You can't make an "unintentional" mistake like this when you've been dealing with rng's for +25 years in many, many rpg's (and they even have experience in online and previous mmorpg too)

"It's SURELY A MISTAKE !!! It cannot be !"

I know a few listing of houses not for gil on websites poping out everywhere that are very happy with this system !

Maybe square will fix a few of them to save face as a decoy / distraction but most of them are already gone.

I'm seriously hoping for the "island" thing to be a housing feature or else, a few hundred k players out of their new millions of subs are going to be really disappointed.