[Suggestion] Solving the "Housing Problem"

[Naunet]

Yea all that is seriously cool but my experience in WoW has very much coloured my view on instanced housing.

Garrisons are not at all housing - especially when compared to WildStar. The housing community in WildStar is incredibly open and interactive and you definitely don't feel like you're on your own in a little private world. Housing in WildStar also isn't meant to be a quest/mission hub, like Garrisons were designed. In WildStar, the community developed out of people sharing ideas, folk building interactive housing plots (obstacle courses, mazes, dueling arenas, freakin' mini golf, roleplay hubs of a zillion varieties, even a couple literal MALLS), and player-run events. It's intrinsically tied to the community and not NPCs. I can only imagine the wonders that Communities will do for WildStar housing (being able to link multiple plots together visually); it's going to be amazing.

That's something that FFXIV should strive for!

Whatever there is to be said of SE, I haven't yet seen them make a habit of introducing massive features that don't align with what players want or need.

That literally describes housing. XD

[Penthea]

That literally describes housing. XD

I said a HABIT. Habit requires repetition. SE haven't made gigantic mess ups like this numerous times.

EDIT: unless you want to get overly pedantic and count most of 1.0, but I think we can all agree that was a very special case.