So You Want A House in FFXIV

The most difficult of trials: Home Ownership
0:00 - Player Housing
3:07 - The Wards
7:06 - Mists
9:05 - Lavender Beds
13:29 - Empyreum
15:05 - Shirogane
17:23 - Customization
24:07 - Wishlist
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[@walkseva]

"I'm a habitual warrior who rages across Hydaelyn; my spouse is an interior decorator for moogles. Together, we have a budget of 40 million gil."

[@erockbaby3000]

And crazy enough unlike these types of stories in real life in FFXIV thats actually reasonable

[@forestmaiden2316]

with 40 Mill you won't get a Large, but All mediums are within your budget, with plenty to spar on decorations

[@baronfuath5872]

@@forestmaiden2316 there are a couple 40 mil larges. saw some when my FC was shopping around. they arent the best quality plots but they are the cheapest i've seen so far.

[@machineheadg2r]

MORE LIKE 40GIL

[@jericm151]

I finally won a plot yesterday in Shirogane and while I was putting the inside furnishings together, someone was coming in and out of my house. I went outside and the same person sent me a tell. "Hello! Welcome to the neighborhood!" Thank you, random person. Happy to be here.

[@shizzlebizzfizz]

I could never quite articulate what I liked about these grinding gear videos but after watching you guys go through the msq and reviewing all the aspects this game has to offer it's really charming and endearing. Like these videos feels like those innocent times from the early 2000s on youtube and I mean that in the highest form of compliment ever. Like they are undisturbed from any outside forces and you guys seem to remain perfectly candid and blind to any spoilers or whatnot and it's always cozy to watch these.

[@Rakka5]

Agreed. Followed literally dozens of streamers play through FF14 and this channel still feels really unique. I think the fact that it's somewhat of a co-op playthrough really gives it a special feel, since it opens up much more discussion around topics than what you would see from a solo streamer channel. Also helps that they don't agree on everything and have different tastes, so topics can be examined from different angles.

[@highbrowstonebender7063]

My best and briefest way of putting it: "They have a really organic back-and-forth that keeps the flow of conversation enjoyable and entertaining!"

[@Tessa_Ru]

The duo really helps make it feel unique, but I think a lot of it is they're one of the few streamers that are here for the fun. They have opinions/discussions, but they're not trying to shove guides in my face or constantly tell me what I should think about events/drama/game changes/etc. Feels like a space to just hang out and enjoy the good vibes.

[@Happypuppy6666]

It's their voices, I love there ff xiv videos but it's their voices

[@LeafStranger]

Empyreum is also special to a lot of players because the Firmament quests deal with restoring and building the area. Players are invested (somewhat literally) in the district because of the Ishgard Restoration process.

[@jericm151]

oh GOD THE MEMORIES OF BUILDING EMPYRIUM ARE COMING BACK!

[@vermillionwing]

Part of the Goblet hate comes from the intrinsic qualities of Goblet housing. The support pillars/ support beam/arches and the stone staircase/railings are EXTREMELY large and intrusive compared to the other zones, nearly 1.5x-3x larger. LB housing have slimmer pillars/beams and nice wooden stairs. Mist have wooden half stairs with no railing at all. Shirogane/ishgard have unique aesthtics but are not particularly intrusive. (You can see some of this in the video itself, when they look at the walls or up towards the ceiling.) The goblet meanwhile has large blocky staircases with railing bits the size of small tables that are even larger than some actual tables, support pillar bases which stick out around 2 grid squares and are slightly too wide to hide behind partitions cleanly, and reverse m shaped support beams that are taller than lalafel's at some places. This makes it hard to build around those pillars, and harder to "hide" those pillars behind your own wall set up in terms of space usage. The support arches also make it harder to build vertically as "reasonable" floor expansions (around 60-70% of the way up) will cause taller races to get stuck on the support beams that stick out.

[@nogling]

Honestly, the Goblet's interiors aren't terrible....it's the grid misalignment that makes me want to tear my hair out every time I get a Goblet commission.

[@qamarqammar7629]

I had to cover up a lot of pillars making my walls there. But I put even more pillars back in. I love the bold architecture of base Goblet walls.

[@AoiKaze2000]

FYI We don't know if Island Sanctuaries is going to come with housing or not, and as Yoshi-P went completely dark on that content, it would really be best NOT to hype it up as personal housing. I've rarely seen Yoshi-P do that, and that's usually because he doesn't want the playerbase to hype something up and expect X when he's really trying to deliver Y.

