Petition for Instanced housing

[LianaThorne]

Wait is this an alt account for Stormpeaks? You know what whatever, anyway, thats so generous of you..."at least a small house" she says.

But not a mid or large house oh nooo we cant have everyone buy one even though they have the funds for it.

This is the kind of thing that is stupid with your dynamic ward system. It still trying to gatekeep people in some way. The only hurdle you should have is not having the money in general to buy any size house.

And besides Ive already stated that you can keep your shitty ward system for people that somehow want that prestige neighborhood that the devs are so stubborn to keep. But having instanced purchasable houses of varying sizes alongside it will help with everyone else to access the content.

Except it won't happen beyond what we got for Island Sanctuary because, again, ward housing is what SE wants to create a need to stay subscribed to the game. If we were going to get true instanced, we would have gotten it with IS. They literally hooked it into the housing servers, I remember the first day it came out people couldn't get into their houses lmao. SE gains nothing by putting instanced in, literally nothing. If you want them to put it in, you have to find a way for them to profit off it and make the time/manpower worth it to implement. Lottery fell into that category because it still forces people to stay subbed to keep a house, providing SE with the means to profit.

Another issue I have is that we would be losing something content wise in order to implement instanced housing because it would be a much larger task compared to just hooking a lottery system into the existing ward housing, just like how we lost Bozja/Eureka equivalent this year for Criterion/Variant. Square's development is like a cup, to quote Xenos, you can't overfill that cup. If you want something new in that cup, you have to take something out of that cup to make room.

And yes, personally, unless I'm going to be refunded the full price for the two plots I have + the value of the submarines in them + the time and money spent on them in a general sense, I am firmly against instanced housing being a full replacement to the ward system. If they refund owners fairly (for me personally I wouldn't take less than 100m gil) then I would be on board with it being replaced.

I get that Storm makes some hot takes sometimes but yall really need to direct your anger to the right place. Instead of complaining about people who have invested time into the ward system and rightfully would be upset at that being taken away without any form of compensation, people should be piling on Yoshi to get a flat answer about if instanced housing is going to happen and the reasons for why they aren't implementing it. At the end of the day, even if every single ward owner was on board and ready to take on instanced, it's up to Yoshi and the dev team whether or not we get it.