Housing is definitely one of my favorite features in FFXIV (but loved it in DAoC already, Rift… TESO). DAoC back in time had a similar system than FFXIV - people camping, waiting for the prices to go down and buying when they could afford a house (not so much of stealing someone's future plot while camping, different times then). And you could upgrade your house from small into medium and so on. On Rift on the other hand only totally instanced housing but … so many possibilities ! Building blocs, placing objects, modifying the size, rotating… A dream, really. TESO has its own way with some awfully expensive virtual domains and instanced housing only but no shortage. If you want to play with a house, you can easily get a huge ground (for free) to test your ideas.

And then FFXIV - lovely districts, lovely objects, neighbours etc. Well yes, I love it and by no means I would like it to disappear. But then again there is a sever shortage of plots. The game is old. Folks stop playing for what ever reason, they come back, that is normal. What is not normal is that one of the game's features is so difficult to get your hands on. And no, I don't think it should be for only few, an exclusive high end thing. Imagine now the same housing system we have and add to it an instanced system as a supplement. "Houses" in different zones, different sizes, with deferent purposes. No limitations what so ever besides some criteria to access it (gil, quests, FATEs etc). You could have one of those instanced houses or several or non. With permissions : open to all, friends only, FC only… Gardens with more than 30 or 40 items to place with a small cottage in the middle ? A fishing hut on the shore ?

Maybe difficult to implement, how can I know ? But wouldn't it be lovely ? And wouldn't SE want to at least explain why not ? Why do we still have to struggle with this outdated and frustrating system, a disgrace to be honest ?