Disappointed by last housing rush

[Jojoya]

Is it great that up to 720 people get to skip the camp? Of course.

Except many of those players never got to skip the camp. They already went through it at the point they first got a house. They might have even done it multiple times, losing out on their initial attempts, finally getting a house but not at a location they actually wanted.

Now they were given the opportunity to relocate to a location they do want without camping again. There's nothing wrong with that since it doesn't change the net available supply.

New wards are the fix, and new players deserve a share, but not a monopoly.

Except they aren't a fix. They're another band-aid trying to keep a broken system functioning a little longer while we lack a working system.

Of course, there will be people claiming that they have a house and they are not interest in relocation, but these people lack of credibility.

Why do I lack credibility? I have the plot and location I want (Mist 60). There is no plot currently in the game I want over the one I already have. If I wanted to relocate, I easily could have done it during the 5.1 ward additions. I've got no interest in moving to Ishgard once that housing opens.

Can I guarantee that won't change in the future? No, because I don't know what new housing will get added in the future. If there is a new housing district added and I like how it looks, I might change my mind at that point. But for now, I've got zero reason to relocate because there isn't another plot I'd rather own.

I can't think of anyone I know that isn't honest about their desire to relocate if they get the opportunity. They've got no reason to hide it.

You probably should be more careful about going around accusing people of lying when you know next to nothing about their personal interests and desires.

You can't crossbreed, which is required for most stuff you want to grow (Thavnarian Onions among many other things). But you already knew that with your sarcastic tone.

And most players have no interest in growing things, let alone going through cross-breeding the seeds. '

A house may be needed by the tiny percentage of players who want to do it but it's irrelevant for the majority. Most of those tiny percentage of players could get access if they talked to their friends who have a house but aren't doing their own gardening or by checking with their FC if their FC has a house. That's how I was gardening before I was able to buy my house - I used the garden at a friend's house because his interest in gardening only goes as far as growing the fruits to change his chocobo's color when he feels like doing that. Now I've got my own house, his garden goes empty 50 weeks a year.

How was that told to me. "Dog eat dog" and it's sad this community has that mindset.

That's a human thing. Don't act like it only happens in this community. It happens everywhere.

This is one of those instances where a community doesn't really benefit from people choosing to "do the right thing" because doing the right thing doesn't solve the problem for the community. Take away all houses in excess of one from every service account and you're still not going to have nearly enough houses for every player to own a house. We're talking a total 391k houses worldwide for an active player population in excess of 1.2 million. Even if 50% of all houses were owned by players with multiple houses (regardless of personal/FC/other world allowances), we get maybe 100k houses made available to serve the 800k players that don't have one.

Certainly it would be nice if everyone was willing to do the right thing and at least that additional 100k were able to get a house.

What are you going to tell the 700k+ players that still can't get a house?

Here we have a GM response to a ward owner who reported themselves to the GM for owning multiple FC houses:

https://imgur.com/BQRSzbV

Why does this keep getting thrown around as proof it's okay for a single service account to own 8 FC houses on the same world.

The GM states the player needs to refer to the Lodestone update. The Lodestone update clearly states "Players may only own one private and one free company estate per World on any given service account."

Additional questions are met with "I can't offer any additional information".