Quote Originally Posted by Sotaris View Post
that article is almost 5 years old and not really relevant in 2021.

When that couple bought the houses no one bought house on Mateus. They were up for sale for months on end.
It's very relevant to why that specific pair of players has most of a ward to themselves. They acquired those plots fairly under the game rules at the time.

A lot of new players don't realize that before patch 4.2 in January 2018, there were no restrictions on how many houses a single player could own (though there was still the passive 1 personal, 1 FC house per character limit). Players that had acquired multiple houses prior to the rules change were allowed to keep them since they had done nothing wrong at the time they were acquired. Even now, the rules only state how many houses per world a single account can have (still not per player).

If I wanted to put in the effort, I could have 80 houses by having a character on each of 40 different worlds and having a personal house and FC house for each character. I would be doing nothing wrong by the rules of the game even if that means there are 79 other players who won't be able to get a house.

SE really needs to pull its head out of the sand about how bad the ward system is when it comes to serving the needs of players. An instanced system would serve the entire player base and allow anyone who wants to own multiple houses to do it without impacting another player's ability to get a house.