The housing system in this game NEEDS A COMPLETE GD OVERHALL. Complete stupidity....

[SerLuke]

I dont want instanced housing.

In ESO housing is dead, no one give a flying duck about it because it is instanced, it makes it almost impossible to socialise around the houses thanks to the annoying invitation system which no one cares to play with. In FFXIV housing is a lot better thanks to the shared areas with other plot owners, you could visit someone else house and look at it outside any time you want and meet the owners too. The accomplishment of owning a nice house is also a ton lot bigger, you have spent time to buy and build that house that everyone on the server could see, with instanced housing any feeling of accomplishment is completely gone and playing with housing turns out to be a waste of time.
FFXIV housing is a lot more alive than in other mmorpgs thanks to the housing design and this is a straight up fact everyone here keeps forgetting about.

I could bet 10 mln gil that most of you would forget about housing altogether once you will get your own personal large house that only you could see and enjoy.

I think this brings the point straight home, lots of people want instance housing but they don’t realize the consequences if it was done, I like housing the way it is even if I don’t have a personal medium house

[Shougun]

I think this brings the point straight home, lots of people want instance housing but they don't realize the consequences if it was done, I like housing the way it is even if I don't have a personal medium house

I don't think the point goes anywhere . . . You can see other people's houses in an instanced system too. You can feel accomplished in it too. I don't think you realize that you can have everything they said and be instanced as proven by games that have had the system. . . Also as proven (albiet personal experience and majority comment when talking to people) that FFXIV's housing isn't some wonderland of interactions. Lose my 4 interactions a year for a more powerful more plentiful and dynamic system... Oh no, how will I socially ineteract now... Lol. If you say the reason interactions are low is because I don't set them up then fine, but that is literally something you can also do with an instanced system too so a bit irrelevant for the whole interaction conversation. Even neighborhoods can be achieved in an instanced system if one tried hard enough, like Wildstar's community (a super plot of 5 giant plots and 5 huge houses)

Nothing stops people from interacting in an instanced system, upgrading, or feeling accomplished, furthermore the ward system doesn't have to die either (for those who want to see a neighbor's house from their yard).