That's great... but can we have an INSTANCED Housing area

Having an instanced (budget) housing for people who don't care about being in a neighborhood would be okay. So long as they are cheaper for the worse experience.

They've made a couple of teases/hints towards player farms over the last year, I wonder if thats an instanced housing solution they're working on. Just a lonely farmhouse in a random skybox with the region of your choice in the background.

Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet...

I, personally, refuse to purchase a house plot until the inactivity auto-demolition timer is removed, and I think that's only feasible with instanced housing.

"but apartments..."

You and I both know that apartments are no replacement for a full-blown house.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

sorry for the players that see resources wasted to run more wards instead of more open world zones.

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we’ve gotten the same amount of open world zones each expansion so I’m not sure what this is referring to?

No, we cannot and that's perfectly fine.

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Originally Posted by Big_Bap

No, we cannot and that's perfectly fine.

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No, we can and it's not fine. FFXIV's housing system is objectively garbage. The whole 'neighborhood' idea doesn't need to be destroyed, but nobody actually cares about it. Plus, instanced housing would (potentially) open up more interesting locales to have a house.

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Originally Posted by SerLuke

we’ve gotten the same amount of open world zones each expansion so I’m not sure what this is referring to?

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World stability was quoted as a hurdle for more wards. As they are always up and using resources. You don't think those resources could be used else where instead of running all those wards?

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Originally Posted by Videra

No, we can and it's not fine. FFXIV's housing system is objectively garbage. The whole 'neighborhood' idea doesn't need to be destroyed, but nobody actually cares about it. Plus, instanced housing would (potentially) open up more interesting locales to have a house.

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Only if they come with a significantly higher purchase cost for the plot and require a good amount of high-end crafter materials.

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Originally Posted by Arrius

Only if they come with a significantly higher purchase cost for the plot and require a good amount of high-end crafter materials.

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You say that like it wouldn't be better than what we have now.

Instance housing could solve the housing issue. The only major and most glaring hurdle would be the hit on the instances servers. The amount of people that would be scrambling to get their home would make the Rhauban and Pipin ficasco look joke by comparison. Then there are the current players and FC's who have houses to consider the best course for those would be give them their instances so they dont have to fight the masses.