[@ThemisElidibun]

Watching you guys do this housing tour was actually what prompted me to move my main and join your FC. I loved watching everything people had done with their homes, it was impressive and way more creative than I ever thought to be. To every single person who shared their homes with us last Thursday, thank you.

[@Amovetv]

Thanks for joining us!

[@rambone009]

Tip; Before buying furniture, buy a bunch of dyes you like for a colourscheme. (Like 99 dyes off the marketboard). One you start putting down furniture, you can dye most of them and it really helps make the room feel cohesive

[@ginacirelli1581]

TIL you can dye furniture. Off I go to decorate my currently empty apartment!

[@JepMZ]

TIL that TIL is actually Today I Learn. It finally clicked lol

[@canatsey]

Best suggestion I have is to use the Housing Preview option in the housing Menu once you get your first house. It lets you see each possible Housing item and place it around the space to see if you would like how it went well together. I used that and made a google spreadsheet to identify what (and how many) of each item I wanted and then make a plan to acquire said item. It's also possible for you to go grab an Apartment, you can have one as well as a house. You can use the apartment to start to store housing materials you like, to test out the Housing Item Preview to start working on collecting your items and even get practice is designing the space!

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

On the tiki bar: The south sea isles have been teased as a possible future location we get to visit and we know from summer festival quests they have a Polynesian aesthetic. Might get the tiki bar stuff then.

[@niteritr]

Hi from Catte Cottage! Our loft setup required A LOT of our item space, so we don't have room for interior holiday decorating, really, because we are at cap. What we DO have is space outdoors. When the holidays come we switch in a holiday decoration instead of one of our Wisteria trees - a tree for Starlight, pumpkins for All Saint's Wake, a mask display for Moonfire Faire. Sometimes we switch out the food on the dining table for something season appropriate (We have watermelon right now, for example), we can change the flowers in the vases without worrying about item space, and sometimes we'll do a swap of a minor accent item - provided we don't have to float it. AND, the best way to change the "feel" of a place for a holiday if you don't have the space is to change the music on the Orchestrion playlist. We have ours currently running with a lot of the calm, chill themes from around the world, lending to the "cozy" feel, and I threw in some ones that sounded more summery, too.

[@Rc3651]

I think part of the reason the Goblet gets shade is because it used to literally look worse. They've updated it visually a few times, including adding / expanding that oasis in the center. I think some of the stigma stuck around even though it's quite nice now. Kind of like how Dragoon is permanently the Floor Tank even though it's infinitely better than it was during ARR when it truly earned that title. People meme on it, then new players without context spread the memes, and eventually you're memeing about something that was largely fixed or improved years ago

[@michaeltoy1813]

I do wish we had a simple plot trade system. I'd gladly give my plot in shirogane for one in lavender bed.

[@infornogr4phy]

We kinda did with insta relo till they took it away. Edit: I know people are saying they took insta relo away because RMT but the sad truth is people are still selling housing and circumventing the 30 day timer. I know this is the best they can come up with but still sucks.

[@dafire9634]

Insta relo was taken away because it was being used for RMT

[@balcanoy]

RMT is why we cant have these things. Sad but true

[@infornogr4phy]

@@balcanoy i know. I edited my comment because while they did it to stop RMT it literally does diddly squat

[@michaeltoy1813]

Got mine in shirogane with the old system on a random whim thinking "Ain't no way in hell I'll be getting it." as I'm challenged by friends that just a small try ain't gonna hurt. Lo and behold I pissed off 6 FC folks one my 1st attempt.

[@jessicajones641]

I knew I had to move to Ishgard. HW will always hold a special place in my heart because it was the first gaming experience I’ve had when I was hooked to the plot and I legit cried multiple times. I fell in love with the music, the themes, the characters…so when they opened housing there I knew I needed to live there. I haven’t been able to snag a house, but our FC just won a house so I’ll take that as a win. (I also bought an apartment in Ishgard just because lol)

[@denniswise6782]

Swapping out holiday items is very easy. Each house has a storage area as well, it's like putting something on a retainer. It's there but not placed or visible. Smalls have a 200 item limit to storage. You can store away the previous holiday items there and pull the new ones out of the housing storage.

[@OceanFragments]

You guys really need to see the Aquarium FC. Every room is a different aquarium display, showing off fish from every area of the game, and ending on a shark tank.

