Is Housing a major feature of the game?

[Khemorex]

No and since my text is to short i say it again No

[xbahax92]

Yes.

After your long work fighting various primals, collecting some herbs for the poor and playing the Warrior of Light, you just need a place you can hide from all those ever needy NPC's ...
And ofcourse glamour and housing is the real endgame. Oh and ofc you need a place where you can ERP in privat.

[ElHeggunte]

I think that everyone should be able to own a house, but I also think people blow their importance and usefulness way out of proportion.

[Yuumei]

Housing is a feature.
Just like Duty Roulette is a feature.

But housing is the only feature that is denied to the majority of the player/customer base because they failed to click an object within a few mins of the game coming out of maintenance.
Replace the word housing with other features such as "Raiding, beastman dailies / chocobo license / gold saucer access etc" and it should be abundantly clear to everybody as to why some players are upset.
It's sad how there are people out there who still fail to see this, or erroneously attribute it to player-attitude problems/demands for freebies.

[LastFireAce]

I don't think is a major Importants but huge disappointment when you have around 81mil save up to buy a place of your dreams just to no get one because somone got it 1min after Maitance ended lol

[rhosaria]

Se needs to make more wards period. Its obvious its an issue. People keep going on about it (its obvious) youre talking about it right now...the fact youre talking about it..means its an issue and u are clearly aware of it. Se is a company...they are not stupid. They are very much aware of it. They choose not to fix it. so ... .now what? hmm

[Laerune]

It depends on the player, an example: I dont do Savage Raiding, so for me this part of the game is not a major feature for me and if it was up to me, developers would not have spend time and money in creating them, but others do like them and for the hard-core raiders this is a major feature.

Since housing provides certain features that are exclusive to it, I think one could call them a major feature and if you look at the forum, you will see that people are very vocal about it.

[Felmin]

Just like casual and hardcore playstyle, what is a major feature of a game is subjective to each and every player.

Given how the community is reacting to the shitfest that occurred today, I could also make a safe assumption that housing is a major feature for majority of FFXIV players.

[Jonnara]

I come for the Adventure and the story of the game, I stayed because of sim-housing. Joking aside, after finishing all the weekly tome stone farming, I literary spend hours doing the house make over. So Yes, I'd say housing is a Major feature of the game.

[Aronys]

Not really. I've been playing since 2.1, when housing was first introduced. I remember our small FC saving for a house and getting it like a few weeks later (this was on Balmung, and yes housing back then wasn't this bad lol). But I never really thought "Oh I have to have a personal house or I can't play this game!", because... I didn't come to this game for housing. This year, so like 3 and half years later, I moved from Balmung and I did get a small personal house because I could. I had spare gil and I randomly stumbled upon a small house in LB. It's a nice location, it's on its own island, I can fish in my backyard and all, it's really cool. Have a little personal bridge leading to it and I really do enjoy being in LB. But even when I found the empty plot, I was debating with a friend if I should go for it for like an hour or so. I wanted to experience gardening mostly, tbh, so I went for it. I love it, but... it's not why I play. I got an apartment in Shirogane today so I can have cheaper teleportation to that part of the world, mostly. But... is it a major feature? No. You can experience almost everything in the game without it. Heck, just get an apartment and you can experience almost everything but advanced gardening and plopping down outside furniture.