Are the Islands better than owning a house?

[Gralna]

Nearly, but not quite. With a house you can use the housing gardening system and chocobo stable to train your chocobo.

Though if you get an apartment, then only thing you're missing out that a person with a house has, is the gardening system. With island you'll now actually be able to use those outdoor furnishings all of the seasonal events reward.

I'd actually argue that the island is better for outdoor decorating than even a large plot.

[Mimilu]

Hey now, don't shame.

I would never. If Sagacious wants to partake of these watery pleasures, I encourage it! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

[MsQi]

Yes understood but if you didn't have a house would the island be a viable option?

If all you want is “thing to invite people to so you can show off what you did” then I guess it’ll do fine. They are still two very different things with a small amount of crossover.

[chip793]

They're not a stand-in for housing. You can't do several things a house is actually useful for on your island (Thavnarian Onion my beloved, workshop, summoning bell. The list goes on.) It's just a gussied-up minigame with the depth of a puddle. Slice of life "content" that until recently had no real incentive to continue playing once you hit max rank. Even now you can just schedule vouchers within a day or two after buying all the blue cowrie unlocks with little to no need to grind for mats thanks to granaries and automated farming. The best part is that doing so each week future-proofs you from any new blue cowrie unlocks they might add.

[Wolferey]

I mean, the only point to have a house besides bragging/(illegally?) selling it is:
- A spot to gather
- A spot to decorate
- Gardening

they barely do the first 2, its limited to like 16? players and they have to be on your friendslist to begin with, no way to get your entire FC to hang there, and you only decorate the outside and its better than housing, but no inside/actually customizing the house... and the last one they don't let you do at all (the crop thing is not the same gardening). So in all regards, island is not better than housing.. though not by much, the only bonus is you don't have a digital mortgage now, everyone gets an island and you won't lose it if you unsub, though the island itself is more a curse brought upon us by Tataru if you ask me.

[DiaDeem]

Well... not entirely, but as far as furnishings go, you just register an item and then you can place as many as you want of said item, so you can build a lot of creative stuff outside.

[Chasingstars]

Apartment? Decorating, very limited gardening.
Private house? Gardening plots, decorating.
FC house? As the prior but also comes with a workshop which is fairly substantial.

The island sanctuary is more like an outdoor version of a FC house, but instead of airships and submarines, its cowries and what rewards they offer. But still misses out on having a lot of gardening plots.

[Bacent]

And they put a hole above your bed so that when it rains, it rains right on top of your pillow. (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

Hope you're wetty for bed

[Myon88]

Islands have 90 outdoor furnishing slots and large mansions only have 40. Think about that for a second. Not only is it more than double the quota of the largest housing option, everyone gets one instead of it being a privilege only a small handful of players enjoy.

If we ever get an equivalent indoor version, I would consider the XIV housing 'problem' solved. This is literally half the piece of that solution and islands are not getting anywhere near enough credit for that.

Of course, this assumes you value housing in this game as a creative outlet for decorating, which I hope people do. That is the primary and most important purpose of the housing system. Subs and gardens are just soulless gil factories, they're not as important.

[sagacious]

Islands have 90 outdoor furnishing slots and large mansions only have 40. Think about that for a second. Not only is it more than double the quota of the largest housing option, everyone gets one instead of it being a privilege only a small handful of players enjoy.

If we ever get an equivalent indoor version, I would consider the XIV housing 'problem' solved. This is literally half the piece of that solution and islands are not getting anywhere near enough credit for that.

Of course, this assumes you value housing in this game as a creative outlet for decorating, which I hope people do. That is the primary and most important purpose of the housing system. Subs and gardens are just soulless gil factories, they're not as important.

Thank you for realizing that island don't get enough credit for solving 1/2 the housing issue ...