Link to the other thread so people can understand the actual actual truth about why housing was DOA.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...to-Tell-It.%29

And the relevant quote that nailed the coffin on this case.
Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
Please understand that while we will be adding servers and expanding housing areas as soon as we can, it is simply physically impossible for us to accomplish this easily, in a matter of one or two weeks.
I don't want to discourage SE from being honest in the future about their process by calling out Yoshi-P, but it is much healthier to be up-front about what the problem is than to hide the problem from us. We probably could have figured it out anyway, given the server instability as it is.