Instanced Wards

[Jojoya]

May be better to just have the FC do a non-refundable delete/recreate, or give a small window (like a day or two) for a 100% refund if they picked a ward they don't like. If someone's going to be dropping that much gil, making changes painful will force them to think through the decision.

Or better just not to have private FC wards in the first place.

It's another "sounds good on paper but works out terrible in practice" idea.

Why not have both? If an FC wants to fight for a house, they can do so. But if they can fundraise the half billion (or more) gil it takes to buy the ward, let them.

Because then you end up with a bunch of barely occupied wards consuming server resources when those resources could be serving more players. Most FCs don't have more than a dozen or so active members while wards are designed to accommodate 30 different owners.

Do you honestly expect SE to operate 1000+ wards per world when the 96 currently operating already tax their resources?

But tbh, you're really just highlight flaws in the FC system. You're also highlight why there needs to be criteria which, when met, the FC either releases the house or just gets deleted outright (which releases the house).

Every system is going to have flaws because they're created and run by flawed human beings.

SE can't dig deep into creating restrictions on FCs because not every group of players wants their FC to be the same thing. They need to allow flexibility within a system to accommodate those differences to a reasonable degree, and there will always be those who try to exploit things for personal gain.

The flawed housing system can be fixed without even touching the flawed FC system. SE just has to accept that wards are not serving the needs of the expanding player base adequately and focus on improving the instanced system.

I'm probably in the minority on this but I would be 100% okay with losing my current medium if SE deleted the current housing system altogether to replace it with a quality housing system at the level of Wildstar, RIFT, or ESO housing, one that serves every player with an interest in housing equally regardless of local world population instead of one that only serves the lucky on less populated worlds.

Like it or not, there's a very good chance that every NA and EU world will be Balmung by the time Endwalker releases. All those high profile streamers abandoning WoW and coming here are showing players from other games that FFXIV isn't such a terrible "weeb" game after all. SE would be foolish not to capitalize on the one feature this game has that WoW never added despite constant requests from WoW players throughout the game's history - housing.