How many people have multiple houses?

[Ketsomero]

It's not their fault. If they want to keep them, that's fine. But what IS their fault, is their bad attitude towards said salty players.

I understand why they don't want to give up the things they rewarded themselves, but im very worried about what they are going to do when shirogane opens. Are they going to buy out another entire ward because 28 houses isn't enough?

Don't be stupid. Not only would them buying out another would be nearly impossible with the increased population (the reason so many ppl are throwing their little fits), but additionally they would need an army of alts ready to do so. It would be two people vs all the salty players. Regarding their "bad attitude" towards salty players, they were (probably still are) being chewed out for something you admit is not their fault. Cut the guys some slack. I doubt there are many people who would take that kinda junk without batting an eye, and they are allowed to stand up for themselves.

[MaikoRaines]

Earlier tonight I read their tumblr post, and my heart sank. https://seraphaltima.tumblr.com/ I understand why they don't want to give up the things they rewarded themselves, but im very worried about what they are going to do when shirogane opens. Are they going to buy out another entire ward because 28 houses isn't enough? I just relinquished my current FC estate to someone that didn't have a house for free. I did it hoping that I would be able to provide a house for my FC in Shirogane. Reading all of this feels like im getting my hopes up, and more so the lack of reply from square.

Their argument was to "fill the holes"? and "Clearly no one else wanted them. People were leaving, not moving in" are asinine excuses to pad your own greed. You might not be flipping them or using them as FC houses for airship runs to flood the market boards, but it's still greed.

The minute this entitled, self absorbed player uses excuses like "Fill the holes" and "You come into my home/how dare me, how dare you etc" and especially the part about Mateus being flooded with new players was the minute they painted themselves an even bigger pile of elitist snot nosed brats.

First of all, and I really hope the blogger OP is reading this - this isn't a MATEUS issue, this is a server-wide, developer issue! You don't OWN Mateus, especially your ward. Your 28 houses wasn't obtained by two characters - don't kid yourself. You made the alts, transferred the money and then purchased them. You may of earned the money for them, and I commend your tenacity for it, but you weren't benefitting your world or "your home" at all. Buying 28 hours spanning many different alts was you taking advantage of a broken system the game devs overlooked. They're mostly at fault because they didn't look over that one fact that this was an exploit.

Did you seriously think that all of the servers would remain empty like yours? The incentives, the fact that other greedy people from other servers have snagged up a ton of plots for their own purposes. Welcome to the incentive S-E put out for these transfers. What was the outcome you were expecting? To snag another 20+ plots from Kugane when they are released and have some kind of Asian paradise where you can "admire all your hard work" - people like you and people who defend this kind of behavior still make me scratch my head to no ends on why you think doing this is OK or acceptable in any way. Square needs to step up and own this mistake but instead, they punish actual functional FCs because they have left jerks like you to their devices for their screw up and oversight.

The constant excuse of "Oh well the plots were freed up for years" does not openly invite you to circumvent Square-Enix's broken system. Or other greedy land owners for that matter.

Seriously, I'll go start you a "Go Fund Me" for the gated community mod for your exclusive ward and then present it to S-E so it'll keep the homeless rabble out and you two can stare lovingly at your empty houses.

Until someone from Square-Enix actually says or does something to address this, I'll still keep talking about it and hold S-E accountable until there's an address to the subject and a solution that will work in everybody's favor.

[Venjamin]

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Their arguments are irrelevant. They don't need to make them. They were tired of the bullshit from whiny people who flooded the server, so they wrote a response. They don't have to argue or justify. They own the plots ( insofar as anyone can own anything on SE's servers ) and they aren't going to be forced out of them by anything short of rule changes or dev intervention. They don't have to benefit anyone, and this isn't an exploit. If they found a way to break a rule or a basic system function? That would be an exploit. This was just people playing the game how they wanted to.

Keep scratching your head. It's acceptable and okay because it's not breaking any rules, and they worked hard for it. It's cut and dry.

If Square changes the housing rules, then hey, that's a new situation. Until then, feel free to keep complaining to SE. Just don't attack these people because you don't like their attitudes.

[Risu0042]

Keep scratching your head. It's acceptable and okay because it's not breaking any rules, and they worked hard for it. It's cut and dry.

or is it?!?!

"Terms of Service 3.2 Disruption. You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with the Game experience of other players"

It looks like they are disrupting the experience of a lot of other players hoarding a limited commodity.

[Acilith]

With how busy Mateus is now there is absolutely no way they will get 28 houses in Shirogane... at least not in the same ward and honestly even then. Anticipate a player queue that night. They only got those plots because the server was a ghost town.

[Niraves]

Honestly, the stupidity of the people demanding that these two players be punished or have their housing taken away... its just beyond anything I've ever seen. No one gave a crap about Mateus or its housing until all the Balmung refugees decided to flock there. Now all of a sudden everyone is up in arms about the number of houses people can own per account and how selfish and greedy these two players are and blah blah blah blah blah.

Its not selfish to work hard for something and not want to give it up just because someone else thinks they are entitled to it. Its not greedy to take an unwanted resource and make use of it. When they purchased those houses that ward had sat empty for months. Leave them alone, they worked their butts off to accomplish what they did and I personally think its pretty darned cool.

[Rosekitten]

Why would they bother getting homes in the new area? They wanted to be left alone, to build and grow their corner of the world. They did the work, they are still working.. it's not their fault SE allows this sort of thing to happen or has such a limited housing issue going on. The best advice I can say is just keep checking the wards each day and hope one turns up. Even with the new area I have little hope in my fc getting the manor we've saved up for and the gl is just sitting there.. As much as I would love to set up the large house with everything my FC needs rp wise and utility wise.. I'm sure I'll be waiting and hoping that some large house opens up outside of the new area.

[Elamys]

they apparently bought a 29th house

[Drkdays]

I have 2 houses, a large and a small. I only play around with one, really, so i feel a bit bad about having two, but it's a small pop server so there isn't a ton of demand, and it's better than having 30 or so at least...