Quote Originally Posted by Sauteed View Post
but I do absolutely hope they inform us soon about the end result of the Ishgardian restoration, so that people do have an informed basis to make the decision to either stick it out and endure living in an apartment or just abandon ship for something like BDO.
They almost never give us details until the content is about to be released (usually one of the live letters before the release patch). I don't expect it to be any different for Ishgard housing.

Based on the pacing of the Restoration so far, housing won't be getting released until the 5.5 patch. They're highly unlikely to make any significant changes to the housing system before Ishgard's release. Maybe they'll add on another 3 wards in the meantime like they did in 5.1? I doubt it.

"Gimme this one thing I want or I quit" has never been a successful tactic to try with game developers. Housing in general, and houses in particular, are a very small part of the overall content in the game. If people are going to quit over not being able to buy a house, then it sounds like they're really not enjoying FFXIV overall and the lack of a house is just the excuse they pick for why they're leaving. Getting a house probably wouldn't change their overall satisfaction enough to keep them from quitting.

If the player doesn't plan to quit completely but just wants to take a break from the game to play other things for a while while waiting for more content to be released, the dev team actively encourages players to do that regardless. They don't want anyone getting burned out.