[@udiar]

For the season thing I have a friend that decorate his house for the in game holidays his been playing since ARR so what he does is he uses event items from past years of the season and as soon as the seasonal even is on he gets multiple of the housing items and puts them in the house. He usually leaves them on until the next season.

[@sleepysera]

On the topic of holiday decorations: Yeah, you basically just leave a few slots open (I usually go with 10-15 in Medium houses) and keep decorations for all seasons in the storage so you can put them up whenever it is appropriate 😊 It's nice to also have a set of "neutral" ones for the same spaces for some longer periods where no holidays happen (early summer is quite barren, in that regard). I have one entire house's storage (300 slots) just dedicated to all the seasonal decorations I collected over the years, haha. Seasonal yards are a bit harder, tbh it's easier to just rebuild them entirely whenever the season changes, since the very low furniture limit makes it hard to just keep slots open for seasonal stuff. Great video! Housing is definitely end-endgame and one of my favourite things to mess with in XIV :D I've seen pictures on tumblr of someone building a recording booth and it looked insanely realistic, but sadly can't find it with a quick google search. But know that yes, it's totally viable :D

[@TheIvoryDingo]

Meanwhile, I got myself an apartment in the Mist for the purpose of cheap travel as well as furniture storage recently and I think that'll be enough for me.

[@erockbaby3000]

Yeah I’m waiting until the Endwalker or Shadowbringers main cities get housing right now I’m cool with my little apartment in Shirogane

[@robbaskerville253]

Plus you can let sub slip for a few months without risk of loosing your apartment, unlike a house.

[@MrRustywood]

Just want to say I love the intros every week. So imaginative! Keep smashing out the great content :)

[@___-___-___-___-]

Thank you again for visiting my(Zaajee) in game house! I'm happy it was neat enough to show in this video, because I was amazed by everyone else's houses!

[@fennyfenris]

Not that into housing myself but damn do I love going to events in houses and appreciating the creativity of the players.

[@udiar]

I love your msq videos so much but your reviews of features in the game sell me even more to play this game and I've been playing since ARR when NIN came out.

[@skoote]

A tip I received from a friend on managing the item limit in a medium or large house: pick 2 floors to focus on, and decorate the last with whatever slots you have left.

[@Wogle]

I started in Ul'Dah so I'm constantly trying to find a plot in The Goblet. A bit torn though. I'd love the beachfront of The Mists, but I also love the central area of the Goblet. Reminds me a lot of the resort I stayed at in Dubai.

[@Delithara]

was able to catch a little bit of the housing stream you guys did, so glad to hear your opinions about each ward. was hoping to share my home in Shiro, but gotta have to wait for that Data Center travel for that.

[@DiscardLogic]

When it came to decorating my home in the game, I actually spent time gathering a stockpile of gil and housing items. Thought up a theme for the outside & inside then hired another player that was more experienced in fully utilizing the housing system. There are players that actually specialize in home decorating that they spend their time earning gil through decorating other players homes. It's always awesome to discover the amount of ways you can have fun in FF XIV.

[@1033515]

Can't wait until DC travel exists so we can go house hopping across data centers.

[@joshuarogers7405]

I got my personal small housing in the latest housing update in the Ishgard area. I’ve got inside and outside at max items but I don’t think what I have is what will stay forever. And I like the idea of your first time with a housing just going at it myself to see what I come up with creatively even if it’s not the best. In the future I’ll steal more idea and designs to make it a little more aesthetically cohesive and pleasing. For now it’s the ramshackled mess of what I earned in game and what I could afford on the market.

[@KatyWhitekavkj]

Same here - just got a small there but I’m not buying anything off the market boards - I’m trying to craft everything myself or use stuff my retainers bring. Currently keeping my place shut until I’m happy to show it off - my talents are well short of those housing pros you see on KZbin though!!

[@MothDmotte]

My personal tip for decorating is to choose 1-2 centerpieces depending on the room size and then build around them to accentuate them. For a library it would be the fireplace with the cushy armchair - in a bar it's the bar table or the alcohol shelf. It just depends on which items you deem most important

[@eerarim9761]

Your video was much needed for guidance, you deserve to be rewarded for this work of passion and just pure happiness. Now I am keeping anything housing related and saving gil for my future homes. :)

[@Gassy555]

I’m very curious about the island sanctuary. The way they described it as not animal crossing makes me think it will be more air b&b then housing.

[@AgentRedShirt]

It’s not. It’s an instanced place for your minions to run around. But it’s not housing.

