Housing restrictions not fair for individuals.

[DioK]

Usually in real life if you want a product, you'll eventually get it provided you have the money. Maybe it's out of stock when you get the cash together, but it will be restocked at some point soon enough and then you'll have it. In real life if you have the money for something, someone will find a way to sell it to you.

In real life, there are cases where that is not true. I've been in those cases and seen others be in those cases. No, just like in real life, you don't always get what you want and you can't have everything your way. Sometimes you just have to be adult and deal with it.

Honestly, guys, if you really feel that bad about it all and having the entirety of your fun with the game being ruined, rather than waste time and energy pissing about it, just go find another game with which you will find more enjoyment.

I won’t claim the current system is perfect, cause it's not. But, in my opinion, it’s a helluva lot better than before. At least when individual housing opens, there will be people that will get a house (at least on my server, Ultros, there were tons of lots sitting vacant in all districts, last I looked, which was yesterday). Further, there is now the explicit restriction of 1 FC house and 1 personal house per account per server. That enforcement didn’t exist previously, but now it does. Now one thing I would have like to have seen is incentive given to multiple house owners (of which I am not, by the way) to give up some of their houses to make more available for those who don't yet have one. Before, there were many FCs that were homeless; now, that is not so true. Individuals have multiple options for housing, a personal house, an apartment, a private room within an FC. As far as I know, an FC has precisely 1 option for house and that is to buy a house. So, I can easily see why the priority would be given to FCs. And, yet, despite, there still remains, after the addition of wards, a fair number of houses available for individuals, a situation that did not exist prior. Furthermore, as far as I know, the demolition timing is back on; so, there is a possibility, in the future, that houses will become open. Even further, the random timer on a freed lot becoming available for purchase makes house flipping somewhat more difficult, at least not without leaving an obvious trail of FC name changing and ownership hand-off.

However, no matter what you do, there will always be those bad apples that will seek to ruin it for others, either for their own self gain or twisted amusement. Just like in real life, there are plenty of laws intended to stop people from doing certain immoral or unethical things, but people find ways to do them anyway. Also, just like in real life, nothing stops you from going out and murdering a bunch of people other than your own morals, ethics, sense of decency, or just fear of retribution should you get caught, no matter what laws may exist. Again, it's not the rules or the system that is the problem; the problem is the behavior and mindset of the people playing the game. As long as there are those people bound and determined to not share or play well with others (like the case of FCs splintering into small groups to buy up entire wards), there will always be a problem, no matter what the rules say. About the only case for which that might not be true would be if there is no housing at all, a position I could easily agree with, given the behavior of players in this game, despite myself owning a cottage in Shirogane (I was lucky enough to relocate to the exact plot I had originally wanted when Shirogane first opened, and I did so like 4 hours after the servers had gone live).

Now, I expect when individual housing opens, it will again be a shxxshow just like last time, but presumably, a greater number of individuals will be successful in buying a house.