Quote Originally Posted by Syrehn View Post
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That's not quite accurate. The amount of data storage necessary for saving instanced housing would be drastically less than for creating an entire zone which simply works as a hub to access housing that is already instanced anyway.

Its the archaic and, frankly, rather odd approach SE has taken to housing that has turned it into such a debacle when perfectly working models exist both in other MMOs (Rift, WoW), as well as their own game (FFXI).