New FC Guidelines for housing are fair, but disappointing. An unnecessary tale.

[Jojoya]

This, by FAR, should illustrate perfectly why the 75/25 split of FC/Personal was unnecessary and unwanted. The personal houses have several entries already everywhere you go. The FC houses are all but forgotten. A tale as old as time -- Housing gets designed for FCs and somewhere along the line, Square Enix decides to open the houses back up to players and the FCs get upset because players are suddenly allowed to own houses again.

Yoshi-P, if you're reading this, there are at least a couple threads about expanding apartment interiors -- one of them is mine. PLEASE do something with the apartments. They are woefully neglected.

It could well be warranted on some worlds.

SE's mistake was treating every world like it has the same needs and then applying the worst case scenario to them all. I might not have agreed with Materia players about using FCFS versus lottery, but I definitely feel for them right now considering they've been royally screwed over not just by the delayed access to housing but by the 75/25 split. A single world has more plots reserved for FCs than their entire data center has FCs while most of the players who gave up their old homes to help build the new community get cut out (unless of course they're giving up being in a FC for the sake of getting house - please look forward to it).

I had been considering possibly transferring to the new NA worlds when they get added this summer. Now, I doubt I will considering Materia's experience. While there are other parts of the game I enjoy very much, like crafting and hunts, housing is also important to me. I'm not going to bother if getting a personal house will be out of reach. I'm not going to give up what I already have for a vague promise that maybe I can get it again in some distant future or maybe not if SE would rather prioritize the solo players operating multiple shell FCs for workshops.

SE is shooting themselves in the foot with the way they're mishandling this. How many players are going to be eager to transfer their veteran characters to the new EU and NA worlds after watching what has happened to Materia? There's nothing to be gained by doing so. If they're going to end up spending all their time using data center transfer to hang out with their friends who don't transfer, there's no reason to world transfer in the first place. Might as well stay where they are.