Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[SassyAssassin]

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No of course, some wards should be left for those who want to, but if they introduced instanced housing, there would most likely be more than enough plots left to choose from and that way they could also up the nr of larges instead of making wards consist of mainly smalls.

Instanced housing won’t necessarily mean people won’t be social so Yoshi has nothing to fear. Take eso for example (sorry I always give eso as example but in this topic it fits the customisation you mentioned as well), you have instanced housing, but depending on how large your home is, you can fit up to 24 people at once, not only that but you can visit anyone’s home from your party, friends list or guild, yes they won’t be random strangers on the street but hell, you can even do that if you want, we can gather them and take them in our house and yard and pretty much everywhere.





If you go on the eso subreddit you’ll probably still notice (I haven’t checked it in years) that people are actually way way more social with instanced housing than anything you ever see in ffxiv, ironically.
People host weddings, gatherings of any kind, they refurbish and adapt to any occasion and overall…..actually spend time there with other people because the homes feel like homes and not another randomly placed square by an empty street with people you don’t know or care about.

Of course in ffxiv you have the nightclubs but again, that doesn’t depend on wards either, people announce it in world and the nightclubs might have as well been instanced too!

Edit: in those pictures you don’t even see 20% of the entire house. There’s a big inside place, a massive pool, a cave and a beach, I couldn’t fit it all in one picture but you get my point, it has more to offer than an entire ward.

[Midareyukki]

Instanced housing won’t necessarily mean people won’t be social so Yoshi has nothing to fear. Take eso for example (sorry I always give eso as example but in this topic it fits the customisation you mentioned as well), you have instanced housing, but depending on how large your home is, you can fit up to 24 people at once, not only that but you can visit anyone’s home from your party, friends list or guild, yes they won’t be random strangers on the street but hell, you can even do that if you want, we can gather them and take them in our house and yard and pretty much everywhere.

Do not be sorry o,o those not only are pretty much what I had in mind for the most part, they're actually even better looking than anything PSO2 has available. Those look bloody gorgeous!

And idk if the community feeling is a thing born from the game itself or from the way housing is designed. Because if ESO can do that, then FF14 disproves any need for large plaza-like systems for that to exist. Because, sure, it exists out there, and some people did meet friends that way, but it's not the one and only way.

Advertising nightclubs can also be a thing either way We have the Fellowships, those NPCs that show you house tags... Really, there are plenty of ways to go about this. The system we have is really restrictive.

And I know I keep harping on it, but given how tight some stuff is for larger races, those ESO areas would honestly feel much better than the cramped patios we have to work with.