Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
You are not only asking them to copy other game's system and you are also asking them to invest physical hardwares into something only minimal players will actively using.
That is why I said it is not optimal not only to corporate suits and also SE's shareholders.
Invest server hardwares into datacenter expansion in contrast is more optimal

Let me further explain on how your idea will not work.
Beside investment of hardware resources, you are also pretty much asking the devs to spend development resources into creating a new system on top or original system (only drawback by supply unable to meet demmand)
How many hot potatoes that current devs have right now?

Let's list:
Hrothgars almost turned into forum terrorist during their persuade of Hrothgar refinement and female Hrothgar
PvP side, in which is now quite big chuck of playerbases also demanding further refinement of currentPvP system
Playerbase also want a better report system for TOS abuse and harassments, urgently.
Majority of players want better gear design
The list will just go on and on...

Why would them want to recreate/copy a system from scratch?
In theory housing is already a hardware investment only minimal players are using and there's no way to ensure it's distributed to the people that would actively use it the most.

Also, housing availability is a long standing issue and has led to "bad press" at times. On top of that the current system is limiting in a way that other housing systems aren't.
They could open up the option to have instance options on the mogshop or as rewards, housing rewards for things could also become much more common when everyone can have one. There's also more of an argument for improving things in the system, we have the crafters workbenches which could be upgraded, for example, to potentially be an investment that can make crafter levelling much faster.