Island Sanctuary

[Valfreyja]

I just dont see why a house plot couldn't be one of the unlockable plots on the island. A plot where you could install a house like in any residential area with a yard and exterior structure, and an instanced interior.

They probably will, in a future update once things are stable and the servers can handle it. A small, medium, or large plot (paying the proper amount of gil), to build a house on, with a yard and interior. At which time the current Districts will be rezoned as FC properties only.

I've thought this literally since Island Sanctuary was announced. That this is a beta testing for the instanced servers, to see how they react and what needs to be done with it. But it's just a theory, and may never become reality.

[kaynide]

They probably will, in a future update once things are stable and the servers can handle it. A small, medium, or large plot (paying the proper amount of gil), to build a house on, with a yard and interior. At which time the current Districts will be rezoned as FC properties only.

I've thought this literally since Island Sanctuary was announced. That this is a beta testing for the instanced servers, to see how they react and what needs to be done with it. But it's just a theory, and may never become reality.

If this was the intent, they would have led with this as it would be something universally good that the community would love, especially given how divisive/critical the fan base has been of Endwalker. They would not have spent the time developing entirely different-yet-somewhat-parallel systems if it was just going to be housing.

The devs need to hit a home run. Were housing reasonably possible, they would have gone for it.

All that said, the above post is certainly true: this could just be a step towards instanced housing and testing ideas with this.