[@MissXaverie]

4:23 Hey that's my viera! This isn't our house, but some FC friends and I were just chillin in the ward and were surprised when everyone started showing up. It was fun looking around with you all!

[@EstherNuckels]

For holidays, my fc has stuff in the housing storage and the fc chest to swap out easily. Also with fc housing you will get into airship and submarine crafting. (An extra way to get special mats and items). Good luck on your bid

[@Rakka5]

I feel like they need to vastly increase the available housing disctricts by the next expansion release. The current amount (without Ishgard) was created for the ARR/HW era population, and the game is vastly more popular nowadays. Also limiting districts to FC only was a giant mistake.

[@nspaulding07]

I agree. To me, it seemes the best middle ground would be to have something like wards 1-6 be FC-only, wards 21-26 be individual-only, and the rest be a free-for-all. That way, as the ratio between FC and individual demand fluctuates, the system naturally fills out that demand.

[@coderpup4639]

I think they are hoping the island sancturys may help the issue. A lot of people may be happy with theire island and no longer feel they need a house in a district. We'll have to wait and see.

[@Gassy555]

I wonder if it’s a server limitation for ward size the the number of them.

[@Kasaaz]

@@coderpup4639 This is what I assume. I think there are technical limitations on how they originally set up the backend for housing districts that make them way more resource intensive than they'd like and I'd bet a lot of 'creative' solutions are going in to the Island Sanctuaries to avoid those issues.

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

Except there’s been no confirmation we’re even getting housing with island sanctuary. People are assuming, but the devs have been very very silent on that feature’s details.

[@seekittycat]

In my time in this game I've been to plays (complete with set changes and lighting changes), conventions, concerts, clubs, Halloween mazes, home-made jumping puzzles, fall out shelters, Japanese summer festivals (especially during covid), insane asylums, Batcave, drug dealer's den, bunny boy cafe, fight club, slave pit, maid cafe, secret speakeasy, etc etc. The creativity is only limited by the item limit lmao. And that just pushed people to be even more creative.

[@alexrowe9638]

You guys are so easy going, charismatic and explain thing in a relaxed manner that it was a pleasure watching this. It would had been even better if you mentioned for genpop on is it possible to sandbox some items as in have usable storage chests, crafting stations, food and drink or alchemist processing etc

[@Renaxula]

My fc has a member that loves doing the decorating. So we just gave the reigns to her and she'll occasionally surprise us with new decorations/styles.

[@michaeltoy1813]

The most prominent glitch (without use of mods) is place - > change floor - > rotate a bit for safety - > leave area - > return. Boom. Mods have helped with the, especially lofts inside houses. I've been spending too much time performing a glitch to get stuff on my lofts it's absurd.

[@katarh]

Before the lottery, several years ago, there was a chocobo house in front of my mid size in Goblet. A few days after they released Shirogane, the house was suddenly gone - I assume they snagged an upgrade in another ward. I paid a fairly new FC member the 4 million gil to get that plot under the condition that under no circumstances whatsoever could they put a chocobo house there. To this day they've kept it 100% chocobo free. On the other hand, some other FC members have gleefully turned their house into a Paissa house. Just... ugh. Our FC has one of the original mansions in the original wards, back when we all had to scrimp together to save up the forty million. We made the decision to never leave because it was our first real team building exercise. As for advice, the HGXIV folks are amazing - Ashen Bride, Synt, and a few other decorators have well earned reputations as glitch masters. The common pitfall is that many items are sold from in game venders, so check before you buy off the market board!

[@OzixiThrill]

"The common pitfall is that many items are sold from in game venders, so check before you buy off the market board!" This is a case with quite a LOT of things, actually. People overcharging stuff you can get from the vendors.

[@uncleclaps44]

Housing comes with a store room that is equal to the amount of items you can place, this is great for storing and placing those event items for easter, halloween, summer and christmas. Almost all ingame seasonal events will have a decoration or food item you can place in the house, for example the jackolantern with the candy was from a previous halloween even aswell as a witch statue with a flying bat, they can be bought on the mog shop now i think? During events, the wards will have small event touches where christmas will have it snowing, summer (moonfire) and annaversary will have fireworks of a night time and lastly the marketboards will have decorations on and around them like paw prints and pumpkins for halloween.

[@miridarkstar4769]

wishing you the best luck in future attempts to get a house. I LOVE my house, and yeah, the FCs tend to be a bit more "communal" in nature.

