Quote Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra View Post
They had the opportunity this go around to limit housing to one private and one FC per account period. Honestly I wouldn't have been surprised had they gone that route but they didn't. They are allowing those of us who play alts on multiple data centers and servers to buy housing still. Materia and Dynamis have tons of homes available. 4 more servers coming to Dynamis in the not too distant future will be another wave of thousands of homes not counting the completely new data center with 8 servers coming to the EU.

I was frankly surprised and pleased to see them add 6 new wards in all housing areas on current servers and I wouldn't be surprised to see them do that again when more of their servers come online. The overall direction however is for the team to try and lessen the impact of over populated servers and try and even out populations across the new DC's and we are beginning to see that with the implementation of many more congested servers.
One Private+FC per account per world honestly isn't too unreasonable. Per account in general might be a tad too much. You might have a character in EU and one on NA due to different friendship groups, and I don't see why you shouldn't be able to join an FC on each of those unless said FC didn't have a house...
But even in order to do this, they would need to make it so alts on the same world share the same access, meaning if you have a house on one character, any other characters on that world also have ownership or even just tenancy rights. As well as all characters on a given world also automatically joining the same FC. This would unfortunately screw those over who use multiple alts to live multiple lives and hang out with different people, but that seems shady and being all-in on one FC would surely help community cohesion anyway.