Why neighbourhoods ?

[Heh]

Did you just assume that there is no one socializing in a ward among all data centers, and all servers, therefore it's fine to delete it, and turn housing to solo private instance?
Why are you so eager in dismissing the current system that we have, and switching to other completely new untested system that might upset more people? Just because it's working in Elder Scrolls Online doesnt mean it would work in FFXIV.

Instead of completely destroying it and built something new. Why not just improve what we already have. make the wards grows as the server population needs. It's 2022, there is no way their servers unable to handle more than 24.

Because excluding 95% of the playerbase from this system is apparently justifiable because some players like to pretend they're in a neighborhood.


Yes people actually defend this system and this is their argument.



We've been "improving" what we have since 2.0.

It hasn't worked.

They haven't been improving, lottery isn't improvement, it's just workaround. What I'd call improvement is increasing the wards size to 64 for every housing zone at the very least. It's a permanent solutions if the wards can grow as needed once the existing wards got filled up.

I don't understand why people think it's a rocket science when scalable, on-demand, cloud computing exists.