Day 1 of nonsense: Why is this allowed?

[LianaThorne]

Most of us aren't asking SE to remove ward housing.

We're asking for them to improve the instanced housing the game already has.

Personally I'd like to see both exist but I don't see a point to it ultimately after thinking about this for a while.

Square makes money off forced subscriptions to keep housing. Implement instanced where you don't have to have a subscription to keep it and I have two questions:

1. Who is actually going to stay in neighborhoods at that point if a free option exists? (Since I assume they would carry over everything involved in FCs and private housing unless it's specifically private housing only)
2. How is Square going to make up for the loss with the forced subscriptions no longer being a thing? A more invasive cash shop perhaps? Higher subscription prices in general?

I mean, personally, if I had a house I couldn't lose I'd just be subbing at expansion launches for a month or two and probably closer to the .4-.5 patches to catch up.

[Kirutsuki]

Personally I'd like to see both exist but I don't see a point to it ultimately after thinking about this for a while.

Square makes money off forced subscriptions to keep housing. Implement instanced where you don't have to have a subscription to keep it and I have two questions:

1. Who is actually going to stay in neighborhoods at that point if a free option exists? (Since I assume they would carry over everything involved in FCs and private housing unless it's specifically private housing only)
2. How is Square going to make up for the loss with the forced subscriptions no longer being a thing? A more invasive cash shop perhaps? Higher subscription prices in general?

I mean, personally, if I had a house I couldn't lose I'd just be subbing at expansion launches for a month or two and probably closer to the .4-.5 patches to catch up.

You bring up a good point actually. Instanced housing could literally make all wards empty in an instant since there is no way of losing them.
And it would make these kinds of FC wards the norm for the entire district and only a select few people are willing enough to make that happen so the district system would just become un-used, even more so than it is today.

So I really hope they just fix issues with the current system, stop allowing these shady ownership exhanges and give more people options to buy M or L houses.
As it stands most available houses in Spriggan are S sizes. So there's clear demand for M or larger and at best for those we get 1L house a week and a few M houses for bidding per week.