Quote Originally Posted by Skivvy View Post
Instanced housing can be so much more than just the inside of a house (like our apartments). You can have a large property all to yourself, including an outdoor area as well as the house itself. Wildstar (RIP) even had the option to have an island instance with several of your friends. Everyone still got their own personal section of land to design, but your friend's plots were just a short distance away for visiting. I would absolutely take that in a heartbeat over our ward system.
With the way the game servers are essentially structured. The instanced housing you mention would be more like private wards which would cause and exponential increase in load on the servers before increasing the number of homes. Basically it would amount to a whole lot more of those messages of zone transfer or entry failed due to congestion try again later until a mountain of new hardware was added to the data center. Additionally they'd have to rework the programming on furnishings as I don't recall wildstar housing having a transition between indoor and outdoor. You just walked in and out similar to NPC buildings in the city/states and outpost like areas.