[@juraihoshi]

But wait!.... There's more! Haunted Houses during Halloween, competitive neighbors with Christmas decorations during Christmas season. The community frequently does raves or events at their homes and its common to see players advertising these community generated events in PF. They even did their own in-game fanfest (real one was canceled due to covid). I had never seen anything like it before. It was like a huge coordinated block party in the housing area. There were multiple Discords you could join with their own events and DJs playing music. Players hosted community events and houses had been converted to RP sites like night clubs and restaurants, cafes, etc. Glam contests were held. Choreographed dancers/performers, bard orchestras playing. It was wild. Everyone dressed in their best glams, finery and costumes, people cosplaying popular characters (like you saw the Green Power Ranger in your video) just roaming about like you might see at a real fanfest or comic-con event. I think at one of the big raves that Preach attrended and streamed, there were some people RPing being drunk and passed out (/playdead). There was a pair of catgirls that looked like one was puking into a fountain and the other catgirl looked like she was holding her hair trying to comfort her (I died 🤣) It's really amazing what the RP community has come up with.

[@nyminenemine]

I am actually in charge of holiday theming the front lawn of my FC including seasons! There's no real limit in my FC. Just basically make it look good and always leave a spot for people to hang out. And hoo boy there are PLENTY of holiday furnishings, indoor and out. The summer festival is coming up soon so I'll be putting the kiddie pool and picnic set back out soon n.n

[@eorzeanECM]

Our FC house is OCEAN FRONT at the MIST we've had it since ARR. We have our own FC decorator that changes the decor every once in a while. We have beach parties and play on the beach. During Moonfire Faire, we go on our roof and watch the fireworks. Every Christmas we decorate the front room and have an FC photo op.

[@ggflowen]

I never expected to get into the housing but after we got the FC house I’ve been going crazy with my room and having a blast.

[@Quetzelkoa]

Holy shit, how did I never realize you guys had an FFXIV channel? Used to love Into the Nexus and your other shows. I'm stoked!

[@Amovetv]

Hey! Happy you found us. Welcome back!

[@Skye_Blue]

Hearing you two talk about something like housing is actaully really fun. Like, it's one of the more mundane features of the game, yet it offers so much to players (even if the UI for decorating is somewhat frustrating). I look forward to island sanctuaries coming out and hearing people have similar conversations (assuming the features are similar, of course). I've actually been debating getting a house. I have an apartment in the Lavender Beds, but I do like Shirogane. It's just that Shirogane seems to be the most popular area, so I doubt I'd actually find a place for myself. Plus, if I did get one, I don't even know if I'd ever get around to decorating it. Maybe visiting my FC house is all the housing I really need. I dunno, maybe I'll change my mind. Although, I did have fun turning my apartment into basically a disaster area. I was going for that "I'm never home, so just toss stuff whereever, change clothes, and head out again," kind of look. It's a beautiful mess.

[@Momoryuto]

Just got my own fc house! I’m doing it definitely for the workshop and gardening, but interior decoration is definitely daunting.

[@vgpowerlord]

As you can imagine, the different housing wards also have different demand. As far as I can tell, from most to least popular it's Shirogane, Mist, Lavender Beds, Empyrean, Goblet.

[@dafire9634]

I would have expected empyrean to be next to shirogane tbh

[@udiar]

Oh no I noticed the cursor on Kyle's face now I can't unsee it! I'm just glad it wasn't a dead pixel like I thought it was at first.

[@tjl9458]

I thought it was something on my screen so I ended up cleaning my screen and then I noticed when they did the split screen, it showed up in the same place on Kyle's half and I calmed down.

[@Arngrinn]

As a day ffxiv player and housing owner (fc and personal) housing is good but i recommend it for if you plan on keeping up on it because you will lose it over time, idk if they have suspended that function or not due to things. Anyways for my fc, we made it as a family (parents, brothers rl family) and after my dad passed i made him into a retainer and got him set up outside the fc house in front of a brick bbq so hes always there with us. So housing is definitely a thing that can be quite fun and awesome to get/do and so much you can do with them.

[@Xenogsaga]

As a proud goblet owner I support the goblet gushing. The most I do for ingame holidays in Starlight. I have a few items from way back when they first put in the housing wards with the Starlight trees you could put out in the yard that required players to go get letters from the tress. This was also a daily repeatable so players were running around the housing wards getting different trees and players could put out different color tress for the quest. I'll always pull stuff into storage or use the last few slots I have for the starlight decoration.

