Housing Fans who have been upset: Cries Have Not Been Ignored Yet

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They just needed to inflate the prices substantially.

There is more and more gil on the servers as patches go on, because of the lack of gil sinks.
Without meaning to offend, the ease of earning the gil to afford a house is far too easy compared to when the original wards opened.
A huge part of the issue is that a very large portion of the community CAN afford a house.
Pair that with the limited resources due to the system / server limitations - you have a complete bumrush of every person and their dog are able to buy one, trying to log on at the same time.

My overall point is that the demand is huge, and the cost of purchasing a house is scaled far too low for the supply - partly due to the amount of gil that is sitting in people's pockets these days.

Only solutions is to bump up the supply (not all that feasible based on the system), or lower the demand (or at least accessibility) by increasing prices..
Either those, or rebuilding the housing system.