Quote Originally Posted by EaMett View Post
This is simply incorrect. Just outright so.
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Your problem is you're assuming that every player wants a house and that SE believes the same thing.

You're wrong. There's a large segment of the player population with no interest in owning house. SE understands that even if you don't. They've been adding housing as the available housing across worlds disappears, not to keep housing at a certain percentage of the player base to force housing PvP.

Pull numbers out of the air all you want but the real story in the number of houses that have been available at times, not the number of total houses versus total players.

If housing was intended to be PvP, there would never have been times the majority of worlds had houses available not just days but months.

Players on JP worlds (outside of Tonberry and a couple of the legacy worlds) never had problems getting a house once the wards were expanded to 12 until this expansion.

Players on NA and EU worlds had no problem getting houses the latter half of HW or in 2018 as long as they weren't on one of the congested worlds. Variety of what was available may not have been great at the end of HW but there was still no problem getting a house if you wanted one. That's how I got my first house. No PvP. No having to buy from a flipper.

There were hundreds of houses available on some NA and EU worlds during 2018 and dozens available on most of the rest. They didn't disappear until other MMOs died or had serious content issues at the start of 2019. Explain why that would be in your PvP housing theory.

I'm guessing you're one of those who only value housing if it's something others can't have which is why you're pushing your PvP theory.

Most players aren't like that, fortunately, and neither is SE.