Quote Originally Posted by Stormpeaks View Post
housing is fine as it is... Housing in FFXIV is perfectly fine... it just needs more wards added.
Are we playing the same game?
You are ofc entitled to your opinion, but I'd love to know the reasoning behind your statements that it is 'perfectly fine'.
We have hundreds of people competing for houses and no sign of that situation getting better. In fact, with auto-demo off, it would be logical to assume the situation is only going to get worse.

I would definitely support adding more wards if I believed they could add enough to satisfy demand. However, due to wards being persistent, I don't believe the devs would be able to devote sufficient resources.
Another argument against more wards would be that players generally want medium and large houses but will settle for smalls if nothing else is available. Should the game decline in popularity, then you could have wards where the medium and larges are occupied and most of the smalls are empty (rather like Empyreum FC wards now).

Instanced houses added alongside the ward system would be far more flexible and future-proof. I don't think many are arguing against keeping the wards. It's just that adding more wards alone is unlikely to be sufficient to meet demand.