I don't know what Balmung that person was looking at because there are not 28 open personal plots. Every single house had 200+ bids on them for personal housing.

Every apartment is gone.

People play on Balmung because there's a huge population of RP'ers there, and a decent amount of statics for raiding. New people come to Balmung because they want to play with their friends who are already established there. We lose our apartments if we move, we lose our houses if we move, we lose our FCs if we move: None of it transfers over - so why would we ever leave? The only people who don't want instanced housing are those who want to feel special because they clicked a placard the fastest, or got lucky on a lotto. Housing shouldn't be a status symbol of luck: It should be accessible to EVERYONE, equally. Just like in real life. You have to practically be rich with a perfect credit score to get a mortgage in America: I'm sick of feeling like housing is inaccessible in the game too.