Stop complaining. You wanted this.

[AlzabetSmallberries]

Course they made it mostly FC housing for a reason.

It'll sell.

Once the, what, 9 days, are past every single one of them will be full on Hyperion. Maybe even all of Primal.

The good news is, 90% of those FC's will be leaving a house somewhere else, and you'll be able to start a lotto on THAT.

So think of the 70% FC occupion in Ishgard as just being delayed by 2 weeks.

Don't see it?

Walk through with me.

If it had been all private housing, then the larges MIGHT be people moving from other larges, or from small/medium.
The Mediums might be people moving from other mediums or smalls.
The smalls though are not likely to be people moving from other smalls, that are likely to be mostly new housing.

So maybe 100 other plots would open up elsewhere in the world if it was all private.

Instead 30% will be private, but 50% will cause openings ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.
They've effectively added a new ward to every single other housing location in the game.

except every future private home relocation from wards 1 through 18 in every single housing zone, effectively permanently
removes a private home off the board, as they will turn into an FC only lot once vacated. This means moving forward the number of private residences will continue to drop, significantly, and FC lots will continue to increase.

If you look at the current allotment across all the older housing zones, private houses far outnumber FC houses, despite the fact that FC's always had a substantial advantage in the old "click to win" system as they could have several people clicking on a placard at the same time vs 1 per private residence. Every house I ever clicked on there was maybe 1-2 groups for an FC (usually bots TBH) and at least a dozen people trying to get a private. The reason that private houses far outnumber FC currently, is because the demand is far higher for private. It makes no sense to split housing 75% in favor of FC's - Squeenix went backwards on lottery allotment IMO.

[Nepentha]

except every private home relocation from wards 1 through 18 now remove a private home off the board entirely, as they will turn into an FC only lot. this means moving forward the number of private residences will continue to drop, significantly,
and FC lots will continue to increase.

They'll reassess the wards by then, and open up more of them to personal housing. This isn't unlike the time they released new wards and made them FC only for a time. Eventually they unlocked it so that anything left could be taken up as a personal house. Just this time rather than make everything FC only, they roped off a few wards to be personal only.

So no, it won't remain like this forever. Wards 1-18 are FC only for now, not forever.