Quote Originally Posted by Sylvastreak View Post
You're all complaining to SE that there's not enough housing while supporting people hoarding housing and plots "because they can". You are all hypocrites and this forum is a goddamn cesspit. Awha, as someone who literally struggled to get a housing plot for an fc house, do not hoard houses for the love of the Twelve. You might see it as a hobby but it really does affect other people and prevent them from accessing a lot of fc stuff at the very least, as well as closing off opportunities for people to use the gardening system and chocobo stabling.
We're supporting players who have houses.

Again, the problem is not the 3,780 characters who have personal houses. The problem is that 5,040 houses exist for an average of 24,000 people on NA servers, leaving roughly 20,220 homeless per server. Even if we deleted every personal house in the game and started over, there would be 20,220 homeless after the houses were purchased once again. In short, we need 4 or 5 times the wards we currently have. SE knows this, and they are working to launch more. They might even implement instanced housing with Ishgard - we won't know till they announce it.

But taking away the 3,780 currently owned houses won't solve the problem. In fact it will deprive many players of time spent, it will deprive many players of enjoyment - those players will in turn cancel their subs, depriving SE of subscription money, a lot of it. This lost money will result in a reduction in quality of the game which will hurt everyone who plays it. You are asking SE to hurt us players, and hurt themselves. They have already decided not to do this. This is why grandfathered housing exists.

Some players don't decorate their houses. Some players don't enter their houses. Some players use their houses regularly. Every one of these players deserves to keep their houses, unless they decide not to enter their house for 45 consecutive days. That is SE's determination on the matter. There is sound logic behind this decision, and we who support it are not being hypocritical.