Quote Originally Posted by Barboron View Post
No, no we can't assume that. That's just ridiculous. Therefore I could say, considering there are still empty houses left, everyone who really wants a house, has one and thus, we need no more instances.
Maybe on your server there are lots open, but don't assume that all servers have lots open. In famfrit, only the newest wards have medium/large houses open last I checked and that is only because people are waiting for the prices to go down. Once it goes down enough, people already have the gil prepared to buy them.

And I did do a mini survey of a few people I knew (FC, Friends list, link shells mainly and a few people I did a lot of duty runs with (not necessarily the same server)). Again, not conclusive evidence, but my point is more of that there are people that want housing but either can't get them because the houses already got bought up, or they are waiting for the prices to go down, but it is a game of: What is the price that I'll pay, what is the price that others will pay?

Also, I see no reason why their servers can't handle housing. There are other games with larger non-instanced housing areas that are fine and they aren't even from a big company like SE. So the only reason that their servers wouldn't be able to handle housing would be if they didn't set up their servers to be expandable. In which case, I'd have to say that is poor design.