Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
Well... there are still several plots open on Balmung actually. Mostly smalls, naturally, but I'm actually pretty amazed. If housing had stayed FC restricted all along, we might not even have needed this latest batch of wards.
Quote Originally Posted by Fyce View Post
Individual housing was a mistake to begin with.
They could've done way better with appartments while leaving houses for FCs. All of that drama would've never happened.
Quote Originally Posted by Youkulm View Post
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If anything personal housing should have never happened and if it did.. not in FC wards.
Back when housing was first introduced, it was FC only.
They had stated that they were going to do personal housing that was different, and cheaper than FC housing.

That didn't happen.
They did the quick and easy implementation of just letting individual players purchase FC houses.

Had the apartments been implemented back then, we probably wouldn't be in quite this dire of a situation.
We probably would have even had better apartments, due to having years to iterate on them.

Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
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Personally, I see the main fault of the devs in putting private housing into the wards in the first place. That is the one mistake they have made that keeps breaking everything and I see the large amount of vacancies on even Balmung as proof of that.

This is the thing they need to fix. They need to provide a decent alternative to the ward system for private housing. And I doubt they can do that in a satisfactory way without setting up an entirely new system, i.e. instanced housing.
I'm not sure they can 'fix' it at this point.
The apartments are supposed to be the alternative to wards for individual players.

And, they can't force that issue without permanently restricting individual players from purchasing FC houses.
And I get the feeling that doing that would really rile up the playerbase.
(Especially considering some of the comments in this thread about the temporary restrictions)


The devs backed themselves into a corner.
And I don't think they can get out of that corner without pissing some people off.