Quote Originally Posted by HadesNight View Post
I genuinely don't get the logic behind why FCs are more deserving than players with housing.
I can't speak for Beckett, but when I responded to him, I assumed what he meant was that personal and FC housing should have had different systems, and not the same ward system. Not that FC housing was more 'deserving' of houses, but that personal housing should be different from FC housing.

When the wards were introduced, they were FC housing only, and they filled up slowly (probably because players didn't have as much gil as most do now). We were told that personal housing would be different from FC housing, and then they changed their minds and decided to put personal housing in the wards (probably thinking that since the wards were so empty it wouldn't be an issue). This is the part that is the mistake, because the wards are limited and we run into this issue we have now of supply not meeting demand. If personal housing had been a separate, instanced system in the beginning, we wouldn't have this problem.

Don't get me wrong, I love housing in this game. There's a lot to admire about the system, for sure. But they did make mistakes - in this case a very big mistake - and it doesn't help anyone to try and pretend that this isn't the case.