Housing

[Eldevern]

Considering the MMORPGs I've played, some seem to overestimate a lot, but really really a lot, the "show off" effect of housing. Many people just want their own place for some kind of QoL or RP. It is not a tour to vist houses of stars and people in California. They really need to get ride on this idea, it's a virtual world where there isn't or really a tiny (less than the mansions numbers in one server) of stars among players (or players know as if they were stars). FFXIV is not some kind of E-Sport game. It's a RPG, not a Hack'n'Slash, not a Battleroyal, neither a MMOFPS.

When there is a player we feel we get along with, we will probably visit his house, but we will never visit all mansions in all wards of the whole server. I owned two mansions for around more or less one year and a half when there were less wards. It was less than one visit a week despite the fact the two mansions were full finished. And I was actively gardening. The wards were already mostly ghost towns at the end of ARR except some places with really big FCs. And with less wards, it was easier to wander.

And the most comon reason to receive a visitor was... they were looking for ideas for their own house.