Sorry about the anger, this is a touchy subject for me.

I was already a little disheartened by the fact that 2.0 was so different from 1.23 and that it wasn't going to be easy for me to play a game this action oriented. But, I met my husband through FFXI, and we've been playing XI and XIV together for a LONG time now. Housing was going to be the feature that kept me in the game with him. Now, he logs in and does his duty roulette, or works on his next relic, or helps out the LS, while I sit and watch Netflix or read a book.

While I can almost understand that SE wants to remove some gil from the game, I'm bitter and angry that they used a casual feature, for fun, to try to remove gil. Everything else is so easily done, that gil has no real meaning, and yet, you have to have a crap ton of it to get a house. Farming takes no time at all, spiritbonding is apparently done in CT, gathering is botted beyond all reason and crafting is leveled up in a day via leves. No one needs gil, so why do they put such a high price on housing to remove the useless gil?