Is Housing a major feature of the game?

[Tillie]

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Nope. Gil sink? Doesn't matter. Still part of the game that some people are paying for with literally no way to access it. Also: those people still have the opportunity to raid. There is no luck or literally how fast they can hit a login button to hit "find group" for a duty. It's there, it's available, them not participating is their choice. Many people have no choice in the housing matter because it is not available to everyone and the "but not everyone participates in ____" is a garbage argument.

There is no excuse and there is no comparison.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

No it's not. Go play the Sims if you want a house.

You don't even need one. You want a convenient MB/Bell? Limsa has you covered. There I just saved you millions.

[NellMoshroca]

functions primarily as a status symbol & gil sink.

It functions that way because it's so poorly implemented. If there wasn't a handful of houses it wouldn't be a "status"(luck) symbol.

[Penthea]

Housing grants a significant advantage to solo players and fcs. Many materials can only be gotten through fc airship missions and many useful plants (including the thavnairian onion) can only be gotten from cross planting. I have literally made millions just from gardening.

We can argue all we like about whether it's a major feature or not. But there is no denying the monetary advantage a player/fc can have when they use their house to its full capabilities. Housing is not only cosmetic.

[AngelCheese77]

I'd just like a place where I can decorate a little and grow some plants.

Oh wait ... can't. No house. (unless something else allows me to do so)

[AlthusRitoto]

Housing is considered a major feature for certain players who do not feel that end game is everything to them. Even if they do raids and end game, some people just do other things as hobbies to play this game and support Final Fantasy XIV. Housing in this game is beautifully done in regards to designs. But the way they hand their housing to players are way too small and inconsiderate.

Comparing to Sims, this is by far better.

[MalRage]

Exactly this. End game raiding isn't something my schedule allows, but popping in for a little every day to garden and help out my friends in fc with the housing stuff WAS something I could have done, if only I was luckier...

[Clover_Blake]

Housing is important to me because I spend too much time in this game, and I love feeling that there's a small spot in Eorzea where I can live. It makes me feel more like a part of the world? Also, housing is a creative tool, a fun one, and thus it'll attract creative players. Raiding isn't for everyone.

[NovaLevossida]

Housing is something that other MMOs have handled better, so I don't see the way FFXIV is mishandling as some reason to continue mishandling it, as if it's justification for the debacle. Moreover, housing was advertised alongside everything else with Stormblood. And of course they have the senselessness to send out emails yesterday advertising housing; I got my email about 10 hours after all the plots had sold out. And to those downplaying player demand for housing, the fact that plots were gone in less than 15 minutes from the server coming up yesterday should have those people really take a step back and think about what that means in terms of player demand.