Player Purchase Priorty

[Greyhawk]

Thanks for counting my server count error. I edited my original post.

Regardless, it still sucks goat ass for the player-base. Even if you want to go at 1 million players active, it still doesn't excuse the fact that even three years ago, we were at half the accounts with even less housing wards and plots available, and nothing was done about resource allocation or additional housing structure, or even perhaps a change in housing itself. It doesn't excuse the fact that it's essentially gone unchecked and ignored. It doesn't excuse the fact that housing isn't available to everyone. It is the same boat, it just wasn't sinking as quickly back then. Nothing has changed that the housing issue is still an issue and hasn't been taken seriously.

Yes, servers cost money. But because they created poor implementation of resources, the player-base suffers. Their engineers, developers and IT guys should be getting paid to manage their resource allocation. The poor implementation of housing has proven that. Did they honestly believe that their game wasn't going to be successful? I doubt it with this franchise. I seriously wonder if the lack of access to something like this didn't hurt their numbers, and focusing so much in other areas scared people back to older games with proven methods that didn't make it to this game when it came to things like housing.

So feel free to move the decimal place over a digit if it makes you feel better. 19% of the player-base has access to a housing plot in the entire game. Those are still elitist numbers, IMO.

[Almagnus1]

If you haven’t notice, entire “housing crisis” is just active NA minority making loud noise on the forum
This is not a Worldwide problem

Maybe it's because there's more people/server in NA than there are in the other two regions?

[LaylaTsarra]

They need to reduce the demand for Ward housing by making apartments a lot more special. Multiple rooms, ability to share, more item slots etc. Not everyone needs or wants a ward house. Many would settle for a duplex apartment or something along those lines. Not everyone wants to garden. I have ward houses and I don't garden. They aren't going to do away with wards at this point in my view unless they have something special planned for Ishgard but I doubt it. They do appear to be ready to add a lot more wards but overall that won't be enough.

[Ravenblade1979]

Being able to relocate is one of the better features in my opinion. That at least frees up a plot somewhere else. It's the timer that is the issue and needs to be fixed.

The timer wouldnt have been needed if people werent flipping houses for absurd amounts. That's the legit reason the timer is even there now

[Penthea]

The timer wouldnt have been needed if people werent flipping houses for absurd amounts. That's the legit reason the timer is even there now

And people wouldn't be flipping for sometimes crazy amounts if there were enough houses. These people have a market to exploit precisely because there is a house shortage. Every major issue with housing goes back to the shortage. The timer won't go away until that issue is addressed.