Another housing delay, imagine that.

[Jojoya]

What is your point?

I think the point is the current housing system is a failure because it can't serve the player base fairly and consistently.

Some players own multiple houses while other players can't get a single house. Some players lose their house to demolition and other players don't depending on when major disasters are happening in the real world.

Other major (and not so major) MMOs don't have these issues with their housing systems. Why does FFXIV?

It's not that they can't do it, it's that it would come at a huge cost that is not recoverable. Like, they can spend the resources developing a significant chunk of expansion pack, sell that, and recoup losses. Housing districts are pure profit loss.

Should they be looking into more budget versions like instanced housing? Yes. At the cost of an expansion? No.

Why do you assume updating the housing system would require the loss of an entire expansion?