Major changes needed for housing

[Arillyn]

It can if they limit the population per server AND only have personal housing.

They probably won't do it since they're too nice sometimes and may not want to upset existing owners (especially FC owners), but it's certainly a possibility.

They are not going to make housing only personal. Originally the housing was supposed to be only FC and personal housing was supposed to be something else. Then SE changed that and threw personal into the wards. If anything were to change here, they'd kick out personal housing and make wards FC only. That would fit their original design, and give more people access to houses.

[linayar]

They're not going to make all housing private though or they would have already. If it was some simple/no brain thing that it's being made out to be in this thread, they would have done it already. They're also not gonna rip houses away from people for the sake of others and risk pissing off current homeowners. Honestly, the reality of what is probably gonna happen is that nothing is gonna change. We're most likely getting the exact same set up as when Shiro launched when Ishgard rolls around with the farms being the compromise for not having private instanced housing.

Agreed. I'm just saying, if a change is done, my suggestion would be more in line with what they're doing. The reason they won't is because they care too much about existing owners, and I don't fault them for that. It is what it is. Like I said before, I've already had my fun with owning a house before, and I'm ok either way now with whatever they decide to do.

They are not going to make housing only personal. Originally the housing was supposed to be only FC and personal housing was supposed to be something else. Then SE changed that and threw personal into the wards. If anything were to change here, they'd kick out personal housing and make wards FC only. That would fit their original design, and give more people access to houses.

I've also mentioned that alternative. I just think, given the current problem, that personal housing would be less prone to abuse than FC housing.