Quote Originally Posted by Stormpeaks View Post
Balmung is a good example of that, I remember people paying their friends or contacting random people and paying them millions for them to vacate their apartment just so they could get one.

Apartments are not instanced housing.
People don't understand what 'Instanced Housing' would be.
No matter what form it comes it, it will be limited by server capacity in some form. Not everyone can be in a private instance at the same time, as evident by the fact that thise in their Islands were preventing others from e tering theirs or their homes when it was first released. There will have to be a limit in some way.

Each world now has 27,000 apartments, which dwarfs the active playerbase of most servers excluding Crystal.
Everyone can get an apartment with no competition. That's Functionally as close to instanced housing as it's going to get.

If you want true instanced housing, you're talking timed sessions, afk lockout and limited database queries (like excluding retainers or glamour plates).