Instanced Housing Seperate from Wards

[Squintina]

I'd be ok with just them making sure apartments are capable of all the features a player can access to with a house (specifically, cross breeding gardening! Patios/Balconies, make it happen)

[Solarra]

From the Dualshockers interview:

Regarding apartments, processes involving plots of land are executed within the zone in which they reside, while the interior of a house on a plot of land has its home within a separate housing server. Due to this, we cannot apply land management (i.e. a terrace) to an apartment, as its processing is the same as a house interior.

Full interview here

Well, that doesn't look very hopeful at all.
Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic but that sounds like gardening is not going to happen for apartments, even if they do manage to expand them. It also sounds like there might be technical reasons why instanced housing hasn't been considered as a solution.

[Claviusnex]

From the Dualshockers interview:

Full interview here

Well, that doesn't look very hopeful at all.
Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic but that sounds like gardening is not going to happen for apartments, even if they do manage to expand them. It also sounds like there might be technical reasons why instanced housing hasn't been considered as a solution.

Not technical. What this and other remarks Yoshida has made in regards to housing tells me he or they can't think outside of the context of how things work today. Even given his comment there is no reason they couldn't make a terrace another room that looks like it is outside and add the ability to use larger planters where plants could crossbreed.

[Naunet]

Not technical. What this and other remarks Yoshida has made in regards to housing tells me he or they can't think outside of the context of how things work today.

This, precisely. They have a severe innovation problem.