Quote Originally Posted by SophiaDL View Post
If you listen to them, there's literally nobody in any housing ward, its actually an empty wasteland, yet off the top of my head, I know quite a few fcs that are very active in their wards, and that's just on top of people randomly visiting houses, leaving messages in the books, or just random interactions from time to time

I'll say it again for the people in the back, instanced housing will not be as good as you think it is.

Being in the middle of absolutely nowhere on your island with a house is not going to be a fun feeling, people will have to go through multiple hoops to even reach that place, if they even care enough to, which most wont, they'd rather chill in Limsa or at their own
In the case that somehow instanced housing makes it to old areas (mist etc), you'll basically have a house in the middle of... absolutely nothing, sure there's the beach, and you'll have your lone house there, and then what ? That's really what you want ? Something completely dead and barren just for the sake of having a house ? Can you imagine a mist ward, but with one house in the middle of it ? Or even if there's "fake" houses, it's just dead, boring, and lonely, there is nothing good about this.

A lot of players are already lonely enough in this game as it is, they dont need instanced housing to make them even more lonely than they already are, there is literally no positives to it, absolutely none.
I will disagree with this opinion till the end of time. It is a system that is locked or limited to a large number of players based solely on RNG. I would imagine that a lot of those players would love to have access to their own house to interact with, decorate, show off their creativity, and then have available to them when they come back off of time off from the game. I think you are grossly overstating the activity in housing wards the vast majority of the time. Maybe in some wards with prominent venues there will be a lot of activity when they are open. Otherwise you may go days or weeks without seeing anyone else since barely anyone hangs out in the housing wards. Your entire criticism of instanced housing negatives can be copy pasted for the current ward system.

The big positive is that it stops being completely RNG whether you get to interact with the housing system beyond your apartment and the completely seperate Island Sanctuary systems (which you can't even access till you finish 6.0 which is hundreds of hours into the game). As for your critique about how difficult it would be to get to a house, it's the same criticism for wards. You have to teleport to the correct city, go to the correct ward, and then teleport to the nearest aetheryte assuming you aren't on their friendslist. I imagine an instanced system would use a very similar system as the current ward teleportation system.