Quote Originally Posted by Zahak View Post
Could all of our houses fit in Eorzea? Don't think so. It would have to be an instanced area..even Ultima Online had instanced portal areas for their housing didn't they? Maybe just on my shard. Never payed to play.

But I would like to be able to build and customize my house. Decorate it with the heads of the dragons and wyrms which have fallen under my blade. I am all for instanced housing. Maybe be able to have a seperate instance for every Linkshell so you can see and walk around a town full of your Linskhells houses. It would require a lot of work though.
I think Instanced housing is a pointless feature. Nobody cares what's happening in your own personal instance. So you end up just playing alone. If I wanted to play alone I would play a single player game. Even if it extends to guildmates, then you have - what? - five people who will participate in the instanced zone regularly.

It ends up being nothing more than singleplayer fare (for all intents and purposes). And I don't think I have to elaborate much more than to say it's pointless to add in-depth single-player game mechanics in an [SIZE="6"]MMO[/SIZE].

And if SE wanted to implement housing, they could do so without it compromising on the artistic integrity of the zones. Copy-paste is a very powerful tool, and with further expansions comes more space. It's not an impossible feature to implement anyway. Ultima Online, ArcheAge, Mortal Online, Darkfall are all examples of games with persistent housing. And yes, Ultima Online had persistent housing. (Instanced housing was probably implemented to combat urban sprawl on your shard, which admittedly was a problem in Ultima Online).