Quote Originally Posted by MaikoRaines View Post
And it's that whole narrow-minded white knight mentality that I think it's funny you can justify two people owning an entire ward. It's one thing it being 3 or 4 houses, but think back to some of the comments and reasonings why they did it.
If you're trying to use white knight as an insult to bolster your argument, you have a very weak argument. There's no reason for it trying to insult people, just make your point.


As for letting people keep their plots, its the best decision for SE to make. As for letting the group on Mataeus owning most of a ward, thats just applying the same rule equally to all players...also a good decision. Removing things from players that they've invested a lot of time and gil and cash into is a bad precedent to set and one nobody should be encouraging. Think about it, would you want SE to remove something you had payed money for? What if they next decided to remove the jump potions from the game because too many people hate it and reset anyone who had used it back to their previous level? Or how about mounts or bonding ceremonies or server transfers?

But lets do the math, there's 2880 plots now and lets say 25% of them are alts for houses that could be removed, thats 720 additional plots for approximately 8,000 people after all the others are taken up. If you assume 25% of those will go to FCs, that leaves 540 plots for individuals....or about 6% more of the population. What are the odds someone will successfully get one of those 540 plots? I'm going to say very very low and whats going to happen after? Those that didn't get a plot will complain on the forums again about not having a plot or about the mad rush to get it on release day or the lack of plots for individuals since all the 1 man +3 alt FCs bought everything on release day.

What does SE get for doing this? A PR black eye. A decrease in expected revenue because people are less confident in SE because they don't know if SE will remove their purchases now. Another segement of the population mad at them because they took away things they already earned.

There is no UP side for SE to do do this. SE is much better off spending their resources on creating more wards. Removing houses from people doesn't cure the housing issue, it doesn't even put an effective bandaid on it. It just pisses people off.