Why is Housing even desired?

[Eye_Gore]

It does absolutely nothing for you.

Maybe for you it doesn't, but many will disagree. For many of the reasons stated on page 2. It can help you get better at the game. Some see it as an extension of the game. Something else to do when you get down on farming or running around. Its just something else to do and hopefully they add more so that others can reap the benefits of home ownership. The main reason I bought one was for the garden, made a ton of money growing the rare plants and in turn was able to buy better gear,thus making me better at the game. Also for the choco stable, makes leveling the choco alot faster, not to mention able to change the choco color. While does nothing other than a different color, we like customization. But you are right on one thing, to each his own.

[BunnyChain]

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A lot of it, for me, is simply the same allure that dollhouses had when I was a pre- and teen-ager: the ability to create a fantasy of a place where I would like to live, and to include things that I don't have the resources to include in my real life living place. I had some pretty elaborate dolls, and created some pretty elaborate doll furnishings, which taught me things about carpentry, sewing, and origami. The advantage of my BJDs was that I could make anything for them within the scope of my imagination and skill at creation. The disadvantage was the expense, and the fact that, at the end of the day, a doll is still a doll.
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What's your reason for wanting housing?

Funny you mention doll houses... I made a small merchant's wall for my personal house recently and while assembling it, it really looked very much like a little doll house being build. c:

Your reasoning is pretty much why I would want / own a house in this game.

I don't see the whole point in having a "house" and I'm very vocal about it.

What does it do to help you get better at this game? Does it give you a buff? Does it give you extra exp?

It does absolutely nothing for you. People even buy houses for the sake of it and NEVER get in it.

Just a waste of money and space. Same goes to this ridiculous "eternal bond" business. It does not contribute to anything that help u in this game.

Each to their own I guess.

[magdahmhara]

They should just add an instance farm like WoW had. Instead of a little shack they could have a chocobo stable. Most people just want a garden and to color/exp their chocobo. That would free up having to have a house and those that really want one could possibly have a chance at getting one. Personally, I like just having my FC room but there are a lot of people that want their own house.

[T2teddy]

What does it do to help you get better at this game? Does it give you a buff? Does it give you extra exp?

Company actions give you very nice exp gain buffs, crafting/gathering exp gains, reduced durability loss, chocobo exp gain , and lots more.
The stables allow for very quick chocobo leveling, color change
The garden lets you grow in demand plants, harvest seeds etc.
The workshop - airship, even more valuable materials come back from each ship voyage.
Rested experience gain, your own FC chest, menders, vendors, summoning bell.
Any FC that does not yet own a house is at a vast disadvantage to those that do.

[CrimsonThunder]

Reason? For my own personal portrait of Hildibrand of course, what more needs to be said?

[Velisra]

If chocobo dyeing and gardening weren't locked behind housing, I wouldn't want a house. I don't RP, and if I want to play decorator, I'll play RIFT. If my small FC ever gets a plot, we'll build the bare minimum required to unlock the stables and the garden, and that will be that.

It's a stupid system, and it's the one huge stain on FFXIV, which is a pretty great game otherwise.


Edit: And this just makes me sick. I look through the housing wards every time I'm in town. I happened to see a small plot available in Mist just now, and eagerly searched for it, so that I could go there and buy it. I wanted it for the FC, but I didn't have buying privs. My daughter was logging in to fix that, and someone came and took the plot right in front of me. I'm just... wow...

I don't even want to play now.

[aesteval]

Chocobo stable, gardening, workshop, airship, personal space for crafting, person NPC vendors at a convenient access point offering a couple of materials not sold by other NPCs, a roof to try and figure out how to get on top of, a tonberry floor lamp to foolishly step dance on the head of.

[Maero]

Also i am fairly certain crafting stations in house give some sort of exp boost if you use them. We have all the stations in our home
So gardening, crafting stations, FC airship, all things of interest

[Dree-Elle]

They don't need to keep adding land, they need to just make it instanced. Using the current model they'll never have enough plots to go around between every player and FC that wants one, especially when plots have set sizes. Or at least keep FC houses in the wards and move players into instanced housing.

No, if it's got to happen, make instanced housing for those players who WANT instanced hosuing. Leave MY house the fsck ALONE!

[PetiteMalFleur]

I used to own a small house on my last server. I would go there to just idle, meet neighbors, and craft. It was close to the MB and I had a summoning bell inside. I had a retainer placed in the yard to display my raid gear. It was just a really attractive feature to this game.