Quote Originally Posted by Berkilak View Post
Were there any special conditions applied for that release? Or was it just a free-for-all?
Shirogane release was a free for all. At that time, there was no limit on the number of houses a player could own on a single account, FCs only needed 1 member to purchase a plot and the purchase timer didn't exist. House flippers showed up en masse to buy up everything they could because there was nothing to hinder their ability to resell to other players. Most NA worlds saw everything sold within a couple of hours of the servers coming online.

It was in 4.2 that SE started adding in the restrictions that made it more difficult, though not impossible, for players to resell houses and began to implement personal purchase moratoriums as new wards were released.