What does Heavensward actually bring to the table as an expansion?

[DawnSolaria]

I get that you like that "neighborhood" experience. It's a nifty idea. It's executed horribly and it sucks that I can't have a house and folks like you are arguing that it should stay this way because you have based your entire gaming experience around watching strangers run around a ward. No one needs a housing system to be social. Garrisons weren't a failure because instanced housing makes people antisocial. Garrisons put too much game content inside instead of it just being a fluff house, and it locked crafting behind your garrison's progress - the whole design was flawed from the beginning. XI had instanced, individual mog houses, which is what I actually suggested SE base the player housing here on, and that game was the most social experience you could ever have in an mmo.

"No one needs a housing system to be social" this is strictly your opinion, so please stop using word such as "No one". Garrisons is a mobile game, there is very little content beside sitting there click a few button then wait for missions to finish. Anti-social wasnt the whole reason, but it sure is one why Garrison failed.

I do not want nor do i care for your silence, what I do care is SE changing the experience that I and some other players(may not be the majority and may be, i dont know) enjoy.

"Why do you feel your artificially created social experience (that you could have anywhere else outside the wards) is worth me (and others) not getting to have a house at all?" And why do you feel taking away my(and many other's) social experience is worth you getting a house? Its a MMO, its meant to be social. Want a real house sim? play sims 4.

Lastly if its as you said, that instance is more cost efficient, than why havent they done so yet(and from the start)? I will say im no programming expert, but im in progress of obtaining a degree in said field, so i would like to see more concrete evidences of resources usage. Which i dont believe we would ever see.