Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
Their only mistake is to open house function to personal and that is it.
The other attempts just they are trying to deal with player base’s sudden change of mood.
A lot mistakes were made because they “listen” to playerbase, other mistake are release of Hrothgar and Viera, etc.
If they hadn't opened the mostly empty wards to personal purchase, things would have gone the way they already have - players creating shells FCs for the purpose of gaining access to a house and we would have ended up with 80% personal houses coated by a very thin veneer of FC.

The mistake was not planning for personal housing in the first place and then adding it in as an afterthought. All they needed to do was look to the other games with housing to see what players really want. Free companies (guilds/clans/fellowships/whatever the game calls their organized social groups) of course want a place for their members to be able to meet but always the demand for personal housing is much higher. It's a RPG - players appreciate their characters having a place to call home especially when most of the game play has them wandering around like vagabonds.