Housing Ownership Restrictions

[Penthea]

whay do you know about JP server? there's 0 housing for a while here too, and when there is it's a war too, but people tend to not complaining because they know that's the way the game works and most new player work their way and buying apartment until there's an opening, they know housing don't come easy and a limited server space not a given things.

It should be noted that in Japanese culture complaining is often seen as stirring the pot, which they often consider to be inappropriate behaviour even when the complaint is justified. It is partially why so many aspects of their social culture are so rigid because not conforming to the norm can get you shunned. In the west we are far more open about our opinions and individuality, formality matters far less, and it's significantly more common to see people here make their complaints with drive and passion.

We've all heard the stories about how in the JP servers there can be a community blacklist in which they decide they won't play with someone anymore but would never say anything about it to their face. They just collectively decide to silently exclude certain people. Whereas in the west if a person ends up with a large number of people not wanting to play with them it is very rare for this to occur without a heated conversation between the two parties.

When Shirogane first launched it was a disaster, and I recall people saying things like "wow even the Japanese players are complaining". I would be willing to place a large bet that this is partially why SE quickly introduced new wards afterwards with new purchase restrictions in place. Even their main target audience was openly incredibly unhappy with the situation, and not something anyone could attribute to "oh it's just western players being western".

And this makes me keenly interested in seeing how the launch of Ishgard will go.