So devs don't understand math.

[Corvus_V]

The key point here is that it will be some form of gardening. Whether or not it is exactly the same as what is done with house plots is not the focus here. It IS a form of gardening that allows those who do not have houses, to be able to participate in. I strongly suspect that the time and effort that they have spent and will spend on Island Sanctuaries, pales in comparison to what is required to overhaul the housing system. In addition, the developers apparently have already made it clear that instanced housing is off the table. Thus it actually DOES make sense that Island Sanctuaries are an attempt to satisfy at least part of the player base without having to invest the substantial resources required to massively increase the amount of housing that is available.

Instanced housing shouldn't be off the table. I own 2 apartments. That's 2 instances. They can do it. If you even have a source for them saying its "off the table" then its a lie (as in SE is not telling you the truth.)

They cut corners on virtually everything else, they can afford to develop instanced housing. Even island sanctuaries more than likely function like every other instance.
They can do it, they absolutely have the space and everything they need to do it. It would not crash the servers, any more than every FC member of every FC that owns a house filling up all the apartment slots (if there is even a limit) for the FC apartments might crash the servers. Please, stop with the concessions. Its such a pitifully crafted excuse for a company that has made less and less per expansion despite increased subscriptions.

Adding wards to meet large and medium demands? Impossible. THAT might crash the servers. Instanced housing? No. Enough of the bullshit. It is not even as if in a situation where every single player was able to own a house, they would constantly be moving in and out of them. People actually log out.

[Eraden]

Instanced housing shouldn't be off the table. I own 2 apartments. That's 2 instances. They can do it. If you even have a source for them saying its "off the table" then its a lie (as in SE is not telling you the truth.)

They cut corners on virtually everything else, they can afford to develop instanced housing. Even island sanctuaries more than likely function like every other instance.
They can do it, they absolutely have the space and everything they need to do it. It would not crash the servers, any more than every FC member of every FC that owns a house filling up all the apartment slots (if there is even a limit) for the FC apartments might crash the servers. Please, stop with the concessions. Its such a pitifully crafted excuse for a company that has made less and less per expansion despite increased subscriptions.

Adding wards to meet large and medium demands? Impossible. THAT might crash the servers. Instanced housing? No. Enough of the bullshit. It is not even as if in a situation where every single player was able to own a house, they would constantly be moving in and out of them. People actually log out.

I don't disagree with much of what you said but there have been plenty of people on these forums who have stated that Yoshida himself was against instanced housing. This appears not to be a case of they can't do it, but a case of they don't want to.

[Corvus_V]

I don't disagree with much of what you said but there have been plenty of people on these forums who have stated that Yoshida himself was against instanced housing. This appears not to be a case of they can't do it, but a case of they don't want to.

I'm glad at least that people are finally acknowledging that. The only thing left for them to do is to decide that his idea of the neighborhood isn't making the game better for a vast majority of the player-base and its generating a ton of grief amongst everyone who doesn't own a house of the size they want. It isn't helping them to not cater to their demographic; infact it's a really gross and weird hill to die on

[Hasrat]

I'm glad at least that people are finally acknowledging that. The only thing left for them to do is to decide that his idea of the neighborhood isn't making the game better for a vast majority of the player-base and its generating a ton of grief amongst everyone who doesn't own a house of the size they want. It isn't helping them to not cater to their demographic; infact it's a really gross and weird hill to die on

Where's the data for the "vast majority" claim coming from? Cuz, from the number of bids on available plots, the demand for housing might be a lot lower than claims like that would suggest.