SE need to stop this!

[NekoMataMata]

Probably going to have an unpopular opinion but personally I can't blame people for doing this if the wards are sitting empty for months on end. I noticed the OP is from Raiden so I looked at Paissa Housing and there are still 3k houses up for grabs and Raiden has been here for how many months now?

If people don't move/join the server and buy houses then others will take them up rather than let them sit there because there are literally thousands left (a.k.a no shortage on houses for the population of the server). The same will probably happen on Dynamis and any other new DCs/servers that pop in. The "finite commodity" argument only really works for servers where housing is extremely limited because there is too much population (like Balmung for example).

If the population isn't there and someone wants to grab an extra house thats been sitting unclaimed for months, cool. I don't really see a problem with that, nor do I think theyre robbing anyone of a house with how many there are available. Anyone else who really wanted a house could do the exact same.

You say that but when when the next expansion releases and there's a new population boom, suddenly housing becomes a problem again.

If we're going to lay out any rules here, let's at least be consistent about them.

[LianaThorne]

You say that but when when the next expansion releases and there's a new population boom, suddenly housing becomes a problem again.

If we're going to lay out any rules here, let's at least be consistent about them.

There are still 4 more servers incoming on the NA side of things which will bring in another load of houses on top of the ward expansions coming soon across all servers. Aren't JP and EU supposed to get new servers too? (My memory is a bit rusty on where we are exactly with the full server expansions they had planned.)

My view still stands though on if people don't want to move to where houses are readily available and want to punish those that did move and are taking plots that are sitting abandoned (especially in the case of Materia), that's a them problem.

Can wait, continue to be mad and post threads like this and hope for a change or do something that's actually possible now and go get a house on a server where there aren't enough people to buy them. If loyalty to an FC or being afraid to be far from friends is holding you back (especially if cross-DC is a thing in your region) consider how much you actually need/want a house.

As far as things stand now, they did what they could to prevent it and even with more restrictions put in place (# of active members, taxes, etc.) they can still easily be circumvented. Instanced housing would be the only legitimate solution but it's pretty obvious by now that they don't have an interest in pushing that out to people aside from Island Sanctuary.

[Yodada]

There are still 4 more servers incoming on the NA side of things which will bring in another load of houses on top of the ward expansions coming soon across all servers. Aren't JP and EU supposed to get new servers too? (My memory is a bit rusty on where we are exactly with the full server expansions they had planned.)

My view still stands though on if people don't want to move to where houses are readily available and want to punish those that did move and are taking plots that are sitting abandoned (especially in the case of Materia), that's a them problem.

Can wait, continue to be mad and post threads like this and hope for a change or do something that's actually possible now and go get a house on a server where there aren't enough people to buy them. If loyalty to an FC or being afraid to be far from friends is holding you back (especially if cross-DC is a thing in your region) consider how much you actually need/want a house.

Its planned for EU to add a whole new DC. If they are going the same route with 8 worlds on it we're looking into at least 72.000 new houses (incl. the 6 new wards with 6.3 / excl. any potential new districts) from 2023 onwards. Even if the supply will be met some day we will see the usual complains didnt got a Med or Large, didnt got the district i wanted blah blah blah.