Quote Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda View Post
Actually It was primarily because of unused assets. When they were FC only most of the wards on my world were sparsely populated. However it wasn't just the FC only requirement that caused it. Back then the prices were such that FC's often struggled to buy anything larger than a small plot.

Fast forward to now with gil inflation because the game generates far more gil than it takes out of circulation via fees and NPC transactions, Individual players can easily afford the price of a home themselves. Many of these players created shell FC's because they want to try using airship/submarine voyages and company workshop crafts for their own personal profit and spammed all over this forum for years that their "FC" needs a house.

It is possible when they made the decision for the ward split that they simply looked at the overall number of FC's on each world and didn't filter to only show ones that met requirements to actually buy a plot. Or they did it intentionally to try and get these tiny shell/private FC's to dissolve and try to get ppl to actually make friends...
Houses used to cost like 4x as much where a large house on certain servers was 200,000,000 gil. That with the lower rate of gil generation made it that housing was very rare.