Housing Market Demand Leading to Health Concerns

[Kenky]

Someone doesn't understand game theory.

If you incentive a certain behavior, people will do it. And Square has strongly incentivized long camping sessions.

Not Square's first misstep in this direction either. I've been led to understand their last MMO had people camping and fighting boss monster spawns for so long that people passed out at their computers and it made the news previously.

And how are they giving you incentives to camp long hours in a video game, exactly?

You don't get anything "unique" from housing (Personal housing, at least. FC housing has the workshop, so I'll give you that point.)

All you really get is a trophy to gloat about to the non-existant masses because nobody goes to housing wards outside of visiting their own house, or trying to buy one. Other than those two, it's a ghost town. There isn't really a whole benefit to having one if it's personal housing, outside of said trophy.

Anything else people may clamor for (outside of cross-breeding plants) can be done in an apartment and people need to suck up their pride and buy one. Better to have an Apartment than whine that there's no housing, even when there is on a technical point.