So are they really going to put the new wards live when the servers go up?

It is live. No waiting, the plots are ready for purchase.

There is NO delay. Housing plots are available.

I was able to queue in pretty fast at 368 and managed to snag a Medium Plot without any problem. But like less than 15 minutes later the novice chat began to say all the Mediums and Larges were gone already. Hope everyone got something at least.

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Originally Posted by Rokke

Balmung will still be messy, but with FCs limited to 1 per server per acc and personals locked out, RP alts aren't in the running. Even here theres going to be a lot less competition this time around.

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Balmung was/is smooth sailing. Snagged a lake front plot for my FC and there are still tons of plots open @ 20 min into servers going up.

It's almost like their new approach to housing release actually worked.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Early reports seem to suggest many players are having a significantly easier time getting in and finding available houses, so, sounds like a big improvement to me.

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The most desirable plots are already gone - Shirogane 30/60, Lavender Beds 11/41, Mists 5/35 etc. Tons of smalls still up and "less desirable" larger houses available, at least on Levi. Mind you, it's also only 30 minutes after maintenance.

Wow, whoever spread that "mistranslation" isn't very popular now.

On Shiva all Large Plots were pretty much gone after 5 minutes but there are still a few non-Shirogane Medium Plots available. The housing situation is still messy, just not as messy as before.

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Originally Posted by aeoncs

On Shiva all Large Plots were pretty much gone after 5 minutes but there are still a few non-Shirogane Medium Plots available. The housing situation is still messy, just not as messy as before.

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Some of the restrictions put in place helped. We didn't have the same people buying up 2+ plots this time around.

Whoever came up with the wrong translation needs to take some extra language lessons.
SE needs to make better announcements as well. An extra clarification on front page wouldn't hurt.
Never trust Live Letter translations 100%. It's not first time they spread misinformation.

If it wasn't for the fan translations we wouldn't have known about a lot of minor things Square themselves couldn't be bothered to tell us, though, so it's a mixed bag. I think the hour delay and (possibly, not sure of its exact origin) being able to take items out of the glamour toilet were the only misfires.

Personally I'm in favor of Square spending less money doing things like building ice sculptures and more hiring some translators for their pre-planned info dumps. Also pray that they 1.) actually give individual housing a proper advanced notice and 2.) consider putting an hour delay on that, considering this still didn't go off without a hitch (wife got bounced out of the launcher at 6am and then out of the game entirely after sitting in a 350+ queue).