I am still not sure who thought it would be a great idea to have wards for personal housing too. It was a nice idea for free companies since you could meet each other in the garden but they should have made the personal houses completely instanced. It would be like the apartments with one house in each city and you could have upgrated your house from a small to a large one. Maybe even have the small version as a gift from the main story. With that the FC would have way less competition and maybe a lot more FC would have their own house..

Yet instead of doing something for it (a house is not apartment) they made it even worse by cutting down the prices..Its so easy to make gil in this game and now even a large house barely costs anything..There is still that little hope that maybe they learned something and will introduce instanced housing for Ishgard or maybe a nice instanced house in Idyllshire.