This game needs way more wards!

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It is a possibility but when I compare housing with other MMOs, housing in FFXIV is a bad rework of the Aion housing system without the auctions but with more wards.

The consequence is, for all players who wish housing as a QoL, a place for their collections, some kind of nest that can be personalized as it could be in Wildstar, they are totally ignored and then... have no reason the keep a sub active when they fed up with the roulette routine.

I have lost two mansions. The housing as the reason to keep a sub active sounds to me as a very wrong way to consider housing even with subscription matters. Aion show off without the show since... it is pretty easy to have the gils. The "personalization"? Well, the aesthetic by the designers and no way for players to be creative... unless they deal with some meaningless glitchs (some are nice, don't get me wrong, but some just look as a lazy development or... a total missunderstanding of what players can expect from housing) and mostly only for interiors.

To compare with Wildstar, the way SE consider housing is really rigid. It looks somehow like some boring district from a dormitory city.

Even the social aspect has been killed since they opened housing to individual, many many wards are just ghost towns.