The devs are actually doing a great job

[HadesNight]

I can't speak for Beckett, but when I responded to him, I assumed what he meant was that personal and FC housing should have had different systems, and not the same ward system. Not that FC housing was more 'deserving' of houses, but that personal housing should be different from FC housing.

When the wards were introduced, they were FC housing only, and they filled up slowly (probably because players didn't have as much gil as most do now). We were told that personal housing would be different from FC housing, and then they changed their minds and decided to put personal housing in the wards (probably thinking that since the wards were so empty it wouldn't be an issue). This is the part that is the mistake, because the wards are limited and we run into this issue we have now of supply not meeting demand. If personal housing had been a separate, instanced system in the beginning, we wouldn't have this problem.

Don't get me wrong, I love housing in this game. There's a lot to admire about the system, for sure. But they did make mistakes - in this case a very big mistake - and it doesn't help anyone to try and pretend that this isn't the case.

Ah, if that is the case then yeah I can definitely understand that. Having two separate areas with the same setup would have alleviated a lot of the perceived slight.

Editing to add a left out thought: Although, I will say. Instanced housing is not as satisfying in any game as the ability to have a full physical plot.
I personally (I'm one person) would feel like housing is trash and definitely not be as enthused (i am addicted to housing in this game) as I am now if it was just "you can only see my house if i give you the invite and you have to pick it from a list of other indistinguishable realms). I've had housing in other games. I love their ability to customize way better than FFXIV but i absolutely hate the isolationist feel of instanced housing in all games I've tried it in.

I really adore having convos with friends in my yard lol.

So SE, while I'm agreeing that seperate FC wards would be cool, I am not agreeing to instanced housing only for individuals if you happen to look at this lol.