Quote Originally Posted by redheadturk View Post
This intelligent person [who does finally own a house, but I digress] thinks SE needs to swap to instanced housing asap.
I agree. Enhancing the existing instanced housing system to give players a greater of variety of options within it, including house plots and not just different apartment sizes, would be far better than continuing to pour resources into a ward system that struggles to fill demand.

But I also understand it's not a change that SE could make overnight on a whim even if they made that decision. We're not going to see things getting any better soon.

At this point, I think we're stuck waiting to see how Ishgard housing turns out. For now it looks like it's going to be another ward based housing system but I still remember the information Yoshi-P shared at the EU FanFest about new technology they're working on that would allow players to view non-instanced housing areas from inside an instanced housing area. Hopefully it means that Ishgard housing will be using that technology and what we'll get is instanced housing organized within a ward layout.

I doubt it - but I'm still going to hope.