FC Housing? What's the point?

[Souljacker]

In my exp there is one person in the fc who wants to use it as their own personal housing. They don't want to let anyone else move anything, do anything, change anything or touch the house in any way they don't want you to, yet they expect everyone to pay for and contribute to the house and use fc funds to pay for furniture immediately after an update when its at its most expensive.

Sounds like you are in a pretty crappy FC. Mine isn't like that at all. In fact, I feel like the leaders are a spot TOO generous when it comes to sharing with members and offering themselves up. Between the two of them they have all crafts to 50 and all overmelds so they pretty much make bank. And they shower every new member with gear sets and help with their individual crafting. The other day the leader basically told me to keep the proceeds from the last batch in the garden, but I'm not comfortable with that so I put it in the bank anyway.


The system isn't *broken* per se, but I agree some people definitely are. Personal housing should have come before Company housing for this reason. There's not enough personal stuff in the game and far too much is centered on the *group* aspect. XI was like this in the beginning as well.

[Seif]

To a non fc player it doesn't seem that important based on these replies.
Especially when it comes to actual gameplay.

I see no point in the convenience of mb and vendors when you have that and so much more in each town.

[DevilInANewDress]

Hot tub anyone?

[QuCont]

To a non fc player it doesn't seem that important based on these replies.
Especially when it comes to actual gameplay.

I see no point in the convenience of mb and vendors when you have that and so much more in each town.

The FC vendors sell a lot more items than can be found on the vendors in town.

[echoica]

I see a lot of people buy housing and when the novelty wears off like a week later they hardly ever visit again. We, however, are there all the time as crafters it's a great place to hang out and get things done now that we have our own mender, summoning bell and marketboard outside. I love our house!

[swordrain]

Housing is meant to be like a glamour system, or basic character customization. It isn't something players need, its something that players want. If you don't want to contribute to an FC house, tell your guild.

It's meant to simply be another way for a player to express themselves in-game, which makes housing a piece of content that can't become "outdated" and something that the devs never need to redevelop.

If you continue playing this game, I guarantee you, after raids come and go, gear sets collect dust in your wardrobe, after friends come and go, you will appreciate things that don't have to change, and that you can hold onto them as 'yours.'

[Sadana]

If you craft at all, the npc materials vendor is great. They pretty much sell every mat available at every city. So no more "where was this sold at? Oh, now I need to port there...."

No, not everyone in my FC makes much use of the house, but some do and it's fun to hang out there.

I guess too, we don't know what features will be added to FC houses in the future. So, getting a house now before they are all gone and you CAN'T take advantage of these makes sense to me. Yes, I'm sure SE will add more wards at some point, but which will come first? More features or the wards? :/

[Tinsley]

Maybe my FC is rare but, we started with a small cottage and just recently moved up to a full Mansion. Both have always been our place to gather and hang out. Our home. We have a MB a few feet away, two summoning bells (one in house, one by mb), merchants, mailbox, mender and a aetheryte. I only go into the cities to go to GC, use the armoire or get my hair done.

There are always a few FC members near the house at any given time. We share gardening duties (tending, fertilizing, planting, gathering) and soon will add the crafting stations. This will give even more of our fc members a reason to hang at the house.

To be honest the house has given our FC a real sense of community and a stronger bond as a Free company. at least in my opinion. We arent all spread out over Eorzea and we help each other with crafting, materials, gathering, trials, dungeons, fates, etc daily.

Do we need a mansion? Probably not but it sure is pretty

[KovaThurne]

I feel like this game and DC Universe Online got it completely backwards when it comes to housing. Here you have FC (guild) housing and not personal housing. In DCUO you got personal bases (housing) and not league (guild) bases.

For DCUO I could care less about having my own base but it would have been really cool for our league to have it's own base like the Avengers HQ, Watch Tower, X Mansion, Asteroid M, ect.

For this game, while the FC housing is kinda cool I would much rather have my own cottage that I could decorate with my own souvenirs and trophies that I collected throughout my adventuring career