Horrifyingly bad experience

[Roda]

Housing reborn, lets do this.

HOA comes in wearing bahamut costumes wielding baseball bats.

[KayRadley]

One word.

Apartments.

[Vahlnir]

One word.

Apartments.

3 words.

Not the same.

Apartments are just FC rooms without the FC requirement. A small, compact space that, while giving the basic features of housing (decorating) it doesn't go far enough. Is it better than nothing? Oh yeah, definitely. Is it the same as regular housing? Not even close. Apartments are far more limited in that they don't allow for outdoor furnishing and customization, as well as providing an extremely small space for people to work with.

[Bright-Flower]

3 words.

Not the same.

Apartments are just FC rooms without the FC requirement. A small, compact space that, while giving the basic features of housing (decorating) it doesn't go far enough. Is it better than nothing? Oh yeah, definitely. Is it the same as regular housing? Not even close. Apartments are far more limited in that they don't allow for outdoor furnishing and customization, as well as providing an extremely small space for people to work with.

If apartments could be upgrade a la Animal crossing houses I think they might be a better replacement, though that would still lack the exterior part.

[Big_Bap]

3 words.

Not the same.

Apartments are just FC rooms without the FC requirement. A small, compact space that, while giving the basic features of housing (decorating) it doesn't go far enough. Is it better than nothing? Oh yeah, definitely. Is it the same as regular housing? Not even close. Apartments are far more limited in that they don't allow for outdoor furnishing and customization, as well as providing an extremely small space for people to work with.

Apartments are exact copies of small houses when housing came out, minus the garden. With some small houses having a sticker price of 50,000,000 gil, you have to be delusional to complain about the current apartments.

[Bright-Flower]

Apartments are exact copies of small houses when housing came out, minus the garden. With some small houses having a sticker price of 50,000,000 gil, you have to be delusional to complain about the current apartments.

Just because a system used to be worse than it is today doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement still.

[Big_Bap]

Just because a system used to be worse than it is today doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement still.

Worse? It wasn't. The shortage of houses started to happen when they tried to make it better and look at the mess we're in. Be grateful an apartment costs you 1% of what some small houses used to cost. You want improvement... get a house.

[Kidria]

Wasn't one of the issues of an 'instanced house on it's own lonesome plot' the idea that gardening is (through the code somehow) tied to weather, which if needing to be applied to endless instanced houses, could lead to some severe data congestion?

[SoulEchelon]

Wasn't one of the issues of an 'instanced house on it's own lonesome plot' the idea that gardening is (through the code somehow) tied to weather, which if needing to be applied to endless instanced houses, could lead to some severe data congestion?

You can have planters inside your home, so at this moment in time weather isn't a factor when it comes to gardening.

[Fym]

I like having neighbors with whom I can interact. With instanced housing, wouldn't your house be a "stand-alone" area cut off from others?