Quote Originally Posted by Zebraoracle View Post
It literally is different - someone smart can have a dumb idea, that doesn't mean they're dumb. I think the idea of data center transferring, especially to a foreign DC, is absolutely unhinged, and you're right, it IS an option. It's a horrible option born out of this terrible situation that Square has caused to happen. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it, cuz like you said in the part of the post I didn't quote, until Square decides to nut up, the situation is not going to be fixed but just have a bunch of bandaids applied to it. Until then, people have to either choose to not engage with housing, or keep trying (through whatever means they deem appropriate) and hope they eventually get lucky.

And sure, people aren't strictly entitled to housing just for paying a sub, surely you can understand how frustrating it is for 1. the game to constantly throw free housing items at you, and 2. housing being one of the main draws of the game and only a handful of people actually get to participate in it.
It was always meant to be a limited item that people could aspire to attain with the market fluctuating as people lost theirs due to demos or moved to another ward. Plots were always supposed to open, but since people are greedy and were able to hoard houses because they didn't impose limits early on and the dev's need to capitulate and try to give everything to everyone through ever increasing ward capacities, they're left bailing water out of a sinking ship. It also didn't help that the population grew to what it is. It took me over 5 years just to be able to look in the direction of a house (mostly because when I started houses weren't even a thing) but even after they were it still took a good while. If I hadn't of gotten one it wouldn't have been a big deal. There's lots of things in the game I'll never get and I'm fine with that, though I agree it's dumb they keep using housing items as event rewards knowing housing is a point of contention