Quote Originally Posted by Ramesses View Post
This doesn't compare to the two players on Mateus server who bought up 28 out of the 30 available plots in an entire ward (Source)

This happened in 2017 or 2018-- and back then, the rage unleashed from the FFXIV community on the forums (and on both reddit and discord) was palatable. And absolutely justified-- especially when there were thousands of players who couldn't purchase even a small sized house.

it was then I finally concluded that the entire housing system was horribly broken.
When those two players bought out that ward, Mateus was a dead world. There were available plots all over the place. That's why it had been so easy for them to get almost a full ward to themselves. On any world that had an active housing community, they would have had to spread those houses out over multiple wards.

The rage was coming from players who didn't even have characters on Mateus and weren't willing to transfer there to get a house.

Mateus players didn't start getting upset about it until later, after Mateus was adopted by the RP community as an unofficial second home when Balmung got stuck on Congested status and housing on all worlds had started filling up because of Stormblood launch..

It was not those two players at fault for others not being able to get a house. They did nothing wrong - multiple personal house ownership per account was allowed at the time. They had intentionally transferred to a dead world to buy those houses because it wasn't preventing anyone else on that world from getting a house and there had still been plenty of available plots for other players to buy at the time.

It was SE at fault but as usual, players directed their anger at the wrong place..