Why do you want a House?

[Dyvid]

I'm curious as to what makes owning a House in FFXIV so appealing? Is it the benefits like gardening? The size vs apartments? The outside yard? What features is it that make it so appealing to the masses?

[ItMe]

I like making a place with more than 1 level to it.
I have an FC room I enjoy and I'm always toying with, but even a small house with its basement and yard is a very different creative canvass and one I find myself preferring.

[Vahlnir]

I like having a little slice of the game to call my own and customize as I see fit. It also provides me with a gil sink almost every patch. lol

[Theodric]

I'm lucky enough to own a mansion and the difference between it and apartments/smaller housing plots is truly equal to the stark contrast of night and day. There's so much more room to work with both inside and outside. So when a new patch goes live and new furniture I like is added, there isn't too much of a struggle making it fit in a way that feels natural due to the amount of space.

It's also neat to have somewhere that I can invite friends to hang out in.

[Seleni]

I got tired of having to glitch to put items (bed etc) on the loft, as well as partition walls blocking camera and making it all felt cramped, so I wanted a 2-story home. (I still ended up putting up a loft in my basement studio though.)

Then there’s just preconceived notion of a dream home being a standalone house with yard, and I wanted my character to have a home. Gardening was just a nice additional benefit.

Oh and I was hoping for a better view when stepping outside. When I step out of my LB apartment I’m greeted by the empty backside of a Paissa mansion and a wooden glade wall house. I had no idea how house exteriors work back then, so I even made some cheap glade windows to put on the market, hoping maybe they’d pick it up and place some windows/decorations on the back side…

[Arielen]

I REALLY love decorating! I use apartments and FC rooms for certain builds that are small and don't require tons of items, but I also have a lot of housing ideas that require a larger area to play with. With a medium, I often find myself frustrated with the layout and ceiling height so I'd love to have a large to puddle around with. I also roleplay a lot, so the spaces I create are usually relevant to my characters (even with a personal, I used an apartment often for a different IC space like a room inside the Inquisition building) or to my rp partner's — some of my builds only last a week or two, some even just a few days for when there's a scene we want to do that we can't find an open air space for. I probably wouldn't be as housing obsessed if we could enter all the houses in the over-world.

Other than that, I actually do garden very diligently and generally just like hanging out at a space that I made, tinkering around with it whenever I have new ideas. Our FC subs are a bit neglected because I'm depressed about the time they require to level, but it's something I'd like to explore more.

[LaylaTsarra]

i live in housing districts especially my gardens when i'm in game and not in a duty for the most part.

[Besame]

I enjoy decorating and having a place to spend time while crafting, etc. I DO NOT like hanging out in big cities. I see and hear too much inappropriate kiddy garbage and bot spam there.

[Rofel]

I love customization. Playing since 2013 I really like the idea of building a lasting, tangible... something for my character.

It's also nice to have a area on your own, the way you like it, with access to vendors and chests without the noise of the main cities.

I like the concept of cross breeding in gardening, wish it was more accessible in apartments.

[Sotaris]

I'm curious as to what makes owning a House in FFXIV so appealing? Is it the benefits like gardening? The size vs apartments? The outside yard? What features is it that make it so appealing to the masses?

Serval reasons:

- Decorations
I enjoy decoration. A apartment or fc room is to small, that's why I own a large so I have space (not slots though, they really need to increase the limit) so I like to change design on a regular basis.
inb4 "go play sims" comments

- Gardening
I do a lot of cross-breeding gardening so another reason to own a personal large as I can use 3 gardening plots.

- Relaxing spot
I can relax with just afking, crafting etc at my own place instead of having a lot of bs going around in the cities and getting spammed with RMT shouts and so on.

As for FC house:

All of the above + workshop.