Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
No let me spell it out for you in more blunt terms.

Square Enix has bungled the housing situation from the very start. The second they gave individual players the ability to purchase company housing plots. Every single thing they have done from then has been trying to put band-aids on a burgeoning system they have no chances to control or provide for players as with their original promises. They continue to put these stop-gap measures into place when they should be swallowing the hard pill and admitting they goofed and need to rework the whole system from the ground up.

But they wont, they have no incentive to fix the system properly when they can continue to mangle the current system.
If you think the mistake began with the Personal Housing system, you're sorely mistaken.

The problem is STARTING with a public instancing system on an infrastructure that could not support four times as many players as they initially anticipated. Everything else has been bandaids since then.

They should have started with the apartment system, then moved onto FC and Private housing, but Yoshida was married to a promise that was made back in 1.xx - and instead of abandoning it, he developed himself into a corner he's not getting out of for another three years.