Elitist Housing Must Go. Every Single Player Should Have A House.

[Ramiren]

This… because all the other arguing and animosity goes away if everyone just has access to an instanced house. Heck let the hobbyists have multiples if they want to, because with instanced, no one else has to go without so you can indulge your passion!

To be clear though, when I say instanced, what I want from that is the inside and outside of a plot, that works the same way it does now, only instanced, with the ability to choose the ward theme/plot appearance/size. I don’t want the existing wards to go away or take anything away from anyone else. I just want everyone to be able to have the house they want.

And realistically, it’s the only way that everyone can have their dream home. There are never going to be enough mediums and larges to satisfy demand without some serious redesigns that are most likely not going to happen. There’s what? 6 larges a ward, including the subdivision? Instanced housing allows for the possibility of upgrading, whether they make it through just paying the extra gil or some kind of remodeling permit. Or the ability to go back and forth between sizes and decide what you like best.

I agree with what you're saying, but I think we need to bear in mind that even instanced stuff uses server capacity, I'd love instanced housing, I think it'd be a massive improvement to the game, but there need to be limitations. I don't think every newbie on a free trial should get a house, and while I understand that people will want multiples for aesthetic reasons, that's going to be a really hard thing for the developers to sell to their management unless additional housing, beyond your first, is a paid feature, akin to additional retainers.