When can we expect Sharlayan housing

[DamianFatale]

Guess no one wants Crystarium housing anymore?

Honestly, I want it, but I would prefer more locations on the source first.

[DamianFatale]

I'd actually love Thavnair instead. It's super colourful and like nothing we have. Sharlayan is a bit too much like Mist, housing-wise, as in on the sea and white houses.
The moment I stepped foot in Thavnair, especially Radz-at-Han I said: I wanna live here. It's the first place that impressed me so much after Kugane, with how vibrant it is.

But honestly like others said: don'tlook forward to new housing areas. We just got Ishgard. Ishgard, an HW area. Ye. Maybe in a good number of years from now.
And if we get something like Loporrit-made-housing, please give us something like the cheese dungeon, very Escher-esque.

We need more housing areas though. At this point in time with the current surge in players, there will NEVER be enough to go around unless we have several housing wards. It should be a priority to make more of them for players to live in. There is no way of sugarcoating it. At the same time each ward strongly needs to have its number of available houses increased.

Every possible housing area needs to be planned and added overtime. Be it Crystarium, Sharlayan, Ratz-At-Han, or hell even unconventional areas like the Doman Enclave, Eulmore, or Idyllshire, it should happen. We are out of houses, and the population is breaking the servers. There's no way Ishgard will ever be enough. It will be filled faster than you can think of, and many will be without.

[MikkoAkure]

I just want to live there NOW, I don't care how long it takes.

I read this in Vauthry’s voice.

[Evergrey]

I read this in Vauthry’s voice.

Haha! I can clearly hear it too now.

[AnnRam]

Probably at 9.0 or 10.0, just look at Ishgard housing (promised since HW and delayed in to SB , then SHB, again at EW). SE have been extremely lazy and barely releases any content based on how much they ask for their game (15 usd monthly, more than Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Netflix,Prime etc)

[Illmaeran]

Sharlayan is the perfect opportunity for really nice looking townhouses, ala the Brownstones in Boston and other older cities. The marble architecture and prevalent "research before eating/yardwork" is just screaming for it. It'd be a great way to increase the number of available houses too since population density would go way up.

[Tlamila]

We need more housing areas though. At this point in time with the current surge in players, there will NEVER be enough to go around unless we have several housing wards. It should be a priority to make more of them for players to live in. There is no way of sugarcoating it. At the same time each ward strongly needs to have its number of available houses increased.

Every possible housing area needs to be planned and added overtime. Be it Crystarium, Sharlayan, Ratz-At-Han, or hell even unconventional areas like the Doman Enclave, Eulmore, or Idyllshire, it should happen. We are out of houses, and the population is breaking the servers. There's no way Ishgard will ever be enough. It will be filled faster than you can think of, and many will be without.

Adding housing wards (nevermind new areas, which require also design) requires a lot of new servers to be added, as housing taes its own servers. Right now they didn't even add new worlds for the new players to fit in, since they can't (won't?) addnew servers for now, and that's why we're stuck with login queues, crashes and all. I'd say if they soon get around to buying servers, it would first be worlds servers, instance servers etc, and housing servers later with lot lower priorities. And having new worlds ofc also means more housing.
Right now it's just too much people per world. But to be honest, it seems that no matter how many wards or areas they add, limited housing always was and always will be a problem, which I think needs bigger solutions than just adding more houses and it's a whole another topic.

[Reimmi]

Cool, but my thread was about Sharlayan.

I just meant its more likely to come before sharlayan

[RobynDaBank]

Sharlayan is the perfect opportunity for really nice looking townhouses, ala the Brownstones in Boston and other older cities. The marble architecture and prevalent "research before eating/yardwork" is just screaming for it. It'd be a great way to increase the number of available houses too since population density would go way up.

Something like this?