This game needs way more wards!

[Barraind]

IIRC, wasn't personal housing originally touted as being something separate, and then they ended up just adding it to existing wards?

Things Yoshi-P has said about housing:


12/17/13: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post1685344

Personal Housing
While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.

Personal housing will be far more affordable than free company housing.

Offsite interviews:

Housing is permanent unless you choose to demolish it to recover some of the gil spent.




Followup early 2014 (no official english translation):

"RMT is the reason we didnt add cheap player housing". "We said cheap so people wouldnt think they couldnt afford it. When we said it, we didnt know how much player housing would cost". "Player housing is a thing because FC creation is lowering and plots would go empty".


Patch 3.1:

Housing demolition timer added.

[Skivvy]

Things Yoshi-P has said about housing:


12/17/13: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post1685344

Personal Housing
While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.

Personal housing will be far more affordable than free company housing.

Offsite interviews:

Housing is permanent unless you choose to demolish it to recover some of the gil spent.




Followup early 2014 (no official english translation):

"RMT is the reason we didnt add cheap player housing". "We said cheap so people wouldnt think they couldnt afford it. When we said it, we didnt know how much player housing would cost". "Player housing is a thing because FC creation is lowering and plots would go empty".


Patch 3.1:

Housing demolition timer added.

Thank you! I guess I wasn't searching far enough when I was trying to find this. I definitely remember the bit about them saying they wouldn't tie keeping your house to an active subscription like some other companies do (Hah!), but was evidently foggy on the personal housing being separate.

I can only assume that I took their statement that personal housing would have a completely separate pricing structure to mean they were going to be different things all together.

[Barraind]

Most people thought that at the time.

Theres more about housing out there, but its not easy to find, given that the only wiki/database that kept changelogs isnt around anymore.

The current wiki has all of 2 reference links for housing info, both for 4.2 stuff. One of the guys that has a full ward on one of the legacy servers has a website with everything catalogued, but I cant find it.