Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
Whether or not something has broken the rules is irrelevant when there's not only a clear shortage of housing on many servers but equally a desire on the part of SE to reduce the people that own several houses. There's no universe where a single player should have multiple houses, including those that were grandfathered in because they were lucky enough, or rich enough to own several houses across multiple characters/accounts.

Expanding on the apartment system is not a half-bad idea. If they can introduce a miniature garden; a community garden of sorts where each player with an apartment has access to such a feature and multiple-sized apartments then it'd work out perfectly.
I don't think it's irrelevant when SE grandfathered people in from the start. If they were going to take houses away they should have done it when they implemented the changes. They didn't and I think it would be bad business if they did it this late in the game. I get people are upset there isn't enough housing and I wholeheartedly agree. But the changes that need to be made is SE fixing crap so they can actually offer unlimited actual houses (again either in wards and/or instanced housing).

I know there are a couple people who own whole wards and yes, I agree that shouldn't be a thing. But those people are very few and even if they lost all their houses there STILL wouldn't be enough housing for everyone who wants one and doesn't have one. New people are starting this game every day and a lot are staying. There is no way that everyone who wants a house will have one unless SE actually fixes it so there is unlimited housing available. I had held out hopes that SE was actually going to make Ishgard housing instanced - like go to a plot and choose that spot for your instanced housing - but either they didn't think of that, didn't like that idea or can't implement that idea.

And as Awha stated, there are people who would just get more accounts and transfer fc houses to those accounts. Pretty sure that's already a thing for some of the people who own whole wards (one in particular who buys fcs to own the houses could only have 8 on one account on a server and he/she owns pretty much an entire ward - I for the life of me can't remember which sever it is but they post here on the forums from time to time to flaunt it).