Quote Originally Posted by Dreadlockrasta View Post
They did this because their Walmart servers couldn't handle every FC in the game getting a house. End of story.
This is the truth.

Yoshi offered a lot of excuses but in the end, housing is instanced. There are only so many servers they could stand up committed to housing - if everyone bought a house then it would overwhelm their infrastructure. So he came up with this crazy plan where no one will be able to buy a house until SE has time to put up more servers. Well its working. No one is buying. I really don't think he realized the extent of the economy side-effects this would create. I think he had his back up against the wall - he had promised housing with 2.1 and it wasn't ready. But he had to release it so the best he could come up with was to release it in such a way that no one (or very few) would buy, giving him time. Then he spouted some blah nonsense about gil inequality and RMT.

The most ironic thing to me was that he promised furniture would re-invigorate the economy and give people something new to make. LOL. If there are no houses, no one is going to buy furniture. So idiotic. This really makes me think in the end he had no choice -- he had planned to make housing more accessible to begin with but something happened that caused them to have to delay.