Quote Originally Posted by Qinari View Post
I'm not saying apartments aren't an option, or even a good one, for people who don't have a house at all, I was just wondering why "apartment" seemed to mean if you can get one, which we all know you can, seemed to be a valid answer to the issue. Again, that was my not looking at it in the house vs housing perspective.
It's an example of why SE might be having problems understanding NA and EU player frustration. Too many players keep saying "not enough housing" when what they really mean is "not enough houses".

If all people do is repeat "there's not enough available housing", SE has no reason to pay attention. There are plenty of unclaimed apartments on every world.

SE is already in the process of doing something to add more houses. That's what the Ishgard Restoration is about. Worst case scenario is it will be another standard housing district for players that will add another 1260 houses and 3780 apartments per world (slightly more than we would get if they added 5 new wards to each of the existing housing districts). Will that be enough? Not on the NA worlds, and probably not on the 4 highest pop EU worlds or the highest pop JP world. But it will help.

Maybe SE will also do some of the other things they've talked about, like adding in options for apartment size and making alts automatic tenants of houses owned by same account on the same world. Maybe there are even more changes in the works they haven't mentioned to us.

I know it's frustrating but players need to learn patience. We know the problem isn't being completely ignored. We know something is coming. Let's wait to see how it turns out.