Furnishings

[Nabril]

Furniture is expensive in real life. I get that. But this is a video game. Why does it cost millions of credits to outfit a home? All of this is cosmetic. None of it adds to gameplay.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Furniture is expensive in real life. I get that. But this is a video game. Why does it cost millions of credits to outfit a home? All of this is cosmetic. None of it adds to gameplay.

There is nothing else to spend gil on lol.

You could always craft the stuff yourself. I spent very little decorating my house.

[Super_Bee_Brian]

OP... The only practical thing that's worth the money on the market are crafted max level gear. Anything lower is cheap as hell.

On matters of "vanity items", however, EVERYTHING is expensive. My hat was 350,000 Gil and that's actually CHEAP.

[Enla]

Because this game has little to nothing in the way of /actual/ gil sinks. I know at least three people who are at gil cap and practically giving gil away, one of them actually doing just that in the form of a weekly giveaway over on tumblr. As for the furniture itself, the prices vary from server to server but it's all set by the laws of supply and demand. Can it be easily obtained with little demand? The price is going to be cheap. Does it require you to run a dungeon ten times hoping that RNGesus will finally be kind with a high demand? It's going to cost more.

[Hypnotic13371337]

A select few of the housing items are crazy expensive....but thats cause things like the blossom trees/heart fire brazier thing arent around anymore save for mogstation i think? Or use the rare EX item from the most current trial

[Nihility]

all of the basic furnishings are sold from vendors quite cheaply and the vast majority of furnishings are easy crafts that only cost anything because no one can be bothered to do it themself
the only stuff that is really expensive is past event items that can't be obtained anymore or opportunity cost stuff like shinryu's wing is expensive because the scales also make minion and barding as well

[Jojoya]

If you feel like housing isn't adding anything to game play, why are you worried about the cost of furnishings? You shouldn't even be spending gil on housing.

Or is it adding something to your game play after all?

If you stick to the housing vendor, you can furnish a small for less than half a million gil. Don't forget to scan the MB for some of those items first - a lot of time they're listed for less than vendor because player ended up with more than they want or changed their minds.

But if you want the more desirable furnishing, you're going to pay because another player is the source, they want to be compensated for their materials and effort, and people are willing to pay.

[KaivaC]

OP... The only practical thing that's worth the money on the market are crafted max level gear. Anything lower is cheap as hell.

Black Pegasus says hi, young Padawan.

[Limecat]

Appearances are the only persistent content in the game where what you earn today will continue to be useful for any number of years.

[Vidu]

I'd advice you to check out both the vendor in the housing area aswell as the butler/maid/Hokonin that you can place in your own home. Both NPCs sell some standard/basic furniture (like beds, chairs, tables, rugs...) that will allow you to at least furnish your home somehow.
You should also note that some furniture are low level crafting recipes, so you'll be most likely able to craft them yourself instead of paying the high marketboardprices.

And then there is special furniture thats either a highlevel craft or needs special, expensive materials like primal drops, cross breeding crops, items from airships/submarines, rare drops from treasure maps/Aquapolis/Canals or stuff from (timed) nodes thats only needed for the furniture and not in high demand because of that - or that simply isnt available ingame anymore because it was related to past events. (I also need to admit though that a lot of the stuff on the marketboard is overprized - lowlevel items that probably cost like 5k to make are selling for 100k. You're paying for the convenice to not leave your housing area and collect all the annoying mats here.)

Bottomline though: you can totally decorate a nice and "functional" looking home on a budget.

But you'll notice soon enough that cosmetics are the real expensive stuff in this game - for the simple reason that anything thats actually relevant to the gameplay cant be or it would potentially hinder the progression of the more "casual" crowd (aka those people who can only play a few hours a week)