Lol ok thank you Bleh for your post. I'm not doubting you're a realist philosophically but I wanted to point out that you don't really have any information to go on. We know so little of PS3 limitations, performance limitations, or even what performance is going to look like when the guy from Sonic Team finishes his work on the FFXIV game engine. I think giving up on the benefits of non-instanced housing for the "conclusion" that only instanced housing would work based on a false analysis is a big waste. I'm glad to hear your objections but saying ideas won't work is not an objection. Saying you don't want to see clutter is a valid objection. Do you see what I mean about there being a difference between an objection and pessimism?

Loony Bob just posted that he doesn't want to see 2,000 other houses on the way to his house. I think that's a great objection and I agree with him. Solutions to that: you could teleport straight to your house, you could not build houses so close together, there could be instances that accomodate a large amount of other players but stopping short of a huge amount of clutter. Also Loony Bob you mentioned you wouldn't want to see houses on the road. Maybe the dev team could set aside areas that are more rural? I think having houses farther away from the roads and camps is a lot cooler.