Quote Originally Posted by TenraiNagi View Post
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I definitely would agree that improvements to the instanced housing we currently have are needed so everyone who wants a house could have one.

It's the scope of the additional content you propose to add to that instanced housing that I don't agree with. Like it or not, developer time is limited and working on one project means time not spent on another. Do we have to start losing dungeons, beast tribes and other content so a relative handful of players can have pretend neighbors?

You would also be walling off that content and its potential rewards behind a large gil barrier. Not everyone player is going to want to pay millions of gil to buy instanced housing they don't want to get access to content they do want to do. There's no reason why such NPC interaction couldn't take place in the open world for all players to enjoy regardless of house ownership.