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I totally agree with Naunet here. I can understand the point of view of folks who say "It's not so bad", and "there are already so few money sinks in game", but at the same time it just feels like needless stinginess to me.
I've played a lot of MMOs. In some of those I've grown quite wealthy. In Final Fantasy, on the other hand, I've mainly just RPed. I have a level 50 character, and I do some endgame content, but I mainly play the game to RP. I think my bank topped out at about 100k, but I donated most of that to my FC as a symbolic gesture towards getting a bigger FC house. There's simply no way I'm going to be able to afford personal housing without radically changing the way I choose to play, and it's simply not worth it to me to do so. Which is a little sad, because personal housing is really a piece of fluff content which is right up the alley of a roleplayer.
It is interesting to compare housing in FFXIV to housing in other games. Someone already pointed out FFXI. In Lord of the Rings Online, you can buy a small house with the money you get from questing up until level 50 (the level cap at the time housing was introduced), even assuming you spent a bunch on gear along the way. If you spent a very little amount of time farming, you could afford a deluxe house. EverQuest 2 gave you a free inn room, and larger houses were easily affordable by characters far lower than max level. Star Trek Online doesn't have housing, but you can enter your ship, invite others and roleplay without spending a dime. So what is it about SE where they feel that the only way to buy housing is to farm gil? Nothing against farming gil, but it's not why I pay to play this game.
I've played a lot of MMOs. In some of those I've grown quite wealthy. In Final Fantasy, on the other hand, I've mainly just RPed. I have a level 50 character, and I do some endgame content, but I mainly play the game to RP. I think my bank topped out at about 100k, but I donated most of that to my FC as a symbolic gesture towards getting a bigger FC house. There's simply no way I'm going to be able to afford personal housing without radically changing the way I choose to play, and it's simply not worth it to me to do so. Which is a little sad, because personal housing is really a piece of fluff content which is right up the alley of a roleplayer.
It is interesting to compare housing in FFXIV to housing in other games. Someone already pointed out FFXI. In Lord of the Rings Online, you can buy a small house with the money you get from questing up until level 50 (the level cap at the time housing was introduced), even assuming you spent a bunch on gear along the way. If you spent a very little amount of time farming, you could afford a deluxe house. EverQuest 2 gave you a free inn room, and larger houses were easily affordable by characters far lower than max level. Star Trek Online doesn't have housing, but you can enter your ship, invite others and roleplay without spending a dime. So what is it about SE where they feel that the only way to buy housing is to farm gil? Nothing against farming gil, but it's not why I pay to play this game.