dont feel like watching the rest of the live stream..
All just very boring introduction...
Nothing very attracting...

If they elaborate on the housing thing on video, it would be more interesting..

Should leave the gameplay experience to be discover and explore to players..

It's a way to encourage players to subscribe longer regardless they like the game or not.
Well it's a one time bet for yoshida. It's a one time big reel from them since they had big losses over the previous 1.0.
This would had excel sales and subscription rate as ever before from head start.

It leads to a client that's very similar to beta3. Though when u click on it and install, it'll show server under maintenance..

Don't put too much hopes for housing. Due to the way how yoshida structure the game, i highly doubt the housing in ff14 will truly looks like something what most players would thought off.
There's too much things not discuss or reveal to players about the housing thing.
There might be two possbility.

It might borrow ideas from playstation's home personal space. Where players would access a portal which will transport them to a personal space.
It also resembles pso2's guild hall and personal room.

Or.. yoshida decides to make it challenging by allowing house placement system like ultima online or vanguard saga of heroes. Players will have to buy house deeds and look for empty lands to plot and chart their houses on this land. This is what most players would sought after this feature.
Though in future, players would have problem when eorzea runs out of land for players to chart their deeds on.

Or players gets to acquire existing houses that has been built across Eorzea. It wouldnt be fancy. This houses looks like attap houses with straw rooftoops.

Ya i understand.. Many would thrill and got excited over housing system. I believe some hope to have something like sim city lol.. Maybe a waifu plus meidos too.

Lol.. finally after so many years , many mmo starts to take the interest in implementing housing system. Didn't know rift have such feature. It seems morrowind online too intended housing system. In those days only ultimate online. now we get to have more games surfacing with that feature.

CE alone already cost over RM300 if i werent wrong for direct conversion.
Plus shipping, it will be over what you expected.
As i know.. Western countries charge really premium price for shipping as compared to asian country.

Some silly shipping fee alone could cost 50 USD lol.. Maybe they need highly faciliated equipment to do some expatriate shipping. *Maybe they hire ironman to deliver it to malaysia*

I think everyone would like to have a physical copy over the digital one.
It's just that the shipping fee is ridiculously high for western countries. U will be in luck if u are able to locate a buyer on ebay.
If from amazon, some do not ship internationally and u will be forced to use forward shipping services. This forwarding shipping service agents charges at some alarming price rate too.
If u are getting bulk from lowyat sellers it would be more cheaper since they are bringing huge amount. But if you attempting to bring in one or two copy, i would advise getting a digital copy would be a more viable option.