Housing Ownership Restrictions

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Are you suggesting [My FC, who tried very hard to get to Shirogane housing] should be compensated for their efforts?

I'm not suggesting anything. I'm saying quite clearly that no one who had success with their efforts should have the rewards of that success removed. The people who got houses before your FC did deserve to keep those houses. Your FC deserves another chance at more houses. Thus, new wards. And ta-da, we are back at the point that: the solution is new wards.

Besides, the house itself [That I want taken away from you so I can have it instead] is not a reward. You complete no quests to get it, you just walk over to the placard and pay for it. In other words, it's an item. Yes, you can do a lot with it, but at the end of the day, it's no different to your character than your chocobo.

You've directly contradicted yourself with this statement. Your FC wants "compensation for their efforts" in the form of a house. Yet a house is not "a reward?" Without looking up the definition of "reward" for you, I can confidently say that if you receive something fun as a result of you committing time, effort, and resources: that something is a reward.

So [if we both agree that owners of multiple personal houses are not causing this problem] then please explain why it's acceptable to have more than one personal house per service account. And no, "because they were grandfathered in" is not a valid reason here.

As I originally said, and as you agreed with: the people who own alt houses are not causing this problem. Why is it acceptable? Because it is perfectly within the game rules for those alts to own houses, and because they aren't hurting anyone. You've already agreed with me on this point. Let's move on, please.

So... why not [Punish a couple hundred owners of alt-houses in order to] increase the number of players able to participate [by a couple hundred, of the 20,000+ who are waiting]?

Again, the answer to the question you ask was in my post. You want to punish a couple hundred players who are loyal to ff14 and very invested in the game, so that this problem gets 1% to 3% better. That is no solution at all, and actively hurts current players that SE values. Meanwhile, 6 new wards would reduce the problem by closer to 10% and hurt absolutely no one. It's objectively a better solution.

The only complete solutions that will 100% fix the problem are: 80 new wards or instanced housing for all. SE has done the math and determined that killing .5% of players interest in the game is not the solution to housing 1% of the homeless.