I don't care about players that buy houses and do nothing with them. Two weeks is more than enough time to do SOMETHING with the plot. Since the patch dropped I've made over 80 million gil just selling furniture, two of the small Shirogane Castle Walls and a few other odds and ends. Well some players don't craft, you say? Neither did I, until I decided that I wanted to start looking into housing in this game and I realised how expensive it was. So I leveled gatherers and leveled crafters and saved up every gil that I could because having a house, with all the nice furnishings and decorations that I wanted, was important to me.

I get it that some people don't have massive amounts of gil to throw into a house, maybe they spent every gil they had to buy the plot. But 51 empty plots out of 60 in a ward? That's ridiculous and it's unfair to players that wanted a house but couldn't beat the queue because of lobby errors or other factors. Every mansion in the ward my personal house is in is entirely empty. Every. Single. One. And I know, me having two houses means one other person didn't get to have one, but from what I can see there is a heck of a lot more empty houses than just the one extra one that I own. If people would stop buying houses and leaving them sitting empty, maybe there would be more players who actually use their house in the wards. That seems more like the issue with housing than someone owning an extra plot.

Honestly the entire housing system is stupid. This entire debate can all be laid at SEs feet because they are too stubborn to just get rid of the wards entirely and instance housing so its available to every player who wants to have a house. Or make the wards FC only, and make all personal housing instanced. Or do what they said they were going to do with apartments and generate more wards as needed automatically. This game makes plenty of money, theres no reason that we should be force fed the same old tired 'server limitations' crap every time we need a feature to be improved on.