Major changes needed for housing

[Tommara]

Growing plants and raising animals are not housing so Island Sanctuary doesn't satisfy the request for SE to fix the housing system.

Most house owners don't even garden as it is. You might see garden patches in yards but you rarely find anything planted in them. At best Island Sanctuary will satisfy that small percentage of players that only want a house for gardening (and may not even do that depending on what can be grown). It doesn't address the concerns of the remaining players and FCs who want a house for a variety of reasons but can't get one.

The only reason I would ever buy a house in FF14 is to grow Thavnairian onions, but of course, it's a better use of my time to buy them from the market.

I hate to say it, given the recent Asian hate in the US (I have never been given to reason fear because of my race before until now), but I think there's a cultural disconnect.

I was born in Japan, but raised in the US. My Japanese relatives live in what I consider efficiency apartments, despite the fact they are relatively wealthy (by US standards for people living in efficiency apartments). When my aunt came to visit (before Covid), it made her cry to see our houses.

i.e., having a house is much more special in Japan than the US, and so I think the devs are trying to model housing as something really uber and hard to get, as it is in Japan.

Yes, I know, owning a home is hard to get anywhere in the world.

And so I think they should use this opportunity to fulfill people's dreams of owning a home, regardless of how uber they are in this game, and their tolerance for staying up all night clicking on a sign post.

Because that's what video games are for.

Fulfilling fantasies.