Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
Where I will argue with you though is the erroneous mindset that the devs don't care. Coming up short to truly fix the issue does not mean they do not care. Their continued attempts to address the issue, and how prompt they were to inform the community via lodestone during the initial lottery crisis should speak otherwise.
I agree with your point there and I've moderated the tone a bit. I suppose my frustration is that while they were very open and communicative about the lotto bug, the lottery shouldn't be required in the first place. The devs have been responsive to a plethora of topics over the years, but they have never addressed the root issue of insufficient housing. Adding more wards with the 20 small, 7 medium and 3 large housing split also makes less and less sense as a maturing population accumulates more wealth in game and desires bigger plots. Toss in the population surge, and the 75/25 FC/Personal split and it is very easy for a player to feel that they are an afterthought for devs when they're pursuing personal housing.

It is possible that they're working on a solution. Yet, I'm also afraid that due to the vastly higher N/A population per server compared to the Japanese servers, the N/A housing crisis isn't even registering to them.