Announcement - housing for the new EU worlds

[Sankaritarina]

It's not the doom you think. After talking through some of this with posters in a General Discussion thread, the situation really isn't that bad. Consider the actual circumstances.

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Would it better for SE to push back the start of housing until when FCs created this week can participate? They could but it wouldn't necessarily be better. The main demand is still personal houses. SE is going to get players on those worlds a lot faster by making the personal wards available as soon as possible because that's where the real demand is.

The odds of most of those large plots disappearing in the first possible FC lottery cycle is pretty high, actually. Here is the number of FCs present on the new worlds BEFORE Home World Transfer opened:
Sagittarius: 253 FCs
Phantom: 342 FCs
Alpha: 310 FCs
Raiden: 283 FCs

A substantial amount of these FCs were created solely for the purpose of snatching up large and other desirable and ESPECIALLY valuable plots like LB 11/41 for example.
Re-selling plots is a fantastic return on investment, especially for those in RMT. Depending on the demand you can sell large plots in decent enough locations for 500m and more. And since there is no limit of money being traded to the new worlds, there really isn't ANY reason for those investing in the housing market to NOT snatch up as many plots as they can.
You can add a long list of venue-owners to that who have been stuck with medium plots and are finally getting the opportunity to get a large plot for their venue.

I am pretty confident in saying that probably at least half the large plots, including almost all of the desirable ones, will be gone before any FCs transferring over through Home World Transfer will have a chance to bid on them.

I desperately hope that SE is reconsidering either this schedule, or the 30-day rule for new FCs. The goal should be to have legitimate FCs getting a plot of their own instead of shuffling as many plots as possible into the hands of re-sellers and RM-Traders. Keep in mind that a lot of those in the housing market can ALSO participate in the second available lottery period to snatch up another plot on the same account by transferring over the already-won plots to a single account. There are people openly talking about trying to fill their main account with all 8 possible houses on any given new server.

So yes, this is dire.
Either this was simply an oversight or the people making the decision really didn't consider the implications of it.

[Jojoya]

The odds of most of those large plots disappearing in the first possible FC lottery cycle is pretty high, actually. Here is the number of FCs present on the new worlds BEFORE Home World Transfer opened:
Sagittarius: 253 FCs
Phantom: 342 FCs
Alpha: 310 FCs
Raiden: 283 FCs

You're operating off the assumption that every single one of those FCs was made for RMT, was made before July 12th and has 50 million+ gil at its disposal.

Certainly some of them will. I highly doubt it's a majority of them.

I agree that SE should reconsider in light of the home world transfer delay but I still don't feel there's need for doom and gloom in part because the delay happened.