Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

[Syrehn]

This is still a bad fix compared to instancing. FFXI had instanced housing in its own way, Mog Houses. Not nearly as large of scale but instanced with customization so everyone could have one. WoW recently added instanced based housing with the war garrisons or whatever they are called. This if anything will keep players who had homes from coming back to the game if they decide to take a break because they will know a house the worked hard for/decorating will be reduced to 80% gil and the loss of rare furnishings.

I shared a link in my previous post to a thread where I talked about instanced housing but I'll just say it here. As it stands currently instanced housing isn't a be-all end-all solution and isn't necessarily a "fix".

Finally, I’ve seen a few posts on the forums saying housing would be better if it was instanced like inn rooms are, so I want to point out that instances aren't saved. Nothing in an inn room needs to be saved; player housing, on the other hand, necessitates personal save data for things like furniture placement and character location. So, it would really amount to adding more land anyway.

I'd be willing to bet the biggest obstacle that SE is facing with housing is tied to SAN Storage; it's expensive. As seen in the above quote even in an instanced housing model all that data needs to be saved (object placement, character location, etc.). This means that SE would still need to purchase/set-up additional hardware/storage anyway; the same way they do with wards.

Again, just to reaffirm, the above means that more land for more players regardless of ward or instance = more hardware/storage = more cost. All that data has to get processed and saved somewhere.