How many lots will actually open up?

[Gyson]

Let's be real.. housing reclamation is not aimed at providing active players with more housing options - that is the absolute last thing Square Enix wants to happen. Nothing will discourage a potential re-subscriber more than finding out they lost their home.

Instead, the whole point is to "encourage" inactive players to become active, paying subscribers again. The developers are infinitely more interested in seeing an inactive player return to pay a month's subscription fee just to save their house, rather than providing an active player with an open plot of land. And if that inactive player's return rekindles their interest in the game and turns them into a paying subscriber for multiple months, then all the better for SE's business.

I will be surprised if more than 10 houses across a server free up, and even more surprised if said parcels end up in the hands of a non-home owner rather than existing home owners who just want to flip the property for gil. This whole "solution" is a huge joke.