[Suggestion] Solving the "Housing Problem"

[Penthea]

I think we should forget WoW's garrisons, they were never designed as player housing but more as a throwback to WoW's RTS roots.

They were not intended as player housing but did fill some of the roles player housing does. My concern about instancing all player housing is the isolation it causes. There are obviously ways to mitigate this, but Blizzard were hardly new to the mmo scene and still managed to forget the game thrives on players being together. I see people in this thread and others saying things like "SE should scrap everything and make an instance per house" whereas I think the game would benefit much more if SE found a way to make housing available to more players while still keeping places like wards in the game.

What we are suggesting is expanding the apartment system so they offer more space and have as much utility as a house

I have said similar a few times now. The first step SE really need to make is to address how basic apartments are. I think nearly every player expected a balcony where you could do a little gardening and decorating, given that apartments irl often have them. But they're not apartments really. They're just fc rooms outside of fc houses. Everything is the same and you basically cough up an extra 200k for not needing to be in a fc. Really not worth the money.

I think we haven't seen apartments improve since because they were added within the limitations of the wards. I don't know the tech behind it but I think we can safely assume SE would have added more and/or bigger apartments if it was possible from the beginning. I sincerely hope that they will do more than just add Shirogane and the fc house transfer in Stormblood. I think we can hope they are changing and updating the tech behind the wards given that the fc house transfer system would most likely require this. So maybe soon we will see really big changes. /crosses fingers