State of the Game prior to Liveletter

[Lauront]

widespread disappointment imminent from people who were led to believe it was the equivalent of instanced housing.

Nobody from the devs has led anyone to believe this and in fact yoshi has been out saying to temper expectations. If people get upset at no instance housing that’s on them. Still won’t stop them posting 2 pages worth of complaints about how they lied to us and it should have instance housing when it drops tho. Counting the days

And if they're upset about it just because of how lacklustre it ends up being? I keep seeing this instanced housing thing crop up, which was speculation seeded by some gaming sites covering commentary on it. But it was still presented as a major feature of the new expansion, and I think the instanced housing thing is a bit of a strawman here. It's not necessary people to think it's that, for it to end up being disappointing.

I'm sure there's some who will be disappointed for that reason, but whatever. The fact that we have to go into everything with such minimal expectations says something in itself. I am just judging them against their own words, be they here, or during the announcement event.