Housing, what do you think?

[Chihaya]

The solution is to add more houses and private house sharing, not charge people a rental fee. Momomi is right, paying a fee will make it feel like a job. Since the housing system originally didn't have a maintenance fee, it would be totally unfair for SE to just add it.

If it was just that easy...
SE has continued to use server limitations to hold off on adding more wards and have stated that they believe they have fulfilled demand for the the number of housing and is looking to expand the functionality of housing rather than adding more wards.

Yes, I understand maintenance fee would not be popular, but as of right now, there is no way to put houses that have pretty much been abandoned by inactive FCs back into the market. SE had originally planned to force houses to be relinquished after 30-35 days of inactivity but scrapped the idea after too many complaints. This is not very sustainable as on populated servers as all the houses are gone already - even the large.

I have played a few MMOs where player housing/rooms does not cost anything, but they are also typically instanced and unlimited in terms of numbers. For MMOs that have limited number of housing, you need a way to reintroduce housing back into the market else newer players/free companies would never be able to own one.

[Riepah]

If it was just that easy...
SE has continued to use server limitations to hold off on adding more wards and have stated that they believe they have fulfilled demand for the the number of housing and is looking to expand the functionality of housing rather than adding more wards.

Then start up a massive wave of complaints and try to get SE to change things for the better, rather than suggesting a system that'll punish the playerbase even more. We pay monthly fees, and SE is happy to rake in more money via paid retainers and cash shop items, even selling dye for extra profit - so they should put some of that extra profit back and upgrade their servers, rather than recycling their server limitations excuse.