Free login campaign for the whole of December! Yay!

[Gardes]

Four days including the day on which users first log in. This period ends on the fourth day at 11:59 p.m.

[Colorful]

Looks like housing isn't going to be freed up anytime soon.

[Savvy]

Looks like housing isn't going to freed up anytime soon.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Ouch.. ):

[Eul]

Looks like housing isn't going to freed up anytime soon.

[Colorful]

Going to need a much larger case to hold the incoming waves of salt.

[RyuRoots]

Ah yes, the requisite "this doesn't affect me so I will incorrectly think I'm clever" post.

[Eul]

Ah yes, the requisite "this doesn't affect me so I will incorrectly think I'm clever" post.

Doesn't matter, still playing for people who wait for demolish.

[Youkulm]

Looks like housing isn't going to be freed up anytime soon.

That was my exact thought when I saw it on the launcher.

[BreathlessTao]

@ Nekodar - Who cares how they do it, as long as they do something? This isn't a problem we should have to solve for them.

The housing shortage has been going on far too long. I'm sure I'm not the only person feeling angry about the fact that the Free-log-in Campaign looks likely to sabotage the one tiny measure they have taken to alleviate it so far.

Every word of this.
Even if this was a problem we should solve for them - take a better look around the forums and see how many suggestions have been made for how many issues (many of those have been persistent since pretty much the start), and then log in to the game so you can see how little of those has been applied. Threads keep appearing, suggestions are being repeated, over and over again even after all this time - for a reason: the issues are still present. So even if we should solve it, I have a feeling most of us are beyond the point to even try by now.
As for the anger and length of it... I've said this before, I'm gonna say it again: been wanting a house since 1.0, been paying my sub every month ever since the fees were introduced in 1.x, been saving up as much as I can since day 0 - meaning missing out on cool new minions and cool new glamours and cool new items in general all this time, and yet I still can't have a house. I'm sorry I'm not a 9000-star omnicrafter, so I can't rake in millions every day, but this is where I am right now: sitting on the gil that I can't touch and can't spend on what I want either - "too long" really doesn't even begin to describe it. And I'm only one of many such.

Holy Shit, the people in this thread...Salty as fuck [...] Its a good Time to Possibly bring in some new and possibly old Blood and I can't Knock SE for that.

Read above. The salt in this thread is justified.
You know what, wanting to bring in new blood and wanting to bring back old players who have "given up" on the game - nothing bad with that in itself. What the problem consists of is the timing, the way housing has been (after such a long time) set up, the way this very first (after such a long time) step to counter that setup is being backstabbed by this campaign. The problem is the fact that this is not the first time/issue (and not the last either, I bet) where SE doesn't seem to think things through and instead just goes ahead with whatever is on the schedule, without taking a second look at it, without making modifications to avoid the negative side-effects. (And let's not even be conspiracy theorists for now and don't assume this had been planned just like this from the beginning.)
And for everyone who's saying "if they left they won't bother to come back just for their house" or "nobody's that evil" or any such - let me mention the "why can't anyone ever create a character on Balmung, I have 8 characters there I barely touch 7 of them but damn if I'm gonna delete any of them" crowd, the "oh I have two mules, both with their own FCs with houses as well as personal houses" crowd, the "I have hundreds of millions, not like I use it, I have a house I don't use, sure you can have it for 10 times as much as its original price" crowd... You get the picture. It can be argued that "it's only a very small percentage", but house owners themselves are a very small percentage, while the want-but-can't people make up a significantly bigger group.

It does mean a potential problem - one that could have been avoided with a bit of thinking, and small modifications. And let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say they did the thinking and applied the tweaks (meaning no-sub returners won't be able to reset their timers): poor presentation becomes the problem (once again), because if it had been mentioned in the post, this whole thread would not exist in the manner it does.

[Lexia]

Looks like housing isn't going to be freed up anytime soon.

Yes some houses will be reset cause some that don't have a sub will long in but remember there are other people that have said that they can't be bothered in for 2 minutes to save a house. So not as many houses will free up but there will still be some.