Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Nope, the opposite on both points. Prior to Jan 30th, they can (will and should) charge more than usual because they're now not selling you just any plot, they're selling you access to the whole shebang on Feb 6th. They're selling you the best chance you ever have of getting your ideal plot.

At the same time, they should be in the process of creating and ranking up as many dummy FCs as possible. On Jan 29th, any personal houses in their possession should be relinquished and picked up by those dummy FCs. On Feb 6th, those dummy FCs will then relocate to more coveted large or medium plots in Shirogane/Mists/Lavender Beds, which the reseller can then sell as per usual whenever they find someone desperate enough once all plots in the new Wards are gone.

This is the exact thing Square said they wanted to avoid, their reasoning for not telling us housing details too early, and yet here we are.

This assumes you can upgrade your plot. While they said relocating will be allowed, they made no mention you could relocate your small Lavender Bed plot to a large Shirogane. Given you have to pay the difference; essentially buying a new estate, it's quite likely you won't be able to upgrade to a larger plot.

It's not greedy. I know more than a few players who bought multiple houses and started FC's on their alts (mainly for airships) because wards were empty for months and they had the gil and time to sink into such projects.

Telling those players to go screw themselves because they worked and purchased land with in the rules is beyond selfish.

If anything the whole Apartment system should be reworked so that apartments function just like houses but as a personal ward/zone. Allow players to pick any size plot they want for the current cost of plots and allow players to assign apartments as personal or FC so they can have airships and submarines.

To be fair, owning an entire Ward just because the devs foolish failed to account for the potential abuse, is equally greedy. You can't make the selfish argument while being selfish.