Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

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EQ2 has always had instances and came out the same time as wow. You can have unlimited items basically in your housing instance. My wife built a castle from the ground up. You didn't get a plot/instance with a house. You could get an instance based on a certain zone and build every wall, floor, roof, etc of your house, and fill it with whatever you could place down. Not to mention you could right click and preview paintings and furniture right from the broker. As old as EQ2 is, and with no limitations on instanced housing, it would work here too.

If the servers weren't made for that, it'd take a lot more work to rework everything and would need an entire overhaul of the system, it wouldn't be something they could do in a week on top of everything else for patches + xpac + graphical update. Finite dev time + finite devs makes this incredibly difficult for something that they didn't intend in the first place to code.

Unfortunately "durrrr throw money at it" isn't an actual solution to technical problems.

Considering they wanted to add more DCs during ShB and they even said "we tried throwing money at new servers and they just didn't have them," money is indeed not the answer to this. Their main focus is making sure people can actually play first, as that will always be Priority 1, and as I recall they've said they want to expand housing servers once they're done expanding DCs and additional servers. It'll take time and I know no one wants to hear that it's going to take time, but the need to actually secure things needs to happen first before they can do anything more. At the very least I would love for them to rewrite enough code to compartmentalize housing items filesizes to open a couple more wards each patch, but I don't know how feasible that is.