I can't help but feel square enix wants housing to be limited. It drives subs that are scared of demolition.

I can't imagine Ff14 tech is worse than Lotro which launched in 2007. I mean, I would hope not.

For those who are unaware, LOTRO has instanced wards, just like FF14.

30 houses per ward, each with a unique address.

As each ward sells out, the game generates a new one. This can continue a good amount of time, with thousands of houses being the cap. While some servers did hit their limit, most didn't. This is because there are four different housing groups a cap of thousands. Even FF14 would struggle to cap that out.

Each house interior is a separate instance (just like ff14)

There is kinda an auto demolition, but not. You have to pay a mortgage using in game gold. It takes like 5 mins to get the currency you need, and you can pay something like a year upfront.

So, how can a game from 2007 (which still gets a sizeable number of players, I want to add) get something right, and ff14 comes up so short.

Why are wards not auto generated when new ones sell out?

The only reason is, surely, Squaresoft doesn't want to miss out on those sweet subs from people scared of demo?

Oh, and I wouldn't believe square when they say steam won't let them use non-steam accounts to login, or to buy stuff away from steam on a steam-created account. Other games have done it. I don't get why it is different with squaresoft. Maybe they just want that sweet cash.