Why is there still no good solution to the housing shortage?

[Shougun]

The only real fix would be going full instanced housing.

And they aren't backing from wards since they wanna insist on the "community" aspect - even if you barelly meet someone on the wards, and when you do, there is no interaction at all.

I think the ward system would have worked better if they stuck to FC only, it really doesn't seem worth it except for very rare situations given the alternatives one could have had (rather than having to settle "not be picky".. its a video game so I think that's silly, no one would have had to, and you can still technically have some community elements in other more dynamic systems).

While the work would be quite intensive now I believe they could add instances without ruining anything for the current ward users. Though personally IF they're making a new mmo I don't think the work to do that here is worth, may as well just save it as a major selling point for the next one (if that's something that is coming in not "10 years" lol).

to be fair, there would be a lot less people wanting houses if they arent limited anymore. people want to have rare limited things. and they cant show of their houses if housing is instanced.

Many MMOs with instanced housing systems, with very active housing communities - strong doubt here.

IF anything it's the other way around, if houses were more progressive in their growth and easier to obtain then far more people would be involved in houses.