Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
In the meantime, most of the other Crystal worlds have plenty of apartments available. Players desperate for an apartment can choose one of them for a home world while using world visit to be part of the Balmung and Mateus player-generated content communities. I know a lot of players who spend relatively little time on their home worlds because they're doing things with friends on other worlds. World visit is only inconvenient if you're frequently checking your retainers. Otherwise, it's really no different from doing things on your home world.
You're forgetting the reason why apartments are filled on Balmung/Mateus. These servers are both roleplay servers. Players on these servers enjoy housing because it gives them the ability to host venues and create personalized spaces for their characters. Because housing is so difficult to obtain, most people instead opt to having apartments (or FC rooms, if available!). They're easy to buy, not as expensive as a full on house, have no activity requirements, and easy to maintain.

On top of this, roleplayers love alts. Many people have multiple characters they enjoy writing out. So the ability to have an apartment on each and every character? Each character having their own customized space that will never demolish? It's a great feature.

It's not as simple as "just move off server" when it comes to roleplayers. Roleplayers want to be where roleplay is. They don't want to have to world hop to go to RP events (venues on Balmung and Mateus typically get higher attendance because of this). They want to stay centralized in their RP communities/fcs/link shells. While it's certainly possible for someone to do this, it's incredibly likely that they would be disconnecting themselves from the very reason they made a character on Balmung/Mateus

Plus all things aside, a player shouldn't need to fork over real life money for a server transfer to access apartments. Of course, it's something they can consider! But it really comes down to a failure of our current system in that people are having to pull maneuvers to even access this type of content.