Is player instanced housing more of a strain on the server?

[Jojoya]

But Yoshi has gone on record stating he wants the wards to maintain the community aspect of housing which he thinks will disappear with instance housing.

What community aspect? I see others in the ward with my house maybe once every 2-3 months despite being at my house daily and making trips to the MB or vendor for Curious Crop exchange a couple of times a month. My house overlooks the beach in Mist and I never see anyone hanging out on the beach.

From my point of view, I live in an abandoned village. It might be a mostly well-decorated one, but it's still effectively abandoned. There is no community in it. The ward where my FC has its house isn't much better. The FC house is fairly active because we have fairly active members. Move away from the house and it's dead again despite being located right next to Dappled Stalls.

I would be far happier in an instanced plot where i had more freedom to decorate to my liking instead of how I decorate being constrained by system limitations due to 29 other owners I never see.

Where in housing do I see the most players? When I'm standing at the Summoning Bell outside the apartment building where I have the apartments for my characters (only 21 apartments in that building are occupied and 5 of those are mine). It's a rare day I don't see other players teleporting in then almost immediately disappearing inside the building.

Now that adds a little community feeling even if I don't get a chance to talk to those players before they disappear inside. It works because you've got a large number of players being funneled to a small common area. That would have been a much better inspiration for the wards - a central common area that dozens if not hundreds of owners must pass through before entering their instanced estate.

I’m no server tech but you don’t need to be a chef to know when your food isn’t tasty.

Different people have different tastes. Just because onions aren't tasty to me doesn't mean that others don't like them.

The real problem is that regardless of whether your food is tasty or not, it doesn't nothing to help those who are hungry but can't get food. You might choose to share your food but that won't get them the food that is tasty to them when they want it.

It's probably won't be since it doesn't have to load the outdoors for every player in the ward.
But it's a huge undertaking to get in place. Probably would take a whole expansion cycle if not more since they have trouble to allocate resources and find good developers in japan.

Maybe they should increase their dev team to NA but i guess they prefer it in japan for the language barrier and maybe cultural differences.

True, it would be a huge undertaking.

But it's also one they should have started on back in Heavensward when the flaws in the ward system were becoming very apparent instead of deciding "we'll just make a new housing district, that will fix things!"