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Star Wars Galaxies had exceptional housing, from what I remember.

You could sell items from "NPC"s inside, display damn near everything. Armor, Trophies, weapons, anything.

My friend even made a "dungeon" in the basement he kept "prisoners" in.

And you could open the house to other people or keep it closed. I loved exploring other peoples houses. And you would have Mannequins or NPC's inside which could sell your wares.

I'd like to see that with Retainers, and a way to have mannequins that would display your armor/AF.


As a note: All this SWG was pre-NGE, a long long time ago. In a galaxy far away. So this is to the best of my memory.

When I used to collect furniture for my Mog House in FFXI, I would occasionally joke that it was turning into Animal Crossing: Final Fantasy Edition. (Incidentally, I just picked up a copy of Animal Crossing: New Leaf recently. If anyone wants to friend me, PM me and I'll give you both my 3DS & Dream Suite numbers.) Then a friend started doing the same thing in Phantasy Star Universe.

If they do FC or LS housing for ARR, I'd like to see some kind of bank or vault within said housing. One of my friends is planning on sharing his food from Culinarian, and it would be convenient for him to have a central spot to drop it off.

Something else that could be nice would be an upgraded version of gardening. After all, nothing quite spruces up a house like a garden.

LOTRO had player housing, and it sounds like ARR's will be very similar to theirs, which isn't a bad thing. I also remember the mog house in ffxi. I quit Aion before they implemented their housing, but it sounds similar to that of LOTRO

As much as I love Ul'dah, Limsa's housing has me on the fence!

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/screenshots/ffxiv-1047.jpg

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/screenshots/ffxiv-1048.jpg

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/screenshots/ffxiv-1051.jpg

I managed to find this;

FFXIVInfo Article similar to the one in OP
http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/content/housing-limsa-lominsa-uldah-gridania-large.jpg

Video of some Housing.

Looks like it was from Live Letter VI

I liked my house (as spartan as it was) in FFXI.

There was a reason to go there though because that's where you changed jobs and got stored armor and all of that.

These houses seem to be a bit more fleshed out, and I like the idea of a neighborhood, I just don't know if I'll be using it that much. I'm excited to see them though.

I'd like to own my own house a'la Mog House in XI, though I never really spent much time (or money) in making it seem ... homely.

I am really excited to see some sort of shared Free Company HQ type area though. I hope they flesh that out nicely with areas devoted to FC member crafters able to set up their own "at cost price" shops to assist other FC members. Maybe a trophy room showcasing the FC's achievements in the PvE aspects of the game. Some nice little area that really boosts the feeling of belonging to a community in game.

I don't have a ton of experience with housing, but DC Universe just added it about 6 months ago right before I lost complete interest in that game.

One cool aspect of it was that you could give access to your house to anyone so they could come in too... you could decorate with furniture found as drops from raids and other instances... and they even made a 1v1 PvP arena that you could queue up for that took place in one of the combatants houses... their houses were kind of bland though, every house had the same exact layout with slightly different themes and furniture...

But I did like how you could have a mailbox in your room and crafting tables, vendors to buy supplies and fix your armor at, and other items you could unlock to upgrade your armor using marks (rewards from doing content.)

But in DCUO they quickly turned a good thing into a grind and turned me off completely... having to run dungeons constantly just to "Pay" for your armor upgrades or they would go away within a certain amount of time.

I'm hopeful that FFXIV will do it the right way... so far I'm thoroughly impressed with the game.

I wonder if they wil add crafting recipes for makeing items for the mog house, like carpentry and black smithing for forniture, weaveing for tapestries, goldsmithing for fancey utensils and goblats, alchemy for nice glass wear and lights maybe, i just hope they add alot of cool recipes!

Man thats good to hear, im really excited for crafting and breeding chocobos, it would be cool if you got thropies for killing end game monsters you can display, maybe they could have endgame monsters drop materials used to make super awsome furniture. "Come inside and try out my behemoth paw chair" "you see that candle holder thats made of real behemoth teeth!" Something along the lines of that