Quote Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa View Post
But you never talk to your neighbors. Literally nobody does. You just sit in your own house and interact with your friends. Wards are completely antisocial already because everyone just sticks to interacting with their own cliques and nobody actually socializes as a community. There's no reason we can't have wards and solo instanced housing at the same time.
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. It's a permanent solutions and everyone can get houses if the wards can grow as needed once the existing wards got filled up. This has been done before on other MMO, I don't understand why people think it's a rocket science when scalable, on-demand, cloud computing exists.