1 account buying 14 houses in 1 ward.

[Acilith]

I'm looking around in 'their' ward right now, actually. Kinda looks neat to see an entire ward with one roof+roof color combo.


Just looking at the last interior. But for the most part, remember those spooky animal crossing villages? That's pretty much what their ward is here. Each house with a spooky 'Ascian' underdone.

That aside. They have owned 28 houses, in game, for over a year. Nobody would have noticed, or cared, if they didn't open transfers.

[Elamys]

I'm looking around in 'their' ward right now, actually. Kinda looks neat to see an entire ward with one roof+roof color combo.


Just looking at the last interior. But for the most part, remember those spooky animal crossing villages? That's pretty much what their ward is here. Each house with a spooky 'Ascian' underdone.

That aside. They have owned 28 houses, in game, for over a year. Nobody would have noticed, or cared, if they didn't open transfers.

I looked around "their" ward too. A number of the houses are either locked or completely empty, or sparsely decorated. They repeat the same styles over and over. They clearly aren't using all of these houses. And a lot, in my opinion at least, are flat-out ugly.

You're right, nobody may have cared before. But now people are coming, and instead of being nice and welcoming the new people to the server, they're clutching their toys to them and screaming that the people who want a house are wrong. Regardless of whether or not they were being used before, it is greedy. Nobody would appreciate that kind of selfish behavior IRL (I'm not talking about with real houses though I guess you could think of it that way) but for some reason it's okay on a game with thousands of people playing. Asking for "peace and quiet" on the world's second largest MMO is just not a reasonable expectation.

Everybody wants people to transfer off of Balmung, but nobody wants them on their server. It's worth knowing that people were trying to make Mateus a secondary roleplay server well before the transfer incentives were put in place. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.

[Ashiee]

You're right, nobody may have cared before. But now people are coming, and instead of being nice and welcoming the new people to the server, they're clutching their toys to them and screaming that the people who want a house are wrong. Regardless of whether or not they were being used before, it is greedy. Nobody would appreciate that kind of selfish behavior IRL (I'm not talking about with real houses though I guess you could think of it that way) but for some reason it's okay on a game with thousands of people playing. Asking for "peace and quiet" on the world's second largest MMO is just not a reasonable expectation.

I’m just going to start off by saying I have no idea who these people with 28 houses are, the only thing I know about them is from their Tumblr post that I have just read through.

They seemed to pick the server in the first place because it was dead, and they picked the most undesirable ward for housing in this game, which is the Goblet Ward 12. I just happened to make a character on Mateus to check out house availability on Mateus a week or two before the flood gates of Balmung opened up, and there were plenty of houses in every ward available. I was even shocked that the Mist and Lavender beds Ward 1 had housing available. Housing was not very desirable on this server, it was pretty obvious. They bought up the ward BEFORE the floodgates of Balmung opened up, and it doesn’t seem like they are trying to price gouge people at all, they just seem to genuinely enjoy housing and wanted to decorate houses and keep to themselves, so the fact that people are shit talking them now that SE decided to open up the floodgates I feel is super unjustified. They even said it themselves “Mateus showed no signs of getting bigger”.

People harassing them on the forums and talking shit behind their back should probably check themselves. They did nothing wrong in the first place. They picked a undesirable server and a undesirably housing ward. You guys can be captain hindsight now and tell them “you should have known that SE would lock up Balmung, and offer free transfers with full gil to another server, it’s incredibly selfish of you to have done and you should be ashamed”, but there was no housing crisis when they bought up the houses, and they were having fun with the housing ward that they own. If you really want to blame or shame anyone, it should be SE for setting up this crappy housing system in the first place, but don’t blame or shame these people for doing what was in their right to do in the first place. Honestly just leave these people alone.

[FoxyGrandpa]

IT's more of the fact that 1) they made that post and made it sound like they have a stick 5 ft up their asses
2) the palpable disdain that people from Balmung are moving to Mateus
and 3) the obvious exploitation of the housing system, which yes is shitty and SE made it clear that this could be done with "1 personal house per character"
The fact that they have used #3 is not only screwing over anybody that's moving to Mateus AND people that are just getting into the game and would like a house. All of them are now forced to wait til Shirogane is up. Even then there is the chance that people wont be able to get a house. A higher chance than they would on Balmung or Gilgamesh, but it still makes it hard for those that want a house for themselves or FC to get one.

[KiraCifer]

see someone selling a house by shout or PF report them as against the rules more so selling it for more money then they paid for it so let them bye 14 house when see them selling it for double the price report them if the GM doing what they should then should get a suspension if not out right ban then just got to wait 45days for them to come back up

[syunikiss]

I'm looking around in 'their' ward right now, actually. Kinda looks neat to see an entire ward with one roof+roof color combo.


Just looking at the last interior. But for the most part, remember those spooky animal crossing villages?

Aika Village still gives me chills.

[Besame]

One medium house and one apt here. Housing should be limited to 1 private house per server until they upgrade hamsters *rolls eyes*. Then, perhaps one per housing area only. Having a so called, "social neighborhood", which is non-existent anyway, is not worth denying housing to 90+% of the players.

House hording and fully decorating them all is like real life hording, causal effect: mental illness.

[Mirch]

only 14? lol