Quote Originally Posted by Yodada View Post
And then what? Freeing maybe 40-50 Houses per Server for a demand which is likely higher then several thousands? Yeah, this will help to get everyone a house. Jeez I swear to god people need to use at least one braincell just for the sake of their own sanity. Nothing will help except an dramatic increase in additional wards. Nothing. Not getting rid of "Hoarders", "Shell-FCs" etc. Only new Servers will help to lower the pressure on the housing issue.
This is a good point. I get wanting to punish those who gamed the system and got grandfathered into multiple houses, but putting in the effort to fix that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the demand. Basically, it'd be a PR move that would make us feel good and not much else.

The issue is that given they put all this effort into a lottery system signals that developing a 1 to 1 instance housing system would take too long to show results to work, outside of a side project that won't really get in the way of patch release content.

Hah, given this sad state of affairs, perhaps some PR would be nice, but that feeling of satisfaction wouldn't last long.