Quote Originally Posted by Solarra View Post
We do know what we're asking for. There are other games that provide instanced houses and do it well, I believe there is even one game that has neighbourhoods and manages to create new ones on demand.
So where this idea that we are asking for the impossible comes from I don't know.

This expansion every player will get a personal instance - the island sanctuary. So, if it's possible to do that for everyone, I find it hard to see why instanced houses with yards are somehow impossible.

I wish someone from SE would communicate on this issue, too. It feels like we've been shouting into the void since HW.

This is why i wish someone from SE, like perhaps Yoshi-P himself as he has proven in the past that he's very VERY good at communicating complicated situations and information about the games innerworkings and it's gears that turn things; to touch on this subject in more detail. (And as i am typing this, i am wondering if he already has.)

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About knowing what folks are asking for with instanced housing, I can only imagine players are referring to and making a mental reference to Elder Scrolls Online; which does have a nice system for housing- it's all instanced- with the ability to invite players inside said instance; each individual players has to do a quest to unlock it and then buy the home instance (basically a set-in-stone map layout with varying degrees of customization to the map itself and home) of their choice via game currency or the microtransactions-based currency.

Rift was (and i guess still is knock-on-wood) a good example of personalized instanced housing with it's Dimensions system; and works and operates very much as ESO's homestead system; with the broad exception that Dimensions has a XYZ edit mode that allows a player to- as long as they have the materials and space allotment; -to pretty much build whatever they want inside the instance.

So those are 2 pretty good examples of instanced housing that players may hearken back to when they think of instanced housing for Final Fantasy XIV.

So let's just imagine that instanced housing in the context of the above were a possibility, what then? And I mean this sincerely, what about what already exists? What do we do about the system that's already in place, and has been for many years; what do we do about the homes people have already? What happens to all that time and work?

Are folks asking for a completely new and separate housing system that doesn't interfere with the current one?