"Free Company Houses" should not exist, they only encourage "personal/solo FC's"

[Padudu]

The system is incredibly flawed. Agreed
People are perfectly entitled to want to be able to use it, to want it to function better than it does.

Unfortunately magic isn't real and no amount of screaming to JUST DO IT NO EXCUSES will actually get it done.
If they could do it, they would have done it.
None of you have ever worked a service job and it shows.

lol, I literally work a service job. Sometimes two during the summer! I love my customers too! But when my company/employees fail on some things, I don't make excuses. I don't tell customers, "Sorry you've experienced this problem, but that's just the way it is, deal with it".

SE is, quite literally, a multimillion dollar company, so how many years do you want them to ride out the "we can't handle it, sorry fam." If they can't, maybe don't implement it to begin with. We pay for a service, so like.. we can reasonably be upset about some things. Sure, people can word things nicer, but then you have the whole healer fiasco which went as: "Hey, as a healer, things are easy, can you make it difficult and engaging for us too?" and they get hit with: "You want engaging content, go play ultimate". Is that good customer service to you? So why then, is it acceptable for SE to constantly handwave the housing issue with "servers can't handle it". We have apartments, we have instanced content, among other implementations, that are incoming. Its not like this is a brand new issue either.

Well if you are new and part of an FC atm you have and have had a prio on wards now and previously. Any FC who has wanted a house realistically should have had one on all but the most bursting of servers. So the question then would be why the salt over personal? Esp atm when they are relegated to a few wards.

But even that feels like nit picking, I rather we can all just have a house that we can upgrade into larger sizes and with a more realistic item limit for large plots because 400 is a joke. Housing could be such a huge draw for this game if they spent the time on it, lets yoink some of those sims players over here...

With a push for this game being more solo, it doesn't surprise me that people want personals more than FC housing tbh. Especially if:
1) You're in a FC already, but the lead/officers don't let you decorate/garden/airship/blahblah
2) You don't want to join a FC solely for the house (I join mine for social reasons, for example, the house is the bonus).

So that leads you either with - personal, or making a FC suited for you and maybe a small group of friends, which in the end.. yeah, boils down to "you shouldn't have to". But yeah I agree upgrades would be good, the 400 item limit gets eaten up quick. Ideally, I just want a way to remove the bottom/columns and just making it plain or customizable. I mean part of that item limit gets eaten up by people trying to cover it up lol

it could literally be an 8bit tamagotchi screen and fill those parameters is what im saying. it could literally be lords of verminion with a custom backdrop.

Lords of Verminion is an instance lol - also go relook at the live letter; it's doubtful it's be the 8bit tamagotchi screen. I know we like to yoga stretch here, but c'mon now.