Quote Originally Posted by Ayan_Calvesse View Post
No; they do not.

Despite the arguement from position of authority fallacy you tried to open with your opinion is that; while your opinion is not fact. Nor is mine.
If you played MMo's so for long then you must have seen the fate of all the other games with instanced housing.
LOTRO?2007 Gone FTP 2009 - still running
RIFT?2011 Gone FTP 2018 Dead 2019
Wildstar?2014 FTP 2015 Gone 2018
SWG? 2003 Gone 2011
DAOC? 2001 Gone FTP 2019 - Still running
EQ? 1999 Gone FTP 2012 - Still running
EO? 2014 Gone FTP 2015 - Still running

I would say the closest game to FF 14s was Dark Age of Camelot with Foundations and SWG and LOTRO - but it was nowhere near the meta of housing that FF 14's creative community has given birth to. SWG died after 6 years, DAOC is still running as FTP.

I would say EQ had the best idea; they simply had the system make more wards once a ward was full. It gave everyone a house while still leaving prime plot spaces as achieveable; but sadly this would likely today result in people trying to "force" new wards be made until they get their dream plot through some exploitative means.
Correlation is not causation. Just because those games had instanced housing does not mean that housing was the cause of their problems. You're being deliberately misleading by trying to imply that was the case.

You've also left SWTOR and ESO off your list? Why is that? Because they're still successful games with instanced housing and so would counter your attempt to blame instanced housing for game failures?

A game being F2P itself is not a problem. It's the way most companies are using predatory tactics with their cash shop pricing that is.

Also correction on RIFT - it was the one of the first MMORPGs to go free to play back in 2013, not 2018. It's also not dead (yet) though the population is a fraction of what it was before Gamigo boughtt Trion and they don't seem to do new content updates anymore. I logged onto my RIFT account in the weeks just before Endwalker's release and just to be certain logged in again just a few minutes ago (always nice to see my Dimensions still there after so many years of not being a paying customer). What closed in 2019 was their attempt at a "classic" progression server for the game. Not that I'm going to recommend RIFT as a game to play at this point. Gamigo is terrible with the way they operate their games. But it's still a good example of what can be achieved with an instanced housing system and how it avoids the problems we get with a ward system.