Quote Originally Posted by Eraden View Post
I would tend to agree with all of what Jojoya said here. It's also the reason why, I suspect, that Island Sanctuaries are being developed. The developers don't appear to have any interest in dealing with the housing issue in any definitive way. I believe they are implementing Island Sanctuaries to provide players with access to gardening without having to deal with the housing issue.
Except we already know that whatever farming is coming with Island Sanctuary won't be the gardening we have with housing. YoshiP has stated there are no timers involved. The timers in gardening help contribute to the high prices of items like Thavnairian Onions on the MB because few house owners are interested in dealing with the timer stress.

It makes no sense for SE to invest a lot of time and effort into Island Sanctuary if it's intended to be a substitute for housing systems when they could have put the time and effort into updating housing directly instead.

With 6.15 announced for June 7th, we should be getting one of the Live Letters for 6.2 soon. Let's hope they finally release concrete information about Island Sanctuary that will put the speculation and rumors to rest finally.