player housing should be available to everyone.

[Dfess]

Instead of having to build a house, they should have static houses that are instanced and available to everyone to buy once they get the money. I never understood why they never did this. (Before you say, "you just want a house cause you cant get one blah blah." I've already owned a house. Stopped playing for a while because rl stuff happened. Im not currently looking for a house nor did I miss out on one. Although I do have an issue with waiting 24-48 hours before I can buy a house.)

[TwiibieTwuu]

Ffxi had mog houses.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Mog_House

Everyone got one.

[Dfess]

had

I only just started in stormblood. I had never heard of that before though.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Are Mog homes that different from apartments? There are a huge amount of apartments available.

[Esmoire]

I think to start they should expand apartments, giving them balconies where you can place outdoor furnishings and enjoy gardening.

[Dfess]

That's the thing I dont ger. They did it with apartments. There's no reason they can't do it with houses.

[TwiibieTwuu]

Are Mog homes that different from apartments? There are a huge amount of apartments available.

Somewhat.

Unlike FFXIV apartments, moghomes were free and had a second floor. I think they also gave buffs on how you decorated them?

They had storage too.

[Eldevern]

This is a recurring question. There is no reply except Y-P saying more or less : this is a server ressources problem, or "we don't want instancied system" or some player who imagine if we can't get a house it is because of price (they don't even realize some players have enough to buys several mansions but cannot because of the current system : availability matters).

Inn, FC rooms, interiors of houses and apartment are instancied. The only things that is not instancied in wards are garden. They pretend they prefer wards to keep housing areas lively but each time I go there, it is dead empty...

[ElazulHP]

I always liked the idea of an airship house with multiple skyboxes/locations you could fly too and park yourself. Could have the zones be flyable in and also have random other players airships floating around with different "plots" being randomly assigned when you enter the zone and there are as many zones as needed to be filled. Example: Once you reach the limit in one zone another is created, ect. That way you still have the "neighborly" zone, but also have the instanced housing. Though I admit I have no idea what it would take to do something like this.

[BunniEclair]

I find the neighborhood design quite charming, and enjoy spending occasional downtime poking around in the wards.

But aside from my personal preference, I think it would be too much trouble, if not impossible, to change the current system so dramatically so as to completely get rid of the neighborhood design. I think expanding the apartments with a deck and maybe a second floor would be a great compromise until the next MMO, where they can take this sort of major change into consideration.