Player Purchase Priorty

[Divinemights]

If you haven’t notice, entire “housing crisis” is just active NA minority making loud noise on the forum
This is not a Worldwide problem

[ItMe]

One thing to take into consideration is that NA's smaller servers are still comprable to the largest Japanese one (Tonberry).

[ItMe]

In size I mean.
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[Jojoya]

If you haven’t notice, entire “housing crisis” is just active NA minority making loud noise on the forum
This is not a Worldwide problem

And you come to this conclusion based on your personal visits to what worlds since the new wards were added?

Here's a quick trip I'm making to Goblet on all the JP and EU worlds tonight since Goblet is the district players go to when they can't get a house elsewhere.

Anima - none
Asura - none
Belias - none
Chocobo - none
Hades - none
Ixion - one small (hasn't devalued yet)
Mandragora - none
Masamune - one small (devalued once)
Pandaemonium - none
Shinryu - one small (hasn't devalued yet)
Titan - one small (hasn't devalued yet)

Alexander - one small (devalued once)
Bahamut - none
Durandal - none
Fenrir - none
Ifrit - none
Ridill - none
Tiamat - over 100 smalls
Ultima - none
Valefor - none
Yojimbo - none
Zeromus - one small (hasn't devalued yet)

Aegis - over 100 smalls
Atomos - 81 smalls
Carbuncle - none
Garuda - none
Gungnir - none
Kujata - 30 smalls
Ramuh - 85 smalls
Tonberry - none
Typhon - 73 smalls
Unicorn - one small (devalued once)

Lich - one small (hasn't devalued yet)
Odin - one small (hasn't devalued yet)
Phoenix - none
Shiva - none
Twintania - over 100 smalls
Zodiark - one small (hasn't devalued yet)

Cerberus - none
Louisoix - one medium (good luck!) and 67 smalls
Moogle - none
Omega - none
Ragnarok - none
Spriggan - one medium (good luck!) and over 100 smalls

So that's 26 out of 32 JP worlds and 9 out of 12 EU worlds that don't have houses available for their players ready to buy right now. The only way for players on those worlds to get a house is to pay US$18 (or whatever they're charged in their local currency) to pay for a world transfer to one of the few worlds with houses available.

You don't think that's a problem?

There are 44 servers for the entire game.

You mean there are 68 servers for the entire game (32 JP, 24 NA, 12 EU). That's 391,680 houses total.

The game doesn't have 20 million active players. That's accounts registered since the game was launched, most of which aren't active. We know that the game has over 1 million active players (was announced at one of the recent live letters), though how much over that number isn't clearly known (has been estimated at 1.2-1.5 million).

Even if only half the active players want to own a house, we're still short several hundred thousand.

However, I think the math does the talking related to duration of how long this has been going on.

Your math doesn't do anything when it's based on a bunch of false assumptions and doesn't account for other relevant information like servers do cost money to maintain so SE doesn't want to have servers running that are effectively unused.

[Almagnus1]

If you haven’t notice, entire “housing crisis” is just active NA minority making loud noise on the forum
This is not a Worldwide problem

Maybe it's because there's more people/server in NA than there are in the other two regions?