Quote Originally Posted by Yshtola_Cat View Post
Where is my complaint? All I'm saying is that you people ask for all sorts of things without ever thinking about how it might affect other portions of the game. So you're right, my non-existing complaint is a non-issue given that I don't have a complaint to begin with. Sure, you're not advocating for their removal, but that's precisely the point you're failing to understand. I'm repeating myself, but you can't have a permanent system working alongside one that isn't when both are nearly identical in other aspects while also expecting the whole thing to just work without tossing a bone to the players who are tied to a subscription. What do you do with the partially empty wards when most personal houses would be traded for an apartment? How do you bonify houses to prevent a mass exodus?

I have 0 concerns about houses being demolished. If it came down to me, I'd nuke all personal housing due to its inferiority and its contribution to the problem since its introduction and hand over free apartments to whoever wants one. Provide generous incentives to Free Companies to either relocate or demolish their estate in order to shrink the amount of wards and call it a day.

You are delusional if you believe Square Enix will gladly accept to make the housing wards irrelevant in favor of apartments. Don't believe me? When was the last time apartments were upgraded?
I'm not delusional to think they will do anything because they won't do anything to fix housing. Housing and Apartments aren't a one or another situation. If apartments get upgraded, great, you can own one as well and still keep your house. I think you are overblowing how many people will be mad and torching the forums when they add a real option to the large portion of the playerbase who has no real ability to get a house because of SE's artificially imposed supply limitations. They created an issue years ago when they decided on wards and then continued to double down on them instead of accepting they are wrong and fixing the core issue. If your concern is permanency then get rid of demolitions with the addition of apartment expansions. Now players with houses can keep their house permanently and still have access to their new system. Do I think that is the right answer? No, I think that they need to announce many months in advance when they are going to resume demolitions as well as increase the timer from 45 days to maybe 6 months or a year. That way players that take a break can feel ok with that and players that legitimately quit will eventually lose the house.


This reminds me of all the blowback from people saying it wasn't fair that a whole bunch of players got their houses for free from the first lottery, their argument was that the players that won and got their house immediately didn't have to wait a month to get their house. Why do we need to give even more perks to players that have had access to a system that a whole lot haven't had if SE decides to finally give parity to everyone's subscription and allow everyone the ability to have access to the full housing system via apartments.