why the heck dont they just refurbish the islands into housing?

[ToxieDrop]

like honestly, hear me out here.

you beat EW and as a reward you get your own home island.

all the functionality of a proper XIV house but its on the island.

you can sleep in there and log back in on your land.

when resting in your own home you get a bigger Potential exp buff.

you can level up your island with additional plots for farms and such

you can make item plaques and women/mannequins for showing off the cool gear you
get so you can show off items you got but dont use often for all those relic grind/deep dungeon/ raid fans

and people can put their islands up for visitors so people and friends can visit and see the grand display of the fruits of you labor

literally would mediate one of the most contentious areas of XIV, the housing lotto! you wouldn't even need to get rid of the current housing system for those that like it so those that like the gamble and those that like building their own home can have their fun!

(oh but you could level up your regular Crafters/Gatherers with home making)

what are yalls thoughts?

[Yuniko]

like honestly, hear me out here.

you beat EW and as a reward you get your own home island.

all the functionality of a proper XIV house but its on the island.

you can sleep in there and log back in on your land.

when resting in your own home you get a bigger Potential exp buff.

you can level up your island with additional plots for farms and such

you can make item plaques and women/mannequins for showing off the cool gear you
get so you can show off items you got but dont use often for all those relic grind/deep dungeon/ raid fans

and people can put their islands up for visitors so people and friends can visit and see the grand display of the fruits of you labor

literally would mediate one of the most contentious areas of XIV, the housing lotto! you wouldn't even need to get rid of the current housing system for those that like it so those that like the gamble and those that like building their own home can have their fun!

(oh but you could level up your regular Crafters/Gatherers with home making)

what are yalls thoughts?

Would be cool, and a nice thing to do. But it's not efficent enough for SE to make enough money of, off it. sadly.. that's the truth behind it is. MONEY, IRL capital gain

[Khryseis_Astra]

literally would mediate one of the most contentious areas of XIV, the housing lotto! you wouldn't even need to get rid of the current housing system for those that like it so those that like the gamble and those that like building their own home can have their fun!

I’ve long been an advocate of adding an instanced housing system to supplement the scarce supply of the wards. At this point, I really don’t care where they put it, as long as it’s a fully functional indoor and outdoor housing plot. They could give us a bio dome on the Moon and use the Loporrit hologram tech to let us pick our background scenery/environment. Or they could do as you and many others have suggested, and put it on our Islands.

All they would need to do is have it on a space off to its own, because the big failure of the Cozy Cabin, besides not being able to decorate the interior, was having it right next to the workshops and granaries, with mammets literally in your bedroom. lol it’s more the Island base of operations than it is a vacation home!

I could see them repurposing the UI we have for granary missions to choose the background for your housing plot: Meandering Meadows, Fatal Falls, etc. which would give those different environments to choose from so far as background scenery goes. Over time, they could add new backgrounds, like we occasionally get new house skins.

I know they seldom revisit old content, but it’s not unheard of. They did a complete rework of Diadem after all. But I really think if they announced that the lifestyle content for 8.0 was “we’re going back to the Island, but this time you’re building a house!” People would be thrilled! I know I would be, because I feel like there’s so much more they could’ve done and added to the Island and it sucks to feel like it’s just abandoned content.

The only downside I could see is that if instanced housing goes on the Island, it would probably stay locked like the Island is: friends, FC members and party members only. But while that’s a downside for some, it’s an outright bonus for others who may have in-game stalkers, or simply want a house and yard to decorate and don’t care if only their friends get to see it.

[CCheshire]

But then, where would your mammets live?

Also, I'm not into IS, but I recall Yoshi-p saying not to have too many hopes for it, along with it not being instanced housing either. Now it's completed, old content we'll never see any major changes to it, other than ppl grinding for exclusive rewards.

[ToxieDrop]

thats what makes me sad tbh. XIV has the potential to be a brilliant MMO but the people behind it (Square Enix, CBU3, literally everyone that has control over the end product that we play) seem to be floundering it hard and are un willing to actually hear out parts of the player base (the people who actually make their paychecks and give the game the life it has)

[ViinaS]

Honestly?
Greed and/or incompetence.

Those are the reasons.

I bet they either don't want that to keep people chained to their houses
or simply have no damn idea how to do it, the usual spaghetti code excuse and such.