Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

[Almagnus1]

Look at you, failing to use data properly. I will point out that you are, yet again, blowing things out of proportion.

Your data shows that NA has 38,772 FC houses, 6053 of which have less than 4 members to them (which is 15.61%), while EU has 18,342 FC houses and roughly 3,519 have less than 4 members, which is 19.19%. So the 20% worldwide is actually higher because the problem is worse in JP than it is in the other regions.

You might want to take a look at the amount of FCs of various sizes... with or without a house. You will quickly realize that Japanese players are not very interested in anything but small FCs.

So you're saying that of the 62,681 FC houses in Japan, 48,527 of them which are for FCs that are 4+ members (which is what I consider to be a legitimate FC in the scope of this post) don't care about small FCs?

I'm not talking about them, only the 14,154 FC houses for FCs that have 1-3 members, which comprise 22.58% of the FC houses in JP.

Additionally, regardless of what you call a shell FC, the amount of players that benefit from FC housing is higher than what personal housing could ever achieve.

So then why does the data at https://www.xivhousing.com/ show that there's a worldwide total of 266,703 personal houses (and/or vacant - your data lumps these two together for whatever reason) and only 124,977 FC houses? (For that matter, there is no datacenter that has more FC houses than personal houses).

If what you are saying is true, shouldn't that ratio be reversed?

Why don't you go and ask the JP players why they are playing the way they are? It's really funny how you are projecting your own definition of acceptability on a group of players you don't even interact with.

Because this isn't a JP only thing.