For my part i wonder at what point the ranting has only been delayed. Sure there seems to be a lot of free houses, which make people says that the offer has finally meet the demand, but it seems some of them simply can not be bought at all because of the random demolition timer still going on. That was the case of the first two i tried to buy. People were ranting today in my linkshells on how they lost 4 hours waiting for the timer to stop only to have their plot of choice snatched by someone else, then they were moving on to another plot and beginning to wait again, etc. And by doing that they were not thinking of ranting in the forums, not when a single moment's innatention could mean another spot taken from them.

So before saying too fast that this patch is successful i think we might need more datas, like waiting to all the demolition timer to stop, all the spots to be bought, and then see how many people will still be without a house and what their reaction will be.