With regards to the possible upcoming housing relinquishments. . . . .

[Valaska]

Which is hilarious...

That's funny because I find it the exact opposite! Moghouse etc had absolutely no community in housing communities... Where as ArcheAge and ESPECIALLY DarkfallOnline had very tight knit communities!

In Darkfall Online the housing hamlets often signed Non Aggression pacts with their fellow neighbors and even protection agreements! When my clan attempted to raid a housing area smashing doors in and killing players inside etc to loot their stuff, we quickly found ourselves facing very real opposition of nearly two dozen players! We crushed them as we had nearly sixty people and were able to hit the city from 3 sides overwhelming the players and overrunning the city.

A bunch of them ran into their houses and even tried to hold the houses waiting on the other side of the doors as we siege hammered into it with their neighbors. Tell me for one second that WS has a tenth of that community and you'll be lying lol.

[Naunet]

But that's not the goal in FF14. The Devs want the Ward to be Player Root Towns and Cities where they interact with, assist, and socialize with each other just as neighbors would IRL. And Instanced housing does not meet this vision. So it will never be considered. Ever.

It can actually, because you can create a system where players can voluntarily connect houses into their own neighborhoods. The community feeling would be even stronger in that case, because this is a community everyone willingly created. More connection = more participation.

That's funny because I find it the exact opposite! Moghouse etc had absolutely no community in housing communities... Where as ArcheAge and ESPECIALLY DarkfallOnline had very tight knit communities!

I've never played FFXI, but I do know that the housing communities I participate(d) in for Rift and WildStar are incredible, active, creative, and engaged. WS especially, as the system really encourages visiting other people's plots.