Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
It's the scope of the additional content you propose to add to that instanced housing that I don't agree with. Like it or not, developer time is limited and working on one project means time not spent on another. Do we have to start losing dungeons, beast tribes and other content so a relative handful of players can have pretend neighbors?

You would also be walling off that content and its potential rewards behind a large gil barrier. Not everyone player is going to want to pay millions of gil to buy instanced housing they don't want to get access to content they do want to do.
That’s a lot of talk I never said.
I never said it should be a housing expansion 6.0... but little upgrades at a time. And housing is content that a ton of players want hence housing plots disappear like hot cakes, in comparison to mah-jong for example. So those handful of players that want personal housing more accessible is clearly larger than those playing mah-jong or lord of verminion.
To be honest you make it sound like gil is actually this precious thing that we currently have and it’s hard to get. People don’t care to make gil because there is no use for it. The prices to upgrade your personal house could simply stay at the same prices we have now for these respective houses, or it could be cheaper to make it more accessible, it wouldn’t matter and that’s beside the point. It would give people incentive to make gil to improve on their homes (and if they do not want and enjoy their small house, that’s fine!)

There's no reason why such NPC interaction couldn't take place in the open world for all players to enjoy regardless of house ownership.
Squadrons and trusts are not NPC interaction in the open world, however they are systems available for all players. How is personal housing different?
House ownership would be open to everyone, so it’s content proposed to the whole playerbase who would enjoy housing. And those that don’t care, can enjoy the other stuff the game has to offer


@Shougun
I love that airship idea btw, it would be great to have something like that ingame