Only 1536 apartments per server?

[Hyrist]

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.

[Jynx]

They should have started with the apartment system.

Having physical housing for companies makes sense, personal player housing obviously didn't. They from day 1 stated that personal housing would (Obviously) be a totally seperate system, the lazy decision to flip the ownership switch to individual players is what damned them from that day forward.

If they continued to develop the personal housing system as a separate system that could accommodate all players they wouldn't be in this mess. Wether they did it first or last isn't the issue, it's the fact they got lazy and just decided to repurpose the current FC housing system.

[Khemorex]

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.

Its always easy to "talk afterwards" and make comments on something after its been released :P