Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
...even if everyone transferred off, there still wouldn't be enough housing...60 plots per ward, 12 wards per district, 4 districts per server, 66 servers -> 190k houses total. The last unofficial census had 400k characters at 70 total, over 600k eligible for housing and then you also have to account for FCs as well.
FFXIV was averaging 9000 new players per day when HW launched (http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/1...ptionbased-mmo) Should SE add 9000 more plots per day, just to make sure everyone has a chance to get one?

You're working on the assumption that there's meant to be enough housing for literally every player to have a house waiting for them as soon as they have the gil. Housing is deliberately scarce because it's intended to be a rare commodity.