We need private instance housing

[Alleo]

You make it sound so easy but I bet half of you don't even work with programming and engineering. It isn't that easy. Stop complaining.

(IT major)

Yes its true that I have no idea about programming and engineering and don´t know if its easy or not. Maybe as a IT major you can tell us why its so hard to do that instead of just telling us to not complaining.
Its just strange how other games have no problems with it. In RIFT you can have your own dimensions and in Final Fantasy 11 you can have your own instanced mog house. So why did they manage to do instanced houses in own of their own older game and yet it should be so hard to implement here..

[Gwyenne]

In simplicity, its an overload on their traffic. If you think that the boots, the lag, and the spikes are bad. The more instances you add onto a server thats already struggling, the worse its going to get. Yes, other games have done it but its not like every single game available uses the same network set up.

And before someone says "Change the set up", that means they have to shut down the network for days. Or even weeks.

People just aren't happy. If they would of fixed the housing problem before implementing Alex, people would whine that Alex isn't ready.

Unless you plan on sitting down in their seats and doing it yourself, whining over your keyboard isn't going to make it go by any faster. I think the server stability is more important than a small group making a forum about it. And trust me, I've been waiting for a house too.

[Naunet]

And before someone says "Change the set up", that means they have to shut down the network for days. Or even weeks.

Their servers are horrible and, if SE is to be believed, the source of so many of our frustrations. I would welcome this with open arms. They need to fix the root of the problem, or we're just going to continue getting crappy systems.

[Elamys]

Unless you plan on sitting down in their seats and doing it yourself, whining over your keyboard isn't going to make it go by any faster. I think the server stability is more important than a small group making a forum about it. And trust me, I've been waiting for a house too.

This forum is for us to offer suggestions and let them know what the community wants. SE does listen to their users (at least sometimes) and a LOT more than other companies like, cough, Blizzard.

Contrary to what you seem to think, game development isn't done in a vacuum. There's nothing wrong with people having a civil discussion about what they would like to see. There is absolutely no reason SE can't do instanced housing - not only are the interiors already instanced but a lot of other games have done this.

If the servers are really so poor that they can't handle something that less successful games manage with no problem, then those servers have no business handling a game as popular as FFXIV. The frequent downtime and maintenance seems to attest to this.

There literally is no excuse, so stop pretending that there is. You know that.