Quote Originally Posted by MaikoRaines View Post
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I'm not about the life of hoarding houses to flip. That's against TOS, and so I'm against it. If you look at what I've been arguing about, it's been specific to the Mateus two who are often cited as the biggest problems in this, when they aren't.

The mounts / plots is not a direct comparison. My comparison is specific to time spent, because that's the thing people tend to forget. It's not just the gil spent, it's the time invested in it. Like I said, I'm 100% behind finding a fix, I just don't think that the two Mateus players should be foisted on pikes to get there. ( Technically if you want more than one of a specific kind of mount, you would need an alt, but that's semantic. ) The comparison was less the item comparison, and more the effort part, because people say "make them give up the plots, but compensate them" as though gil would be an adequate compensation for a year's time.

They earned the cash, and they leveled the alts to get them. The old, native Mateus players never had an issue with it, and the new ones only had a problem because... well, frankly, they got screwed by the rush. The old Mateus players knew there was still hundreds of plots open when the other two went to get their ward. I have no sympathy for the new Mateus players who took advantage of a free service and then were sad because they didn't get a house on top of it.

I didn't realize the Kotaku thing was actually an interview - I read it, and I thought Kotaku was just quoting things from their tumblr response. They said that stuff on tumblr because at that point, it'd been a source of constant harassment. People snap eventually, and if all they did was say some mean stuff, then oh well.

The argument of not needing a house, again, is specific to gameplay. I don't have a house, and I can do pretty much anything I want in game. I say the need isn't there because it isn't. I also say that the two don't -need- their 28 houses, but they have them nonetheless, and it's up to them what to do with them ( until SE does something about it. )