So like, houses were demolished and stuff. What was your experience?

[Bunnchu]

After scrimmaging around me and my FC was able to grab a plot in goblet. We intended to go to Lavender buuut of course its a popular spot. besides that not to bad.

[Kaela]

I logged in briefly and saw that half of the ward my personal house was at was demolished and several still open. This is Mist too. So easy picking to anyone who wants a house there. :P

[Gralna]

Seen quite a few new property owners in my ward, some look to be in the hands of active players that'll put the plot to good use, others look like they might drop in another 45 days.

[DukeGr]

I did some research yesterday for premium small plots located near summon bells/mb's in Mist. I was positioned for approx 2 hours outside my first choice when the demolitions on other servers began. There were other people camped in my spot too, the moment the house was demolished i snatched it in under 3 seconds. All Mist plots in Shiva were gone in approx 1min or so. Pretty intense the whole atmosphere yesterday.

[Twilite]

I love how only one person answered the OPs question.

[Atoli]

Let's not talk about the process leading up to the moment when they freed up, let's keep it at "it was a horrible experience that ended up making me literally sick" =.=
I had checked out every single plot in LB and Mist (Goblet is ugly, that wasn't an option xD) in the last few weeks, checked all kinds of conditions to find the "perfect" house and made a list of the houses I wanted the most.
Then I spend another day just going through hundreds of names on Lodestone, ranking the houses again on probability of getting demolished. So today I was 100% prepared and knew the only house I'd want would be Lavender Beds No.20
It is wonderful <3
Great view in every direction, sunny garden all day, right next to the stream, also right next to the market board, retainer bell, housing NPC and mini aetheryte and just very beautiful in shape! No weird side for the entrance, no ugly other walls or unpleasant neighbour houses next to it...and just super central in general, any area of the ward is easy to reach from there. And yet, not close to any big guilds and their main passage ways where they run and loiter around and throw their garbage on my lawn xD
So yeah, I NEEDED to get that house xD

Spending all day worrying if it will really free up, hiding at the market board to not draw attention to it when people ran around checking out houses, even going so far as to lie to 2 people who sent me a tell after they saw me sitting on the bench of the house, asking if it was mine...
It was a long day^^"

Ragnarok took forever to demolish the houses, but when it finally happened I was all alone right next to my dream house, while most others were coming from the town aetheryte. So of course I was the fastest and grabbed it *_*
It was around 5 million I think? Highest price for a small plot, but, duh, it has the best position in the whole housing area xD Still, people were crazy fast! o.O It was like 20 seconds after I had bought it, that people already ran me over with their horses, trying to buy my house x)
I checked if other houses had freed up, but the number was seriously low. Mine was the only house in the whole ward + 2-3 more in the expanded area. I went to town next to check the whole list of houses, and not a single one was left - and it hadn't even been 3 minutes since they got demolished!
I feel sorry for the people who wanted a house and didn't manage to get one, but I guess that's just how it is on very populated servers like Ragnarok. Few houses freeing up due to few people being inactive, and a huge number of people trying to buy those few.
All in all, it was not a bad experience
I'm happy I prepared so thoroughly, otherwise I wouldn't be a house owner now, I guess.

Oh, our FC also moved btw; from small house in Mist to medium in Goblet. We couldn't afford the priciest medium plots there (they go for around 37 million, I think?) so it's kind of..well..not a first-grade house, but it's okay. Goblet houses are bad anyway xD
So what difference does it make to have to run for ages to reach the market board, or that the garden is tiny as f*ck or that it is a north-side house which means the only sun it ever gets hits its backside?! xD

[Ilitsa]

I walked into Lavender beds, threw down 5 million for a private cottage and immediately gave an access key to the wife. Overall a pretty darn good experience

[Kassiekane]

I had no issues on Lamia because its an underpopulated server. All of the Mist houses were purchased immediately, but some few small houses in Lavender Beds were free and a truckload of Goblet houses were free ( I guess because its the least favorite area? ). My gf didnt want a house in the Goblet, so we settled for the Lavender Beds. Had I logged on an hour later however, I would have had no house.

People are trying to resell houses on Lamia, but since its a low population server it's not exactly prevalent, and I doubt many people on Lamia that didn't zerg the houses upon demolition has much interest in buying an overpriced property.

[NimaAmbers]

You guys don't even WANT to know the suffering going on back on little Jenova.

[Atoli]

You guys don't even WANT to know the suffering going on back on little Jenova.

Yesterday morning when SE threw out that emergency maintenance I was a bit annoyed and had a feeling of "Oh come on, it should be fine already, right? Just give us the houses already!"
But after reading what is happening on Jenova, I feel like they just forgot to implement the hotfix for your server too xD
And that's what would have happened everywhere. So...suddenly thankful for the hotfix °-°