No matter what, these houses and wards and whatever else will be empty and barely used or populated, there is no point hanging out there, when everyone hang out in the big cities.

Just saying, having a house is is more a status symbol than anything in this game, at least for some, and no I am not counting all those decorators and people here who actually spend time in the houses.

It is about time that SE does a couple of things, prevent 1 person FC's being an option, can only be FC leader of one FC per Server, remove grandfathering and adding in intensive systems and the likes, that make it less favourable to have a house, just for a status symbol or the likes, add tax onto housing or something or plot tax.

If an ancient game like Star Wars Galaxies, can have housing, where you put it where you want and even player cities... and 100% free way of where you want to put a piece of furniture.. and yes even rotate and bank angles... then why can a game like FFXIV not have it that was released around 10 years after.

IT is not the hardware that is behind in SE's favour that is and will be the least of the trouble, but having ended working on a borked engine... they yet have tamed pretty damn well and now fighting with limitations that they need to plug and find solutions for.