Personal Housing Questions

[Niwashi]

I'd be fine with Free Companies having benefits if they were actually related to Free Companies.

Agreed. It's when things like leveling or customizing your Grand Company Chocobo is tied to your rank within (as well as the rank of) your Free Company that I get annoyed. It's adding restrictions that make no sense. (If they'd instead had restrictions on it based on your GC rank, that I'd accept. It'd make more sense that way. But it shouldn't be tied to FCs.)

[Nalien]

Agreed. It's when things like leveling or customizing your Grand Company Chocobo is tied to your rank within (as well as the rank of) your Free Company that I get annoyed. It's adding restrictions that make no sense. (If they'd instead had restrictions on it based on your GC rank, that I'd accept. It'd make more sense that way. But it shouldn't be tied to FCs.)

Worst part is, there are "unused" Chocobo Stables and even locations that could be used for Gardening all over Eorzea, but instead this is FC content (FCs with a House, even) because... Having bought a House a FC clearly needs the extra Gil Gardening brings in...?

[Niwashi]

I think it would be awesome if they slowly auctioned off plots to the highest bidder. Hard to complain about the prices then.

If they auctioned off enough houses for everyone who wants one to get one, the price they'd get would be 1 gil, as there would be no reason to bid against anyone else. I suppose you're right that there wouldn't be much complaining about it, but it does seem a bit unrealistic. And it wouldn't provide the gil-sink that I'm pretty sure SE is aiming for this to be.

The only way you'd get any real bidding at such an auction is if they deliberately prevent personal housing from fulfilling its purpose for existing, by restricting the number of houses available. That way, no matter what happens with the bidding, most players will be unable to obtain one.

We already have the exclusive housing that a few players can have but most cannot. Currently, in order to have access to a house you have to be the leader or a top-level officer of a high ranking Free Company. If you're not in a Free Company, then no house for you. If your Free Company is below rank 6 then no house for you. And if you're a member rather than an officer of your Free Company, then all you can do with your house is look at it, so effectively no house for you.

Personal housing is supposed to fix that problem. It exists so that EVERYONE can have access to a house (along with its associated activities like gardening and chocobo raising). Limiting it as well to only a few privileged players would defeat its whole purpose.

[TheTen]

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/122...ted-Interviews

There are a lot of personal housing plans in there.

Of course, like any of their plans, things might get delayed or change.

[NyneAlexander]

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/122...ted-Interviews

There are a lot of personal housing plans in there.

Of course, like any of their plans, things might get delayed or change.

Why do we need "a certain FC rank" to get a personal house? blah.

[Risvertasashi]

Why do we need "a certain FC rank" to get a personal house? blah.

That's a mistranslation, the original interview says a GC rank.

[Khyzen]

So 2.38 was just announced for next Monday night/Tuesday morning, so crossing my fingers that they'll release some info within the next day or two here. At this point I'd really just like to know if personal housing is going to be a land race like with FC housing, or if it will be possible for every player to own their own house.

[AmalahRose]

I'd really like answers to these.

[Mini_Me]

So is this the line for the new iPhone?

[Jodou]

I had started to make a thread like this last week until I found this interview again:

This will be introduced sometime after the Free Company’s personal rooms are made available in Patch 2.3, and the size will be a little larger than the ones at the inns.

The bold part is important and crushed my dreams of owning a mansion like FC's can have in a large ward like mist. Now I believe they'll be nothing more than smaller FC rooms with no physical residence or community ward.

TBH, SE has done an awful job communicating how player housing will work and STILL has yet to even address it with less than a week to launch. At this point, what details do they need to iron out before they could do a preview? They're setting us up for disappointment which will only result in backlash this late in the game.