Personal Housing

[Jennika]

How long has it been since they implemented housing? The devs said that they were working hard to get personal housing ready for patch 2.38. If the only thing they did was add 2 new wards to each residential area, why did it take so long? I'm not complaining about the wait, I'm asking what they actually did with the time.

I was hoping maybe they would add some cool features since only a single player would be able to access the house functions. Maybe have a single minion roam our house, or your retainers could be in your house, or any different kind of functionality at all. They even said we would have to garden in flower pots or something later on.

My last question: Besides having complete control of the garden, is there anything personal housing offers more to a player than a personal FC room does besides more space?

[Sessurea]

There's no reason why they couldn't make personal housing instanced. There are a million ways they could have instanced it and had the cost be ~850k.

like personal rooms? I guess, but that would suck sooooo much, just look at personal rooms lol xc

[Airikay]

how on earth were u guys expecting them to make non-instanced personal housing and have it at 850k? If this was the case, a smart group of people could just elect one person to buy the house and then form a LS instead of an FC..

Not even FC housing is non instanced. If it was non instanced, you wouldn't be teleported when walking through the front door.

[SevValen]

Wasnt person housing suppossed to come in 3.0 anyway? I dont care about personal housng at all but I.think this is maybe just a test that they are doing and whenever that test ends thats when they'll decide to either keep it the way it is or come out with a completely different things

[CYoung187]

With the line in the patch notes mentioning that they will be adding a lot of land for housing in 2.4, I'm hoping that means they will be adding new housing zones specifically designed for player housing at a lower price at that time. This wave of personal housing is just opening up the option, but affordable player housing will be coming later... I hope. I've been saving a while, but 4-5 million gil is a lot of money.

This may be sort of a preview to personal housing, but they should let that be known instead of enraging all of their players. Either way this isn't new or exciting in the least bit, even for those who can buy them.

[Fatestorm]

So I guess they weren't being entirely truthful when they said personal housing wouldn't be as pricey as FC housing.

It's exactly the backhanded deception they gave us the first time around with the release of FC housing.

I absolutely cannot believe they did the exact same thing again. Not individual instances... not a new instance... not new zones or parts to the current instances... just MORE of the same. And the same bullshit over-inflated prices. What a joke, and it's on us.

[Nabiri]

I just can't see how this is going to work out.. I don't understand why SE would make this decision.
Having personal housing the SAME price as FC housing? Good luck getting a large house..
And in the same wards? So FCs and personal buyers have to fight over space now? Why? I just don't understand.

I thought personal housing would be separate wards, smaller (medium or small) houses, and affordable to the average player. Wouldn't that have been a better idea? I just can't imagine what SE is thinking right now.

This just won't work..

[Yahavage]

What I don't get is... if it's exactly the same... why has it taken so sodding long to implement? And... just... you know what there are no words. Just... wow.

The disappointment is unreal. Thanks for nothing SE, really

[Kaiyoko]

I'm rather disappointed as much as all of you are. I wont be able to add a mansion to my collection just yet!
But Personal Housing is so 2.1 :3




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Though on a more serious note, the prices are significantly less then the ORIGINAL PRICES, for example....

2.1 Prices:



2.38 Prices:

[Bori]

The whole justification for the original FC housing was because "it will be split between it's members".. now the justification for that is because they didn't allot serverspace for it but have zero plans to adjust the pricing. Why not just PULL the housing patch until 2.4 and get the PRICE right ffs.