House Raffling

[Jojoya]

SE have mentioned their stance on how they wanted housing to be difficult to get, as stated in my previous comment.

Citation needed. I've seen you say this before. I have yet to see a link to an official SE source of any sort, let alone a link to such a statement made by SE in recent years.

Whatever might have been SE's original intent before they added housing to the game, it clearly is not their intent now.

I JUST showed you that 80% of the player base had little access to housing over the last 4 years.

Citation needed from a SE source for active player population each year.

Citation needed that 80% of those active players are both eligible to purchase housing and actually want to own a house.

Again, you're working from someone else's guesswork about population instead of looking at the actual housing availability over time.

Yes JP servers do ok with housing, that's because currently HALF of those servers don't even count towards that 80% of players.

Excuse me? Players and houses on the JP servers don't count?

What severely distorted world are you living in?

If SE wanted housing to be a PvP experience, it would apply just as much to the JP world player base as it would the NA and EU player bases.

Now you're desperate and stretching trying to prove your point that has zero basis in reality.

When a game company can't balance content for all players, they should balance content for the top 80% of players affected and SE does just that. Keeping the feature within their tolerance levels for those 80%. Especially since the remaining 20% aren't harmed in any way. They just have easier housing access, which incidentally, can help distribute server load if people migrate because of it, so it's win-win-win.

Hope you reread this to see how little it makes sense.

You can keep going on about your fantasy explanation about SE's intentions

You're the one who has a fantasy that housing is intended to be some sort of grand PvP content.

Sorry you can dismiss what I've talked about as anecdotal fantasy but yours is even more so. At least the Housing Census thread, along with multiple other posts listing player experience, exist in these very forums to back up that there have been times of extensive house availablity that do not support your claim that house ownership is intended to be a PvP activity.

House availability has been a problem because SE chose a system that would provide a neighborhood feeling for players but requires extensive server resources and can't be easily expanded as demand increases, not because SE wants it to be PvP content. That is why there have been times when house availability started becoming a problem, SE then expanded the wards (or added a new housing district as they did with Shiro and likely are doing next year with Ishgard), and we've gone back to periods where house availability has not been a problem.

They've talked about how surprised they were by the rapid growth of the player base in recent years. They've discussed their attempts to increase housing to meet player demand resulting from that unexpected increase in the player base, especially in NA where FF has not generally been a strong franchise when compared to it's popularity in JP. At the end of one of the 2019 live letters before the release of Shadowbringers, Foxclon translated to English a comment from YoshiP stating that the house situation in NA was bad and they were in discussion about what to do to fix it.

If housing is supposed to be PvP, a bad situation would be a good thing since it would promote even more competition. Right? Nothing like making players fight each other even harder to get something. Someone intending the content to be PvP wouldn't bother fixing it because it's not actually broken.

Provide your link to an official recent statement from SE that they intend housing to be PvP content and I will acknowledge you to be correct.

Until then, live in your little dream world that you're extra special because housing is intended to be PvP content and you managed to win where others haven't.