Another housing delay, imagine that.

[Nekokaori]

I suspect that when housing was initially implemented, population was not a problem. SE probably thought that like with XI, XIV would be niche to the Asia and SEA regions.
So, housing was engineered via code to be wards that could simply be added and subtracted.

I suspect the only reason they didn't make apartments with a patio for gardening and the same size as a small house is because then people with small houses would feel cheated.

Having a house is not an achievement. A small house costs 3.75M which these days is nothing to majority of players.
It's not an achievement to be RNG picked for a house.
It's not an achievement to click for 10 hours straight on a placard (which I did, and in the end I felt nothing but emptiness and sadness for the others who were clicking with me)



I just want to point out that it can take years, if not several years, to recover from natural disasters.
Things like Hurricane Katrina took the city years to rebuild and its residents even longer.
What is taking place is not a natural disaster.
And FFXIV only stops demolition for several months at most.

if se ever thought that they are complete morons, look i preorder arr and was there on an account when it first came out population would have bought them all up in fact there were fcs attacking ppl for getting mansions for single ppl at the time. The issue was gill back then was way harder to get...

Also no way would they believe that consinder how popular ff has been globally since well tbh ff6 . the only reason why ffxi wasnt as popular was by the time many ppl knew it existed it was on pc only (it was on ps2 at one time but most ppl were not aware of it) many ppl didnt have internet at home back then either and had to leave home for it... Plus the fact its on pc only after ps2 is total bs ...

third: cant rlly blame op they had the chance to play it smart and add 4-5x more than the population of a server at the time (which is what any smart devolper would do) to future proof for growth forth: they havent expanded or even done anything to apartments what so ever to make it honestly a reasonable solution for people like Op... SO honestly its SE own fault for not doing both those steps. You never subtract from something when u plan on expanding and adding to the game through expansions that is just a stupid move.