So with all the people complaining that 1,536 isn't enough...

1,536 per server. There are 64 servers.

That's 98,304 apartments. They need to ensure server stability and not put too much strain on the servers all at once. When you consider the amount of housing we already have, that tenancy exists and that there is FC rooms for those who are in a housed FC that they are happy with, I think this is more than reasonable. At first we were expecting only apartments in Ishgard - they went and gave us apartments in the Mist, Lavender Beds AND the Goblet instead. I think we got better than we at first expected yet people are still complaining it's not enough.

Granted, this is across all data centers and servers but they need to manage the overall stability of them all at once.