Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
When it comes down to it with the way housing was implemented the only way to get more housing districts is to add more servers which is extremely expensive. This is because they chose not to do instanced housing. At this point I don't think there really is anything they can do aside from..

A) Throwing money at the problem for more servers. Likely not even an option.

B) Rewrite the system for instanced housing districts instead. Also very unlikely due to the work involved to rewrite the system and to modify existing player experiences.

C) Beef up Inn rooms and FC house rooms to be more functional making houses truly luxury items and not necessary items.

Option C is the only one that seems realistic to me. Housing should be like glamour. Optional.
I would be OK with C as long as we then had access to stables, gardening and all the other features and, like you said, owning a house is nothing more than a luxury and something to show off. Sorry for such a rant but I'm terribly worried how this will affect future content as it is released, especially if we are getting chocobo racing in patch 2.5 (i dont actually expect it until 3.0 TBH) and I hope, for the sake of availability, the raising feature will be like it was in FFXI where it will be a stable somewhere in Heavensward/Ishgard that we talk to an NPC and then anyone can use it regardless of housing.