Personal Housing *SHOULD* be expensive...aka Yet Another Housing Topic

[Phenidate]

I think it comes down to this:

FCs needed special permits because they are essentially VERY well armed mercenary bands settling down in a base within city limits.

Private citizens of a city state last I looked, weren't all homeless however. Giving players individual housing apartment style would have been perfectly acceptable.

All this update did was shit all over the lore by letting players buy housing that FCs needed special sanctions to buy. You're better off buying a guild house solo than waiting for an FC to get it.

[Kosmos992k]

I think it comes down to this:

All this update did was shit all over the lore by letting players buy housing that FCs needed special sanctions to buy. You're better off buying a guild house solo than waiting for an FC to get it.

Unfortunately agreed.

[TheRogueX]

They could have done instanced housing IN the cities. Imagine paying huge amounts of gil to have an apartment that overlooked Ul'dah from up high in the tower, of that had a wonderful ocean view in Limsa. They could make the best apartments limited and have auctions for them, which would be much more effective in draining gil from the economy than this was. I just don't get what happened here.

[Niwashi]

Personal housing should be expensive, otherwise it utterly invalidates the lore surrounding Free Company Housing. Free Companies are allowed to buy house because the 3 cities/Grand Companies allow it as a special privilege. How much more so would it be special for an individual to purchase a house like a Free Company can afford?

Actually, the lore says that it's a special privilege that's been given to adventurers, and we're adventurers. (Actually the restriction to FCs only that existed from 2.1 until today has been a bit against lore.) There are refugees that aren't allowed to buy housing, but we're heroes who have saved Eorzea time and again and are high-ranking members of a Grand Company. Being given a personal house for free would fit the lore perfectly well. (It wouldn't be suitable to the game. I'm just talking lore-wise here.) The cities have already decided that as adventurers, we're important enough to the city to have the right to buy land. What the price of that land is is completely irrelevant to that fact.

[Tayolynn]

I have a feeling, that when they were about to mash that "initiate patch" button, they were joking (and knowingly expecting) among themselves, "Place your bets on how many people are gonna be pissed off about this patch lol".