[@michaeltoy1813]

My personal gripe with the housing system is not being able to place stuff naturally on lofts. From what I researched and practiced, you gotta do a glitch and it's time consuming AF. There's a mod to fix this but honestly it should be in the game already.

[@Dewkeeper]

Yeah they should really consider just making every item function like a tabletop object and be done with it.

[@Midare13]

I'm currently very salty over this topic... my brother got a house in Shirogane and I'm stuck with a tiny apartment room in Empyreum... and he had the gall to tell me "that's good enough for a lala" while laughing. I like what I did with the room but I wanted my own haunted house... so I feel you guys.

[@nspaulding07]

Keep trying, I'm sure you can eventually get something close to your ideal if you keep at it!

[@xPsiPsiStar]

My FC's Estate is in lavender beds, and so is a FC mate's house, let me tell ya, I didn't care for player housing until last year's The Rising event where every certain amount of time, there will be a fireworks show, just hanging out on the rooftop of that FC mate's place talking shop and watching the fireworks made me fall in love with the lavender beds, if I ever get a house, it will be somewhere in there, I want to just lounge on my rooftop while watching a fireworks show, just peak comfy.

[@cindaflame]

I have the best plot in the whole game. It's in the goblet and it's a small.. BUT!!! It's right in front of the Market Board and the shard. It hangs out away from everything. There aren't any mansions looming over it. And it backs up against the canyon so I see the fireworks when they go off from my "back yard". HOWEVER!!! I want to get a medium in the Lavender Beds. I didn't get one in the latest lottery and it's not looking good for the next round. All the personals are sold. So If they do make the new North America Data Centers, I might have to move. Might the only way to get one.. . Also, speaking of customization. . . I have an Eastern style tea house. With low tables, and cushions to sit on. The tables have green tea tea sets on them and snacks. The yard has those red benches with umbrellas to sit on and have dango. :D

[@Xylus.]

My FC just moved from lavender beds to shirogane awhile ago. I love it so much visually, but also saved me so much gil being able to teleport cheaply all the way across the world as I've worked my way through Stormblood. definately the goat

[@michaeltoy1813]

Good luck on getting your dream plot you 2. You're gonna need it. GG!

[@karelposedi]

Honest to God I can't stand reality show, especially those around housing/apartments but HOUSE HUNTING EORZEA I would give a try

[@bakashinobi42]

Final fantasy does a good job of showing how RP is interesting to non-RP players like myself because even just playing the MSQ, it's easy to get to point of 'wait, I don't want to look like *that* in the upcoming scene! Hmmm, what do I have to look how I want?" Add in that the story stops at points where 'OK, threat is dealt with for now, go take a break", it makes sense to not always be a godslaying warrior and just be relaxed. Housing helps fill out that 'off the clock" feeling in FFXIV and want to have a place that's not about fighting but instead just relaxing and hanging out. In a way, FFXIV started out as drawing from the WoW template but has also moved into some Second Life territory as well. You feel free to have your character stop being battle ready and kinda have a life outside of fighting. It's something that's not present in WoW (not as a WoW bad thing, wow just lives for the world of conflict while FFXIV does not) which makes RP feel like a very dedicated and involved thing because it's not a 'natural' part of the experience because in WoW, you're always going to the next fight and never standing around in a cutscene talking. Coming from WoW, it's an adjustment, but it's a nice one that fits with a more story focused world; having a way to release tension so when the tense moments happen, they stand out more.

[@anangrydruid6990]

I've lost 3 houses to inactivity. And now there's almost no chance I'll get one. Regret losing the Shirogane small I had. It was right on the beach day 1 beat three people to get it by maybe a second.

[@windsgrace688]

This kind of made me want to rennovate my mansion in the Goblet that I haven't touched for probably 6 years lol.

[@swedishgamergirl6138]

Just got my plot yesterday in The Mist, the plot doesent have a close neighbor so im so so superhappy! Gonna spend my evenings and do a lot of decorations 😁 This was my goal after finish EW!

[@SeaborneWhale]

The bar thing is absolutely sending me because of how true it is! Even in my FC’s very ‘Official Proper Guild’ FC House, we *had* to put in a basement bar 😅

[@treebush]

I hope you guys see this but if you love Shirogane, You gotta search up the blockparty and Japanese Festivals stalls Players used to be able to do by glitching furniture into the streets and its absolutely AMAZING!! People had food stalls, and such, people dressed up and you'd see people taking photos like irl and fire work shows. Its absolutely amazing what was happening unfortunately its been patched so people cant do these things anymore, but its worth knowing about how lively the Wards got.

