Quote Originally Posted by Themarvin View Post
We are gonna get extra servers for people to move to on each DC with 6.0 hence more housing is available, though you need to change server for it + Ishgaard housing in 6.1 on every single server, I don't see the problem?

So yes we are gonna get more housing plots, it is already settled by SE development of next expansion, and if any of the DC upgrades is about housing.. then you know when you are gonna get it
I mean, honestly, I don't think it matters. You could double the number of plots available and there would still be 10-15 people chilling around each placard hoping to be the one to get it. The game's population is only ever going to increase with the expansion of free-to-play content, interest, advertising new expansions, etc. One server might have 5 plots empty in each ward whereas more population servers like Gilgamesh will still have a veritable horde of people standing around clicking their lives away instead of doing something more productive.

Not that it matters, honestly. If this and other threads are any indicator, the community seems pretty divided on whether or not it's even possible. Brass tacks is that lesser MMOs have already figured this out and while we could spend literal weeks debating the merits of how effectively they did so, it doesn't do anything to address FFXIV's case. We could argue about how "valid" housing is for the FFXIV experience revolving around its practicality in gameplay. People have different ambitions. Some want colored parses in Savage content, some want to have an awesome looking glamour they can share on Eorzea Collection, some want a house. Only one of those three has a barrier of entry that cannot be overcome solely by the player's own perseverance - at least not at the cost of enjoying any other aspect of the game.