basement (the multiple crafter feature mentioned by Yoshi-P) for small & medium houses.

Also, shouldn't the small FC house have multiple stories? I assumed it was S=1, M=2, L=3-story, but I saw a medium house with 3 stories and you could fit 2 or 3 small houses on one of its floors. That's like around 6 to 9 times the floor space for 3x the price.

[TatamiTami]

This is a very important question that needs to be answered quickly in order for us to plan ahead. I'm very interested in raising chocobos and I would be very sad if, let's say, we bought a small house and then weren't able to place a chocobo stable.