Question on current housing status

[WhisperFang]

When I first saw this thread I wanted to do some research to see if veteran players on our server really were hoarding housing sites via alt characters. What I did find was quite a few plots in the Goblet owned by essentially mirrors or each other (free companies made after stormblood with the same symbol and name) which also happened to match a free company which predated the expansion. This doesn't prove anything conclusively but it looks to me at least that a pre existing free company (or someone using the same name and symbol) did end up buying most of a ward which looks more like a pre-stormblood Mateus player rather than a newcomer to the server. If true, it's pretty sad to enjoy denying other players the chance to have a digital home even though it isn't against the rules to do so as far as I can tell. Hopefully some of these plots will be freed up in the future to allow as many people as possible access to housing, which was a major reason why I joined Mateus over two years ago

[Endeleon]

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Maybe they are trying to give long time Mateus players a chance after the bustle dies down? There's a high chance they will eventually let those houses relinquish, which will happen after the crazy "preferred" rush, and allow only long time/continuous Mateus players a chance to get them. I really don't mind that they did that. It's not against the TOS and it's really entitled of the new transfers expecting gold strewn streets and empty wards for the taking, when they all rush over. If it was all a bunch of different transfers, I'm sure the anger would still be there, because they transferred on the illusion of everything being up for the taking and weren't given it.