Will Housing ever be addressed in any meaningful manner by the XIV team?

[Driavna]

My source (but if you are interested just investigate a little about how different our cultures are) is my time playing Koreans games at their original servers and then play the same game at EU/NA servers. My favorite example is BnS and their bid system: in NA/EU "bid scammers" or just people inflating a bid to milk gold from you are a very common thing, there never happen to me. In Aion people ignore low levels but in their EU/NA version GL HF and enjoy your 24/7 ganking.

Another good example from BnS is how factions split the channels (1 channel for Crimson, other for Cerulian and one to do PvP) so everyone can farm in peace if they wanted to. In NA/EU you better join the dominant faction (by numbers) or GL HF and enjoy your 24/7 zerg.

In short, EU/NA don't give a xxxx as a general rule but I also not saying Korea or Japan are the perfect player experience, but devs need to adapt their system to each region and for NA/EU they need to take in consideration how big of assholes can manage to be at times (meaning 1 house per account rule since day 1 at least for example).

The problem isn't the players, it's SE

I did not blame the players just state that a housing system focused around FC won't fly here.

[Penthea]

My source (but if you are interested just investigate a little about how different our cultures are) is my time playing Koreans games

I know plenty about japanese and korean culture and while I am very much aware their cultures are very different to the west, I haven't encountered anything that suggests only a minority of players would consider purchasing a house for themselves. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just saying it's not exactly a well-known aspect of their player mentality.

And if someone thinks you are the worst player in the known universe he will just endure the run and move along, here you are likely to get harassed.

In short, EU/NA don't give a xxxx as a general rule.

I can honestly say that has most certainly not been my general impression of NA/EU players in FFXIV. Not even remotely. Of course there are some bad eggs, but they can pop up anywhere. I have found that most people are at least decent and polite, and rarely have a bad thing to say unless someone is seriously doing such a bad job that the group is suffering. And well in that case something does need to be said.

In Aion people ignore low levels but in their EU/NA version GL HF and enjoy your 24/7 ganking.

Just want to say, don't play in a pvp area, server or game if you don't want to get ganked.

I did not blame the players just state that a housing system focused around FC won't fly here.

I didn't say you did. I was just explaining that players aren't to blame if the housing system is so broken that we can't even hope there will be enough houses even if they were only owned by legitimate fcs.