Quote Originally Posted by SenorPatty View Post
I think what Tridus is saying--which is also what I think-is that they had a regular budget, the game was not doing well, SE decided to throw money at the game until PR was fixed and then it went back to regular budget.

So basically, the game's got to get to a pretty bad point public-wise again for SE to throw more money at it. Until then, smooth sailing ahead (for them, not for us lol).
Yup. Housing sat as it was forever, which was absurdly under the required capacity. Shirogane happened, and it was still severely under capacity. The outcome that tons of people got nothing wasn't at all a surprise, it was called Shirogane Savage for a reason. The reason was given that they can't add more wards because it requires extra server resources, wards are always running, etc, etc...

Then it turned into a Class III Crapstorm, and suddenly money appeared to increase housing server capacity by 50%. More houses were added due to that than were added with Shirogane itself, when Shirogane was a big, marketed feature and the extra wave of housing was a reaction. They even said during that mess that they were procuring servers for the boost, which isn't free.

So it looks pretty clearly like when the bad PR escalated so much and people were rage quitting, the situation got high enough up the corporate ladder that someone said "here's money, fix this." It worked well enough, it's no longer a PR issue and a lot more people got houses. I don't know that everyone did, but I saw mediums open on Cactaur recently and got one, so it worked out for me.