This new SYSTEM DOESN'T Work

[Avoidy]

Supply was always going to be the issue longterm, but it became a problem much quicker than expected due to SE's mishandled FC:Individual ward ratio. They seriously dragged their feet on opening more wards to individual sale as well, despite every individual buyer begging them to do it for months, and by the time they opened it up it was too late. Now there's no demolition either, so homes only come available when someone straight up annihilates their account, moves to another world, or (why?) opts to demolish their own place.

Really love Square's promise in like early 2022 to monitor housing closely and adjust wards on a case by case basis, and then sitting here in almost 2023 on Balmung and watching us get the same number of wards as some empty world on Materia. "Six for everyone! Woohoo!" Would be cool as hell if underpopulated worlds had their housing resources redirected to worlds that need the help, but idk how they could even make that happen.

[DPZ2]

Really love Square's promise in like early 2022 to monitor housing closely and adjust wards on a case by case basis...

Would you be so kind as to provide a link to the Japanese text (or translated text) with that promise?

[Avoidy]

Would you be so kind as to provide a link to the Japanese text (or translated text) with that promise?

Late as hell but it was mentioned in the Live Letter where they talked in depth about how the new housing system would work just before it was released. I actually don't know how to begin finding those (maybe on their youtube? idk), so I tried to be as specific as possible in case you're curious enough to go searching, but they straight up said that they'd monitor the ward situations as they played out to deal with the issue of some worlds filling faster than others, and of fc/individual wards filling at separate rates. Full disclaimer though, my translation was a reddit guy doing it live for free because square's too cheap to pay an official in house translator, so here we are once again dealing with that issue when we have to go back and check square's promises after the fact. If there's a place on SE's youtube where live letters are kept, it'd probably be uploaded a couple of weeks before the new lotto system was implemented.

Heck, if you were here for the launch of it then you'll remember a lot of people who wouldn't make solo FCs because they trusted Square to do the thing they said they'd do and monitor the ward situations in real time.