Quote Originally Posted by blue_skies View Post
If SE isn't going to instance neighborhoods then they need to massively overhaul apartments. I'd rather pay $50M gil for a penthouse apartment than $5M for some stupid shoe box in a corner. Translate S,M,L houses into Middle, Corner and Penthouse apartments and scale that to hundreds of floors.

The current apartment buildings are fictitious anyway... you could theoretically have a neighborhood-wide building with dozens of penthouses.

Otherwise, the current FFXIV housing system is trash. It manages to be worse than EverQuest which is saying something.
At least EQ2's housing was great. Can't say anything about the original.