How many people have multiple houses?

[Anova]

Kotaku isn't exactly known for their quality journalism, and their interview of the players in question seems rather one-sided, so I would take everything in that article with a certain grain of salt.

That said, I personally think 28 houses is excessive, even if it is split between 2 players. They do good house designs though and I wouldn't mind seeing their work as part of a public or even if they hired themselves out as contractors and interior designers for other players; but that is a more personal reaction to their work and not to the situation.

As for the fact that housing is limited and is causing rampant inflation on popular servers, it is a strictly supply problem and the fault lies entirely with SE. The fact that players are asking for 50m gil to abandon their land says something about the demand and the lack of supply. A big problem with it is how SE decided to implement the housing, as neighborhoods instead of instances. This makes it incredibly taxing on the system as the neighborhoods themselves are entire zones, and the data allocation gets difficult extremely easily because every new patch adds new items that players use to decorate. There's no way for SE to handle this except to overhaul the system.

Philosophically, it's objectionable for 2 players to own 28 houses on a single server, but considering the land was laying there for months and months on an unpopular server, it's not unreasonable to think it was okay to use the land if you wanted; especially since those players had no idea SE would launch a server migration event and their server had plenty of land available. The majority of people complaining are players who migrated to the server for the new adventurer and 1mil gil reward. I'm not saying these players don't have a right to complain, but it's not wholly unexpected for housing to already be taken on older servers.