Worst housing system in the world

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It's off. Its been off for four months. Its going to be off for an unforeseeable amount of time; they haven't even announced when it *might* go back on. Probably not until certain world conflicts are figured out.

And even then its going to take another 40 days after it gets turned on to see houses come up. And even THEN its not enough to accommodate everyone, so go back to Yuzuyu's statement that there will be dozens, maybe even hundreds depending on the server, of entries on any house that does come up.

What is your personal reason for supporting the current system? Is it clout, being able to say you own a house? Does it make you feel like people envy you? Is it that it's "rare" so you wanted it, but if it stopped being "rare" or giving you perceived "status" you would not be interested in it anymore? This is the question I want to ask anyone who supports the system in the here-and-now. I want the deep down answer too, not "Oh my RP character..." thousands have RP characters. "Oh my venue..." there's a new person in FF every day wanting to start a venue. "I earned it by camping and clicking." So did many others, and the same people that failed at winning were there clicking with you, stewing in the frustration to end in disappointment.

I saw an interaction in my server's Limsa the other day where a player was bragging about a house and another player just kept saying 'okay.' "I have a house." Okay. "I had it decorated by so-and-so." Okay. When the player who owned it asked if the others wanted to come visit, "Okay" turned to "No" and I have never seen someone get so aggressive as fast as I saw the homeowning player get aggressive. People in this game no longer hear "I have a house" and go "Cool!" They hear "I have a house" and think about the months, year, years they have been trying and failing to get one and in doing so have realized that they don't really care about the home-owning "status symbol" anymore. Most of the people posting don't want a house for bragging rights, they want a house to further experience a part of the game that apartments and FC rooms only gave them a tiny taste of. They feel blocked from content for a game that they are paying their hard-earned dollars for and they are not wrong. On top of that, you don't even need to spend much time on this forum to realize that there is a divide growing between the house-owning vs houseless population, and its really starting to cause some serious contention in our communities.

If for absolutely NOTHING else than community synergy and removing one element that is causing a rift, wouldn't it be best to make sure everyone has a darn house?! I'm willing to bet that if everyone could, even if you left some surface wards attached as something to strive for with the rest being another form of housing, the majority of people "complaining" would become a tiny minority very, very fast.