Quote Originally Posted by saxman09 View Post
Again if it's an issue why hasn't it been fixed? Timers are what is killing the ability to buy and literally killing players with sleep deprivation. If I was in charge timers would have been gone as soon as I hear any player needed to camp up for 2 days for something when the fix would be to put the damn timer on the placard.
Because they need time to develop new systems for housing that will take care of the issues that players have been discussing, perhaps? They can't just add things on a whim. They have to take into account effects on the existing game and increased server loads.

The game isn't killing anyone with sleep deprivation. Stop being overly dramatic. It doesn't help the situation.

They hinted at the NA FanFest that some new housing is coming this expansion and it's tied to the Ishgard Reconstruction. Considering that's going to come with 5.1, we can hope that housing will be one of the topics in their 5.1 live letter.

We know they've been working on a way to have what's happening in common areas be visible from instanced areas. YoshiP went into a lot of detail about the process during the EU FanFest Q&A when he answered the question about why mansion balcony doors don't work.

At the end of one of their streams in June they acknowledged player concerns with housing availability and said they were going to be internally discussing what to do about it after Shadowbringers had launched.

Players have noted how much bigger the Crystarium "inn rooms" are and that they reflect weather and time of day in the skybox.

Put these things together and there's hope they've been trying to develop an instanced system that will let every player have a house, or at least a much larger apartment, while keeping the feeling of the ward neighborhoods and the ability to garden. Or maybe they're just going to add Ishgard wards and hope that takes care of things for a while.

Like other game developers, they've learned not to say too much to players because too many have a tendency to take "we hope to" statements as "set in stone promise".