Could we do something?

[Almagnus1]

SE is to blame for “haves and have nots” because they missed to improve the apartment system and did not add enough new wards with the increasing number of players. It is not the fault of veterans who got their houses by playing by the rules.

Wards are tied to server hardware... that's why forcing restrictions is a necessary solution as this entire cluster isn't going to change significantly once Ishgard comes as we need somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4x as many houses as we do before we get to a reasonable saturation point. It's better for SE to just admit their mistake, eat the losses and force the restrictions on everyone (so we're all the same) as that's going to add more houses back into the housing pool. Same can be said for the FC houses, although that's more an issue with the flaw in the FC system and people making use of creative abuses for the sake of greed.

[Niobee]

that's going to add more houses back into the housing pool.

I'm not sure if adding those houses will make a big impact, personally i don't know anyone who owns more than one house. I wasn't able to find any numbers (only talking about personal housing not shell FCs).

[Almagnus1]

I'm not sure if adding those houses will make a big impact, personally i don't know anyone who owns more than one house. I wasn't able to find any numbers (only talking about personal housing not shell FCs).

As long as they exist, there are going to be people asking to have what they have. It'd be an easier long term solution to just end it all at the same time so everyone is equal - preferably after several QOL changes to the housing system that makes multiple houses on the same server for the same account redundant. Tbh, this is really more of a case of "this is why we can't have anything nice".