Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Neighborhood feeling could still be achieved with instanced housing.
Leave the wards as they are, and add in instanced housing on top of that. Make it so players can transfer their existing houses into the instanced housing system and vice versa (you can't have both a ward house and an instanced house, just one or the other). Include perks as incentive for the instanced houses (examples: ability to upgrade size, more space in the yard for items, lack of demolition timer, etc). Those players who like the wards can stay there, and you'll probably find more like-minded neighbors as those who prefer instanced housing and/or want the perks move out.

This is exactly what I'm hoping they're going to introduce with Ishgard housing. I know logically that they probably won't, but I still have hope right now.