The Case for Instanced Housing

[EaMett]

Considering they already have almost, if not all the libraries they need, there isn't that much work left. After all, they found time to make flying available in ARR maps (considering all the invisible walls on maps, flying appears to me like a bigger work).

What is currently mostly missing is :
Some kind of central aetheryte
Some houses and islands designs

but considering all the work already done, it is mainly to adapt the existing. Even considering databases, to modify the apartments mapping is far to be a nightmare.


Honestly, farming for a content, that limited, considering the current State-of-Art, you can lose, doesn't worth the time.

Everything is easy when you're on the sidelines. The fact of the matter is that this isn't an asset issue to start with so talking about how they have most of the assets already is kinda pointless. I'm also a little amused that your go to "they have the time" example was them taking some 5 years to remove invisible walls from a handful of maps, lol. And if it isn't worth the time then why is it full? Evidently it's worth the time for some people.
I wasn't saying instanced housing was bad, I was just saying that the current system isn't bad either. It's just their flavor of it and, for all intents and purposes, seems to be working as intended.

Individual player housing as originally planned during ARR but got scrapped for whatever reason (probably a financial one). Housing isn't limited by design but by technical issues. The housing we currently have in the game was originally housing meant for free companies, and was supposed to be different from the individual player housing.

The original housing was released in 2.1 and then opened to individuals in 2.38. That doesn't leave much room for design and implementation. Odds are they never left the drawing board with it, or scrapped it from the start because they weren't pleased with the design.
And the devs have gone on record saying that they made housing difficult to get by design. The whole "sense of accomplishment" and "showing off your homes" memes originated from these comments, way back when.