1 account buying 14 houses in 1 ward.

[KiraCifer]

see someone selling a house by shout or PF report them as against the rules more so selling it for more money then they paid for it so let them bye 14 house when see them selling it for double the price report them if the GM doing what they should then should get a suspension if not out right ban then just got to wait 45days for them to come back up

[syunikiss]

I'm looking around in 'their' ward right now, actually. Kinda looks neat to see an entire ward with one roof+roof color combo.


Just looking at the last interior. But for the most part, remember those spooky animal crossing villages?

Aika Village still gives me chills.

[Besame]

One medium house and one apt here. Housing should be limited to 1 private house per server until they upgrade hamsters *rolls eyes*. Then, perhaps one per housing area only. Having a so called, "social neighborhood", which is non-existent anyway, is not worth denying housing to 90+% of the players.

House hording and fully decorating them all is like real life hording, causal effect: mental illness.

[Mirch]

only 14? lol

[Acilith]

I don't think they're screaming that people who want a house are wrong, I think they just honestly want to be left alone. And I don't blame them? I guess? They DID move to Mateus on purpose over a year ago to be in a ghost town. I can't imagine they were the ones to 'cast the first stone'. But yeah, busy MMO.

I don't really understand the hostility on either side of the fence. People told Balmung folks, 'LOL BALMUNG PROBLEMS LMFAO JUST MOVE SERVERS!!' So they did. And so they did en mass. It's totally understandable that they'd just shuffle people around on the already dead servers, rather than make a whole new server. And TBH most of the Balmung people already know what it's like to know straight up they'll never ever have a house.

[Rosekitten]

I haven't been to that ward but the 28 houses thing isn't the only ward on the server where someone or a small group have taken a fair number of lots.. It was the other day my husband asked if this name was a fc or player and from the looks of it a Fc had at least 7 or 8 houses.. While I get it.. it was a small server it kinda bites really hard as my whole FC moved from Balmung just to try and finally get a FC house. We've been a Fc from the start of 2.0, had to drop our x year old FC just to move.. and naught to show for it.

Shoot the rumor that the new house area was opening today and I went there just to see how many were standing in the area.. I'm not holding out much hope on us getting a house. Though it is annoying to see most of the ones standing there knowing too well they already have at least one if not more houses on the server. >.< As much as I don't like to fault or restrict people in what they do with their game time.. it is just flat out silly that a chunk of game content is blocked to so many players. I was so excited to move to a small pop server with a community I had been enjoying over a free to play weekend. I had plans to help my Fc mates finally get the food and stuff to color and level their chocobos.

Now I just have to twiddle my thumbs and hope I get really lucky in the land rush that I guess will happen in a few months.

[MaikoRaines]

I'm on Excal and I know the top two players who monopolize the housing. One of them bots with multiple accounts. Can 100% confirm this with video proof. Yet, it falls upon deaf ears on the GMs. They won't use evidence from a 3rd party and they apparently have detection methods.

What makes me upset the most are the forum community managers not actively addressing the housing situation and the GMs downplaying our multiple reports on botting. You are community managers! This isn't an A La Carte service where you can address one topic and not the other.

This topic has been beaten to death, so how about you pull your socks up and finally address it? If we can't put the offenders on blast because of the same TOS they're violating, then at the very least I'll put the Community mods and GMs on blast for their lack of respect on not publicly addressing the subject and the lack of respect to the multiple reports against these serial offenders who do obviously bot that nothing has been done with.

But someone's feelings will get hurt and you'll take no time to hand out warnings or temp forum bans for speaking out against that kind of nonsense. Especially when someone is actually brave enough to name drop because they've had it with the lack of action S-E will do to them because they're paying premium prices for multiple accounts and most likely max retainers.

I love this game and all, but as a player, I feel invalidated because I pay for one account and this person pays for at least 8 and breaks the TOS agreements.

And yeah, as a player, that kind of hurts MY feelings when we're ignored like that. /feels

I DARE a community manager to actually address these two long standing issues and actually take some initiative and tell us if there's a plan or... something. Until then, this palomino is gonna get whack-a-moled by many more frustrated people.

[Seraphyna]

You aren\'t telling the full story. Those 2 players who you just accused for "extreme house hoarding" has been on that server for years, way before "refugees" came flooding in due to the free server transfers.

It doesn't matter.

Yes, they ARE hoarding housing. It doesn't matter that the houses were vacant for who knows how long.

No player should have the ability to monopolize a limited resource like housing.

Yes, SE needs to fix this. It should be one FC owner and one personal house per account, not character. Make houses account wide. Houses only demolished upon the 45 days.

People who do this are greedy and quite frankly, that article only paints them in a elitist, snobbish "I don't want riff raff in my neighborhood " light. It's not their neighborhood. I really do hope SE puts on their big boy pants and finally does something.

Edit: To add, Ward 12 went live in June 2016. Of the 12 FC's of theirs I found, all of them were founded before this patch or days after. I have no doubt the houses were bought at the same time as there's really no need to level so many FC'S unless you have/want housing.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

They bought up the ward BEFORE the floodgates of Balmung opened up, and it doesn’t seem like they are trying to price gouge people at all, they just seem to genuinely enjoy housing and wanted to decorate houses and keep to themselves, so the fact that people are shit talking them now that SE decided to open up the floodgates I feel is super unjustified. They even said it themselves “Mateus showed no signs of getting bigger”.

Sick of reading stupid comments like this "but they did it when the server/ward was empty". So what, Did they really think that the server was never going to fill up with people? I'm sorry but are they deluded?

If they wanted to do this properly they could've made a forum post got in multiple people who share their same idea and made it a server-wide project.

It's plain and simple greed.

[Clawbriar]

Maybe Square Enix should do away with their 'good faith' system.

Remember how they were surprised people tried to sell the Eternal Bonding items over Party Finder? If there's an exploit, MMO players will do everything they can to make sure they can get the best out of it; and the only way to fix that is to patch it out. Good faith simply does not work.