the problem is real houses are extremely limited to the point of not even supplying a small fraction of people that want them. I mean they just increased the available housing by 30% and it was gone before most people could even get past the queue generated in the first 5 seconds of server up. Even all the houses vacated by people moving, I kind of felt bad for all the people standing around the city crystals scanning for vacancies long after shirogane was already filled out

and instanced housing is woefully inadequate, it doesn't have half the utility of an actual house and no outdoors at all and instanced means your not part of a neighborhood at all
heck, even small houses don't really offer adequate utility. Gardening seems to be designed around 3 plots of crossbreeding simultaneously and material supplier+junkmonger is needed for all the useful items

then to add to the mix an FC needs a house to actually do a decent amount of FC activities and even the largest houses are cheap enough for most people to afford solo at this point


It's just like a recipe for catastrophe that should have been very visible before even implementing it