[@OldManWhit]

The club/cafe scene is pretty big. Most clubs have live djs on twitch, and cafes can have events - went to one a couple weeks ago that had a 'slam poetry' contest. Went to a theater once when the 'live in game band' Rosa played. Fun stuff.

[@octogames6823]

I miss the old housing system. I have been trying to get a large plot for 6 months now with no luck. I seen people still use multiple accounts to bid on one property. Last large plot I bid on had over 200 entries.

[@ViviCaligo]

Managed to win the last plot on my server this morning and now I'm so happy planning out the decoration, I am feeling peak adult.

[@UnashamedlyHentai]

We have a mansion in Lavender beds and I love it there. Lavender beds is very pretty.

[@FishSkeleton-]

Fellow Florida man here, can confirm along with Garrett, Mists best neighborhood. I adore running around my plot on my gator mount.

[@andrewnorcross9486]

I've not got a house, and I'm not likely going to get one on my server (Ragnarok), but I do have an appartment. I've decorated it in the style I've called 'What my retainers brought home for me' 😁. But they were kind enough to get me a comfy chair and an orchestrion so I can listen to some music. The only thing I miss is the full gardening experience. I can grow things, but not cross bred them

[@sonicroze]

Some of the items for a tiki bar will not be hard to come by. I can think of several items that could work and I'm pretty sure a bamboo thing exists that is also seating.

[@aesthriatea5023]

Turned our basement into a nightclub/bar and our main floor into a cafe for the FC - 10/10 would remake again, housing is addicting

[@GrandAdmThrawn]

I've won plot 20 in the Goblet (the one with the waterfall on its left) today and I could not have been happier. I love everything about Ul'dah so it was a no brainer for me. Shirogane is my 2nd favourite but...there is no waterfall there xD

[@Lancefh_ENV]

that's why my house is just my island sanctuary

[@XenosFFBE]

Good luck guys!!!

[@justinm4497]

The intro got you a sub. 😂

[@Chopin124]

I tried to get a house in Kugane but it’s so popular… tried in Lavender Beds too on another world but lost both 😭 Lottery isn’t perfect, but it allows me who can’t be online for more than two hours a day at best to try for one albeit with a remote chance…

[@aeravan]

26:45 I have the free company chest behind a bookshelf (and some gold coins on floor for extra immersion). and I can access it by glitching into it (running towards the bookshelf).

[@Tioko]

I’ve wanted a house in Ishgard ever since I played HW, and eagerly awaited the opening. And now my dream came true :) Now I have my own house with a great view and beautiful gardens on the outside and inside :) Come visit Cozy Gardens Estate on Chaos, Cerberus, Ward 23, Plot 57 :)

[@winterbear6290]

Ishgard is by far my favorite housing area. Winter all the time? sign me up. That being said, i thought this was a video on getting housing 😅

[@inkblotCrisis]

I'm not ready to go into the rabbit hole that is player housing just yet. Can't wait for the islands though.

[@Ryotsu2112]

I used to have a small house during the Stormblood expansion. I loaded it up with the coolest furniture and stuff that I could afford at the time. I tend to take multi month breaks from any MMO I play, so I ended up losing the house because you don’t get to keep it forever if your subscription lapses more than 2 months (I think, feel free to correct me). They sent an email warning me that I would lose the house if I didn’t resub, which is fair, but I didn’t feel like paying the money at the time because I didn’t have anything I wanted to do in game for a while. I knowingly gave up the house, but I didn’t realize that they would only hold my furnishings for a month and then delete them. I thought I would be able to retrieve all my stuff when I finally logged back in months later, but I was unpleasantly surprised to find all that money I spent flushed down the toilet (which was my fault for not paying attention to the rules). That’s my only real gripe with housing (aside from the scarcity), is that you can lose it all (and the money you spent on the lot and furnishings, etc) if you take a multi month break.

[@tjl9458]

It's a 45 day timer, not 2 months. If you lose your house due to the timer, all your stuff goes to a Salvager and a second timer starts. I don't remember what the timer is after that, if it's 30 or 90 days but once that timer is up, you lose your stuff.

[@vermillionwing]

It's not if you don't subscribe, but if you don't "enter" the house itself. You can lose your house even if you subscribe and play but forget to enter your house for that time period.

