I come back through here every now and again to see what, if any, progress has been made with Housing in FFXI, and every time I come back there isn't any meaningful change on the horizon. Now the solution will be a lottery system. Better than what we had, not as good as what we could.

What I don't understand is the resistance against adding to the instanced versions of housing, both on the part of the players and the devs. It seems like such an obvious solution - those who really just want to have *access* to the things that are missing get what they want, and the people who like the big empty wards around them get their neighborhoods. The instances are already there in the form of apartments. Where does this need for the houses to be 'more useful' than the apartments come from? I thought it was about having the experience of a neighborhood. Isn't that what the argument has been against instancing all this time - that we want to keep the neighborhoods? Then keep them. I don't care. And you shouldn't care either about what you aren't seeing me do or not do in my little slice of instanced FFXIV paradise.

I have a house now, but I'd give it up in a heartbeat for an apartment that had access to gardening. Then someone who cares about having some ERP strip club next door can live the dream and I could stop setting an alarm to make sure I enter the stupid building every 30 days.

The whole system is just such a mess.

The big problem with this whole discussion is that one side is arguing for there to be *enough* for everyone and equal opportunity for all. The other side is arguing for many to go without so that a few can have more opportunities and resources than they even use. It's such a lousy attitude.