If, after implementing this, they scare 75% of the MIA housing owners into resubbing and as a result only reclaim a fraction of the land that they'd hoped, they may yet add additional wards. But it makes much more sense to recycle first.

I managed to grab my personal house via a miracle when the last FC member transferred to another server without bothering to selling the house first or something like that; all I know is a plot opened up in Goblet and I rushed there fully expecting to see a transaction in process, but there wasn't one. I hope now that others on Lamia server who have had an active sub for over two straight years like me can have the option to buy into a FC or personal house, too.