Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
Either way, someone owning THAT many houses kinda shows just how broken the system is - and I'm fairly certain that's not the only person that has an absurd number of houses. Stuff like this is why we can't have nice things.
Nobody is going to say the system is flawless and I doubt many would even argue that its not broken but the issue of him owning a ward by himself is separate from people being grandfathered in. He bought almost all of those after the buying restriction was put in place and he's done it through numerous FCs named the same across multiple separate accounts. While what he's done could be considered poor taste, he's not actually broken any rules. Furthermore, not only is this not a loophole, its something SE specifically enabled.

As for grandfathering, you should never be a proponent of having SE take something away from players that they've earned. Thats something that will get messy fast and its a pandora's box that should never be opened. Not only that, but taking away someone elses house doesn't fix the issue. Sure it will let a few dozen buy a house...out of several thousand that still don't have one. Instead of taking away from other players, how about you post ideas for expanding housing in a way that actually fixes the issue?