Insanely flawed features that still aren't improved.

[Shneibel]

3. Housing System - Another poorly handled feature. Even F2P MMO's nowadays give you *free* housing with no server capacity issues. Here in FFXIV, first you have to save insane amount of gil and then good luck finding a house to see if they're still available. Why?! Let everyone enjoy housing, at least a small plot should be free and available to all characters. See games like Wildstar or Rift, you reach a certain level and a quest pops up "here's the key to your house!". It becomes part of the replay value for the games, so why keep it away from majority of players?

I will not say 4kk-8kk is insane amount of gil, as it is easy to obtain w/o play crafter or hardcore or play 8h/day. Every player have house for free, their first house : The Inn, per city even.

I Honestly don't know why ppl keep complain about housing since the game has multi ways to obtain a house/room.
1. The Inn, the first free house w/o any function but summon retainer, haircut, armoire & log out. Have a chair and table & a mini game.

2. Personal room, the second "house" (it is nearly as big as a small house top lvl), required 300k and in a FC with house, come with decoration and can do exactly as much as a house, but no gardening

3. The house, the luxury house everyone want but don't want to work for it and keep complain on the forum, a lot of legit reason but complain is still complain, come with well everything the personal room can do, with benefit of gardening & you can call it your own (don't know how often you are in here yourself but most of the time the housing ward are empty).

Out of 6, I am strongly against the 3 and only agree with the 1st and maybe 2nd because of inventory space to keep all those glamour gears