What Happens To Houses We Have on Same World? Do We Get Our Money Back?

[MizArai]

Honestly, I find people being grandfathered into this situation incredibly unfair. What about the newer players who haven't been around when fresh housing is released? Even the mid-population servers fill up nearly immediately after housing wards are released. To my knowledge house flipping is against the ToS and many people got their multiple houses this way. Personally, I've only been around for when Shirogane was released and had only one shot to legitimately purchase an estate.

I started a few months before HW was released. When I started there were no houses available, and there wasn't even an auto-demolition timer yet. Getting a house was pretty much a pipe dream. You have no idea how excited I was when 3.3 came out and I could finally get a house!

When I was new to the game, I expected that at some point in the future SE would add more houses since the population on all the servers was rising and they were getting more and more subscribers. I never felt it was the responsibility of anyone who came before me to not buy more than 1 house since they were available before I started playing. I just figured one day it would be my turn.

So I'm completely confused when new players are upset about how the housing system is unfair and get mad at other players for their lack of foresight that someone else would start playing some day and want the house they purchased. Either be content to house hunt at aetherytes waiting for your turn or be mad at SE for making the housing so limited with this warded system instead of viable housing for all players.

Also, if you have only been around for the release of Shirogane, how would you know how fast wards filled up after release. There were mediums and smalls on Hyperion for about 3 days that were still available after 3.3 released the 4 new wards then. And there were plenty of houses available on multiple servers until the free transfers happened. I know Shirogane was a different beast, and everything here filled while I was in queue (super glad we gave money and housing purchase privileges to multiple people so that we could get a medium for our FC, though now I wish we would have waited so that it could be somewhere other than Shirogane).

With all that in mind, I have little sympathy for people who come to the forums and want to take houses from other people just because they started playing later. It was a long time before I got my house. I'm sure it was a long time for lots of other people as well. If you want a house from the day you hit 50, get mad at SE, not the people who have been here playing the game, supporting it through it's many flaws, and have something that you want.