FC owning 12 plots

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Because SE's rules allowed for these items to be collected, and someone decided it would be fun to collect them. It's literally as simple as that.

Or rather SE didn't make the system airtight enough and people exploited a weak system to get more housing than intended.

SE can't go back and take rewards away.

Housing =/= rewards

All shell FCs should have their housing stripped full stop, and anyone saying otherwise is advocating for this malevolent display of greed is only advocating for this entire horrendous housing situation to continue.

That would destroy subscriber's faith in them.

Hardly, it'd be no different than seeing a bunch of idiots banned over RMT, so please don't delude yourself otherwise.

If they will delete houses, we need to be worried that they will remove feast rewards earned on alts, or ishgard titles earned on alts. You ground out 'Saint' on two characters? Sorry, that's no fair, you get to keep one and the 'leftover' goes to the next guy down the line. It wouldn't be fair to do THAT retroactively, and the same is true of housing. I have friends who would undoubtedly quit if they lost their alt's houses.

Again, housing =/= reward. Drop it with the FUD already... it shows your argument holds zero water because if that's all you've got to lean on, its naught more than an acknowledgement that the position is wholly immoral and an admission that it's an exploitation of the rule set.