This has always bothered me.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

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I mean yes, when you come into a thread and act the way you do - and bring governments into it??? - most people are:

A) Not going to take you seriously
and B )Think you're... well, raving - either for the sake of raving, or because you're one of those people who think it's perfectly okay to eat up a finite resource all for the sake of greed or ego.

Frankly, if people are reimbursed their money and furnishings - in full - I do not see the issue. Grandfathering was a mistake to begin with, but the problem doesn't just extend to those who were grandfathered in before the limitations on home owning were imposed. People still get around it via alts and purchasing FC houses, bot scripts for placards, you name it. And that is not okay; taking away more than the limits imposed on you by the game, of a finite resource, is the definition of selfish.

Yes, ultimately it is the fault of SE for creating housing this way. Most other MMOs have done various ways of instanced housing, including ways to provide both exterior and interior design. They chose to build it in this faulty way, and they choose to continue to cling to that faulty design despite most of the playerbase begging them for instanced housing instead.

But that doesn't excuse selfish players gobbling up a hard-to-obtain and severely limited resource. Just because the ultimate issue lies with SE's design of our housing system, doesn't negate the fact these people are actively choosing to make the problem worse.

But judging by your responses to most people in this thread, I don't really feel like you understand that concept nor really want to hear logic to begin with. Feels like you've got a chip on your shoulder beyond just this one game's housing issues, and that's something you need to work out on your own, away from MMOs.