Adding Ishgard housing will NOT fix housing

[Illy_Peridot]

It would be amazing if they could set it up so a new ward could be dynamically added whenever one fills up on a server, but the devs have already stated that it's not possible with the current codebase for housing

More houses may mean more private openers, but it also means more houses that can be exploited. If you look at the images linked in my post you see that there are a dedicated group of people buying up lots in order to sell them for real money or gil. One of the people to reply to this thread even has 48 houses for just themselves. Adding more housing just gives these people more proprieties they can snag to take advantage of. Sure, some lucky buyers will probably grab a house when we get Ishgard plots, but how many will take advantage?

I'd rather there is a system that doesn't allow anyone to take advantage.

As much as I agree with you, consider it this way: especially one person in this thread spends just under $100/month retaining these virtual properties. Actual real-world money. Like honestly, who's the person being taken advantage of here? The devs are rolling in profit off these people with multiple service accounts.