Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
You keep bring up this dying mmorpg in which will never have a chance to get test but playerbase size of WoW and FF14.
Instanced nevertheless requires a dedicate server to host.
If currently we have the technology to handle such gigantic amount of player base, Blizzard would have done it already at Warlord of Dreanor instead of of laughable Garrison.
Remember, Blizzard is still the king at the time of that expansion release in which also has far more advance server technology than SE
Ion addressed why WoW doesn't have housing in an interview he did with Preach before Preach got fed up and quit WoW. It doesn't have housing because they would have to use a hook system, which MMO players have long since made clear they detest.

That actually helped make more sense out of why Garrisons were such a disappointment - they were a hook system. Small buildings could only be placed on the small hooks, medium on medium hooks, large on large hooks, achievement monuments on monument hooks. Artifact trophies could only be placed on their specifically assigned hooks instead of displayed in an order meaningful to the player.

But that was WoW. We know the systems are different here. We know that instanced housing is possible because we're already using it. We know that having an outdoor area within a personal instance is possible because that's what Island Sanctuary is - a big outdoor area. SE has the tools to make a better housing system at hand - they just need to put in the effort to combine them so that no player that wants a house is left behind.