[@Ryotsu2112]

@@vermillionwing @TJL That's right, thanks for the info. I had forgotten. I also remember that even if you give house access to someone else, they can't enter for you to get around the timer.

[@leshyaedawnfire]

I want the option to have instanced housing so I don't have to buy a lot. Can't wait for that Private Island thing!

[@corbenikgaming7688]

I have never seen that many people running around the housing district before you may see one person running around the housing district at the same time you are, but that is extremely rare. I have never seen where there are a ton of people running around and looking at houses and stuff never seen it. Lol

[@sumiregusa]

The lack of LB coverage made it clear you guys don't like it but I respect different strokes! Nice video

[@Howlflame]

As someone who has moved from Washington State to Nevada, I don't like the Goblet because it reminds me too much of the desert I currently live in.

[@AnimatronicBadgerlord]

So when can I catch HHE on HGC? In seriousness though. My first Housing in an MMO was EQ2 and I had fun with it. My friend and I saved up and bought a mansion and filled it out. It was good times. I don't have a house in FFXIV, my FC Does but it's small. I can't say I've put any thought into it at all, but the fact that there is a lottery for a house completely turns me away from the entire system full stop. I don't want to deal with that shit. I've played an upsetting amount of House Flipper. I say this with no joke, playing House flipper... made me want to buy a house in real life. So I did. I want to joke about it but the game got me to buy a house. So I would honestly LIKE to have a house in FFXIV... but again the lottery... eh, and I'm also poor.

[@Matshark]

If you want a house, but no money and lottery system thing, give apartments a try. It is basically one small room for around 500k. (idk if those sold out too or not, so goodluck)

[@AnimatronicBadgerlord]

@@Matshark I've thought about that, and I may do that to see how things feel. I do want one with an Exterior though hehe. I appreciate the advice though friend!

[@SeyrenaKatsuragi]

I was lucky to get a beach front small in mist 2 years ago still havnt gotten into gliching but I just like to decorate as a livable home^^

[@Kasaaz]

I think a lot of people don't like the Goblet because it can be a pain in the ass to navigate when you want to get to the Market Board and such. I don't mind it because we're literally right next to one.

[@Kasaaz]

One of the nice things about housing is that there's almost always something new to mess with every single patch. Most other styles of play in FFXIV you tend to get stuff then the next patch is for someone else. With housing items, they just sort of trickle out a few with every patch or major event.

[@Keldiur]

Its probably because most of the major art assets are done probably at the launch of the expansion. FF is probably the king of repurposing their assets for the x.1 to x.5 patches. Whatever is new was probably done months in advance. So instead of firing their art department for a year, they just make seasonal/housing knick knacks and store items (unfortunately).

[@omgnerv]

FFXIV players are so nice. Coming from WoW I still feel awkward chatting and interacting with others. I'm still on the free trail so I can't whisper. I feel so bad when someone whispers me and I can't respond. I really want to be polite too. Yesterday someone whispert me if I had enough rep to buy something at a vendor. I tried to at least answer in open chat. I guess the person understood that I am new and on free trail. they responded sooooo nice. I just wish I could have talked more. When you are limitted to open chat it's impossible (at least for me) to have a conversation with someone in a big city because everyone is chatting and I can't follow my conversation... it's also difficult when the other person want's to do something and is running around. I'm just not able to follow whom I am talking to. It's all so overwhelming :-( I know I could easily solve this by buying the full game version but i'am not ready to commit yet. I'm still too burned from WoW.

[@nighttimestalker]

My free company's housing is in Empryeum, (pretty sure i spelt it wrong). Theres an ERP hiuse down from us lol

[@subculturenz]

How dare you! Gridania has the best Swimming area.

[@ojosama]

A lot of unique item placement is done through glitching which I hear is a very lengthy process to do. I also here they maybe an add on that makes it much easier to do. But add-ons are of course TOS breaking so be cautious.

[@mishizoko]

It's not tiki but I did build a kind of sunken pirate ship club in the basement of my FC. Though I am on Midgardsormr.

[@colesmith3122]

I tried to get a plot in shirogane this past week (didn't get it) but the plot had 106 people trying to get it. I feel we need more private housing wards as fc wards are barren on my server

[@dafire9634]

Be gigabrain and make a 1 person FC

[@gordonjackson4040]

Yea housing is ridiculous. I got lucky and won a medium house in Ishguard but I really don’t know what I want to do with the interior… at all. It’s a little overwhelming having so much customization. I did get the garden going though 👌