Nope. I've been looking forward to personal housing since release and during a recent period of FF14 addiction I was able to save up a bunch of money, at least for me, thanks to the fishing additions in patch 2.3. I figured that would be enough as Yoshi mentioned something about 850k for a small or something. Seemed reasonable enough. I'd hoped to get a medium I guess.
...but then they ended up being way more expensive and having almost no new plots. Even after they add even more wards with 2.4, it'll probably still be no where near enough.
- I think Large houses should be reserved for Free Companies only. This will give people incentive to join a FC and give FC housing more cool unique features (like the Airship building stuff perhaps) I'd probably suggest they add maybe 2 new basic layouts for Small and Medium each I think. Change the stairs location or make it a smaller floor plan but 3 stories tall etc. Needs more variety.
- To coincide with the above change, a new ward design specifically for personal housing for each city state. It would have no Large plots and thus should allow for a couple smaller plots. It also feels kinda meh that the FC areas are the exact same as the personal areas.
- Make them a bit more affordable. I think 750k - 1.25 Mil for a Small and 1.5 mil to 2 mil for a Medium seems reasonable to me. That doesn't even include the cost for the actual house itself which I might not agree with. If a Medium costs 500k then that should be factored into my cost suggestions above. Apparently some people are crazy and play every day for hours for months and months and making 10+ mil is no biggie for them. It's not that I think everyone on the server should be able to easily get a house, but you shouldn't have to be a psycho who hunts down post-patch market exploits all day for a few weeks to get a house.
I'm just disappointed I guess. I know the prices will almost certainly come down. They seem to put this sort of stuff in at super high prices initially to drain the gil out of the crazy hoarders. They'll add more wards but it may still not be enough. And on top of that, I don't think the houses have much practical use at the moment. I keep asking for storage furnishings so I can organize stuff the way I like or weapons and armor displays so I can decorate my place with cool stuff. Mount big fish I catch on the wall. But they kinda keep saying they can't/won't do that stuff because of server limitations. So dumb.
Still eagerly awaiting Patch 2.4 and the new expansion announcement though!
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