Give us Instanced Housing, SE!

[MistyMew]

You might want to refine that topic a bit. Technically we already have instanced housing. They are called apartments. It might be a good idea for you to define why apartments are not sufficient (I would agree on that, current apartments are not sufficient) and present some ideas on what you are specifically looking for and how the changes could be achieved. My own list includes tenants and larger places, both of which could be achieved with an upgraded apartment system. What are your wants?

Those "wants" have already been voiced 1000x now when it comes to apartments and housing in general. For what..8ish years now?, if they cant understand what players want when it comes to housing by now, then its a lost cause .

Either they are not capable of understanding the specific requests for YEARS... or they simply don't care....

SE fess up and please have the decency to say which it is.

[george357]

wow another thred demanding give me now!!! and you expect them to jump to change don't hold your breath waiting for it.

[Bukachu]

wow another thred demanding give me now!!! and you expect them to jump to change don't hold your breath waiting for it.

"give me now"

its been a request for 8 years bozo

[Silverbane]

if they cant understand what players want when it comes to housing by now.

What a relatively small percentage of the subscriber base say they want on these forums is not necessarily representative of what most players want. I'm pretty sure SE understands that, but do you?

And as I said before, MMORPGs are not bespoke: Yoshi-P and his team will create what they want to create, and each consumer then decides whether to buy it. Accordingly, "Yoshi-P doesn't want it" is all the justification that's needed for not including something in FFXIV (no matter what any vocal minority wants or says they want) especially since that's the strategy that's made FFXIV a success.

[Ransu]

Those "wants" have already been voiced 1000x now when it comes to apartments and housing in general. For what..8ish years now?, if they cant understand what players want when it comes to housing by now, then its a lost cause .

Either they are not capable of understanding the specific requests for YEARS... or they simply don't care....

SE fess up and please have the decency to say which it is.

Housing was never intended for personal use. They designed it the way it is because it was meant to be for FC's. Opening it up to individual/private ownership was honestly a mistake.

[Gemina]

Either they are not capable of understanding the specific requests for YEARS... or they simply don't care....

SE fess up and please have the decency to say which it is.

This is ridiculous. You know what this sounds like? It reminds me of a kid telling their parents that if they don't get what they want for their birthday, then they must not care or love them. I remember telling that to my parents... when I was eight.

Let me swing this another direction. if after 8ish years you still haven't accepted that housing is a finite system in FFXIV, AND you're still paying a monthly sub, I am going to strongly suggest some self-reflection, and possibly even time away from the game.

[Midareyukki]

Those "wants" have already been voiced 1000x now when it comes to apartments and housing in general. For what..8ish years now?, if they cant understand what players want when it comes to housing by now, then its a lost cause .

Either they are not capable of understanding the specific requests for YEARS... or they simply don't care....

SE fess up and please have the decency to say which it is.

That's a false dichotomy.

They might be aware of what people have been asking, but they look at the way their current system is designed and they realize they would need to rework it from scratch. And that's just not going to happen. Best we've gotten were apartments.
They'd have to rework the wards in their entirety. They'd have to rework the code for plots, especially the outside which likely won't be available anymore. Likewise for items and furniture that would change the layout of the exterior.
No investor would be okay with that, and SE itself would likely tell the team to get bent. Plus, that's not even accounting for the manpower and work hours required to do that.