Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
I doubt anyone purchased FFXIV because they wanted to be a test subject in a social engineering project revolving around housing. There shouldn't be any need for talk about "social consequences and cultural attitudes" when it comes to housing in a game.
Exactly 100% this.

Imagine if our in-game content was the same way. "Oops, you didn't clear EX fast enough, we ran out of weapons to give. Sorry that's life."

Imagine how enraged Savage players would be if only the first 50 groups who cleared in 3 months got their weapon upgrades. Or crafting item loot was a gatekeeping thing of only 20 per year.

Now consider that I've been playing for 10 years without ever owning a Large. There are players who only played for months and got theirs. If this is a social engineering experiment, the only fairness is RNG. And before that, whoever clicked the sign first.

I still think instanced housing is the solution even 10 years later. But maybe the cloud servers will finally allow something similar.