Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Darrcyphfeid]

THIS!
They can just make an instanced balcony with say 10 items or something.

They have absolutely zero foresight. There's an interview that was done with Yoshi (don't have time to track it down at this moment) where he says that the way they went about creating/instancing apartments wouldn't let them incorporate yards/balconies. Maybe that's something they can figure out whenever they get around to ironing out details for making medium and large upgrades for apartments, but... yeah. That's gonna be a good while yet.

[Kytrin]

They have absolutely zero foresight. There's an interview that was done with Yoshi (don't have time to track it down at this moment) where he says that the way they went about creating/instancing apartments wouldn't let them incorporate yards/balconies. Maybe that's something they can figure out whenever they get around to ironing out details for making medium and large upgrades for apartments, but... yeah. That's gonna be a good while yet.

Well no, given all the drama with new wards and new rules and such I would hardly expect such a change in the immediate future. However, Yoshida did mention they would look into upgrading/reworking the apartments after 4.2, so it's not entirely unreasonable to think they might revisit this within the next 2 or 3 patches.