Quote Originally Posted by Lunaura View Post
TL;DR Instanced housing with the ability to upgrade your house would be amazing!

Instanced housing could be AMAZING! The idea for it is that it would be attached to the current areas and/or any major cities in an expansion (Sharlayan housing!?). An NPC at the entrance or in a special little alcove/building that lets you ride a boat, or airship travel to it. Boat for cities where there's water, and airship for the others. It could be an island outside the current housing area. Since it would be instanced, this would work for both personal and FC housing. The idea here is that it would work similar to apartments. And since it's instanced why couldn't one person have say, one house in every city? Wouldn't that be amazing? Think of all the decorating! (I believe SWTOR does this and I think it is quite cool, but theirs is more of a condo/penthouse situation. Upgradeable apartments would also be really cool now that I think about it.)

Instanced housing could be SO good! And if someone wants to work up an exorbitant amount of gil and get an instanced house in every city AND fully decorate them all, why not? That would make for so much more gameplay! Especially if there was quests or tasks involved with upgrading the instanced house.
SWTOR does do this, and it works really well. They have both penthouse apartments and large estates (some closer to the size of a ward than an estate in FFXIV terms) with the cost varying depending on the size. And you can buy all of them if you want, but it costs a lot. And if you want to let other players see it, there is a terminal that you can list a decorated house on for public viewing. I would love if there was a similar form of instanced housing in FFXIV! And yes, it absolutely would be a great gil sink and a good way to let everyone have a house if they want one.