Why are there even small plots?

[Dzian]

Ok , but that doesn't change anything I said. Gil was easy to come by from launch (gathering alone), not to mention how long after launch housing came out. People had tons of time and gil by the time housing came out. I know the prices were higher across the servers but, the buy price for a large was never over 150mil on any server legacy or not. Getting that amount of gil wasn't hard for fc's to raise.

Yes it was. Because FCs didn't last long enough to raise that kind of cash. That's why the wards were so empty..

The total lack of group centric FC content along with super rigid party sizes for all content absolutely destroyed so many free companies.. and very few of those that survived could afford to buy a house..

Housing was meant to be a community thing to ge talkers working together and building bonds. Like you know an mmo.. but everything in this game discourages community, teamwork and social interaction that and pushes solo play.. right down to the msq blatantly telling you. "You cannot progress because you are in a party". or the inability to even send a simple /tell when you or someone is in a duty. Things like that along with a complete lack of free company content destroyed free companies. All they are now is a glorified chat channel...

On topic of small houses. They'd honestly be fine if they just got rid of restrictions. Why can't a small house have 2 or 3 garden plots if they want. Or other dumb restrictions like npcs or crafting benches.

Also if they scrapped the basements and gave them an upstairs in stead that'd probaly make them better. But that'd be hell of a redesign.