Quote Originally Posted by Garten View Post
Won't the instanced houses weigth the same on the servers?
Loading an instanced house is totally different to loading an entire subdivision. Logically speaking the instanced housing -should- be less of a strain on servers than wards, but to introduce instanced housing the devs would have to work on it which means time and money. The ward system is already there. It might actually be more cost effective for them to add wards because while they probably take up more server space, the system already exists. It does need adjustment but that could still mean it's much less work than creating an entirely new housing system.

What I think is going on at SE is that the uproar from Shirogane made them realise that housing is much more desirable to players than they thought, and that the current prerequisites to purchase a plot are too easily abused. Yoshi P already confirmed that new wards in 4.2 will not be a simple case of just adding more wards, but that changes to the system will be made. He didn't go into specifics. For all we know instanced housing is already being addressed but a complex feature like that won't be announced until SE can at least estimate a release date. Furthermore maybe it was not considered a priority until the uproar over Shirogane occurred.

In short, we just have to wait and see just how much SE truly understand the players' interest in housing.