The Real Problem with Housing

[Corvus_V]

Mabinogi has instanced housing, and homesteads. They deleted their housing channels entirely and replaced them with that (although it took some time.)
If a cash cow as miniscule as that can do it, you are an idiot among idiots if you think SE can't afford to pull off the same thing.
Enough with the pity, they're rich.

Even if you're one of the people who enjoys venues and a neighborhood setting, not giving people the option to have instanced housing so they can have access to things like company workshops and gardening is sad and stupid. It's a puny facet of the game that shouldn't be tied to something as hilariously scarce as it is; and it wasn't justifiable to give that kind of scarcity exclusively to FCs, when they every single small is basically the functional equivalent of a large. All you're doing at that point is fostering RMT.

These suggestions are a joke, I keep saying this: but this straw-man of "people were trolling by relocating!!" and "placard clicking sucks" is so pathetic as well. Give me a break.

On the former, what do you think is more cost-efficient, having the entire housing system uprooted to prevent transfers, or a GM banning a couple of rich griefers per capita, who lose access to their griefing funds? What are they gonna do? Sue Square Enix? You think they own their accounts? They need to be banned by a jury of their peers? LOL
I could get banned for this post

On the latter, why couldn't they have just made lottery's for smalls? Why would they have to do it for everything, and why all 24 wards? Do you think people are constantly relocating from small to small for a nicer view or something? Again, give me a break

This whole system is somehow supposed to be more fair to everyone. So what about everyone else who was prepared for the release of Ishgard housing? What about the people who spent money on smalls and spent hours and hours placard-clicking for the express purpose of relocating? Downsizing their storage? Buying furniture? etc? Was it fair to them, too? The people who managed to get time off for the patch? Who stayed awake so that they could log in first? No, right? Imagine training for a race, or a marathon, and then when you manage to get to the finish line first, someone holds you at gunpoint because "its more fair to the people who don't have the time to get in better shape" even though both of you probably work full time and have all your own real life problems. Does it make it ok when you just pretend that they're NEETs or something?

It isn't even more fair like you guys all say it is, because not everyone put forth an equal effort in the first place

[Sythex]

Mabinogi has instanced housing, and homesteads. They deleted their housing channels entirely and replaced them with that (although it took some time.)
If a cash cow as miniscule as that can do it, you are an idiot among idiots if you think SE can't afford to pull off the same thing.
Enough with the pity, they're rich.

It's worse in my mind when I think about what they're giving us instead. "Oh you didn't get the medium house you wanted? here, have an island instead. you can't build on it or decorate it, but you can let all your minions roam around there." .......REAL smooth Squenix!