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    Quote Originally Posted by VerdeLuck View Post
    It's a thought that would take a huge amount of dev resources, but also doesn't address the failings of something like apartments. Having low player counts allowed inside instanced housing, worse menus to access it, it being cumbersome to visit and access, and in general it being much less useful for anything other than strictly personal use would make it always inferior to ward housing. If it was added and it was just straight up an instanced medium that you had to go through a half dozen menus to access like apartments, it would be in the same spot. We would still be arguing about access to ward housing because instanced would be inferior in most ways.
    As long as ward houses still exist, nobody will want to use instanced housing, unless they add some specific feature to them that ward houses don't get.
    You're making a lot of assumptions about how a better instanced housing system would work and what it would look like.

    Then I think of RIFT Dimensions and what they were like so I know instanced housing can be far better than what you described.

    Now I don't honestly expect any new instanced housing in the game to be on the same level as RIFT's but I know it can be much better that what apartments are.

    As for what is superior, that depends on what the player wants from housing. Most players are going to consider a system that guarantees them a house of their choosing better than one where they're lucky if they manage to get anything at all.

    As Stormpeaks said in their earlier post, time will tell what we end up getting. No doubt there will be some players that will only be satisfied by a ward house but I doubt that number would be as large as you think.

    Quote Originally Posted by SophiaDL View Post
    They are actually delusional, they think future house owners or already settled in house owners will give up their house/give up on the idea of a ward house because of instanced housing, well I cant wait to see that when it does happen, because I am fully certain that it wont
    If a new instanced housing system opens the doors to more location options and more customization of the house layout, I absolutely would give up my ward house for an instanced house. Again, I remember RIFT's housing very fondly. It was one of the few memorable things about the game.

    Yours is the delusion if you think that what you want is what everyone else wants.

    Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
    Same! I have an fc house, personal house, apartment and island sanctuary. The last two I have not decorated at all because they are inferior to ward houses and I don't see the point. The island is hard for people to visit and can't be used to store furniture. The apartment lacks outdoor decoration, but the whole reason I want to decorate the outside is for others to see my design and who is ever going to see an apartment? My strawberry garden and snowy cafe mansion are visible the moment you step into the ward even when I'm not online. I'd keep them and just store more furniture in an instanced house like I do with my apartment.
    What was that again? I'm online. I don't see your house. I would have to know where your house is and travel to it before I could see it.

    In other words, no different from instanced housing.

    Again, RIFT Dimensions had it solved. There was a menu with a search function for houses on the same world. Pick the Dimension you wanted to visit and press the Enter button. You were taken directly to it. The owner did not have to be online for it to be available to visit just as apartment owners don't have to be online for you to visit their apartment.

    Ultimately, things are in SE's hands. What are they willing to produce for players? We know what they are capable of doing via both the ward housing and apartments. We know what is technically possible based on what other games are doing or have done.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
    My friend the only people looking at your ward house NOW are close friends.
    Honestly, that depends on how heavily someone chooses to advertise their house. Discords and the like can reach hundreds or thousands of players who list their houses for viewing.

    Most players aren't going to get a lot of visitors because they aren't doing anything to get them. They just want a house to enjoy and don't care to use it to seek attention from others.
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    Last edited by Jojoya; 08-28-2023 at 02:55 PM.