Exclusive item for those with housing bug?

[Illmaeran]

that's.. seems like a crappy "compensation"

They didn't have to do anything at all. Given that paying for the plot is a voluntary thing, handing out a little poster to apologize to people who do the right thing and pay for their plot is simply a nice gesture.

Wonder how many players are going to pay 3 million plus to get a few wall posters that say "SE was willing to give me a free house but what I really wanted was these posters". No doubt a wealthy few would as long as the posters are an exclusive for those who beat the bug after getting a refund.

As usual, the business world rewarding the rich and lucky while ignoring the rest.

The first thing I did when logging in this morning was to pay for my plot and I know other people who will be doing it too. Not for the poster, but because of personal integrity and a sense of fair play. Nobody I talked to about this issue even knew there was going to be any sort of "compensation" for their good deed when we had our conversations. Personally, after seeing all the salt hither and yon, I wish they'd never implemented the poster thing and just left it up to the player to pay or not pay.

I'm sure plenty of people unaffected by the bug will buy them for bragging rights.

Again, again, again, again, again, the NPC was specifically put in the game to allow people who were impacted by the bug to voluntarily pay for their plots. This NPC isn't there as a poster vendor who just so conveniently happens to sell them for the cost of plots.

Rich and lucky? What's your gil threshold for being rich in this game? 10 mil, 50 mil, 100 mil? Lucky? Yeah, having to wait all that time to take possession of my plot was really lucky. I'm sure everyone's jumping at the chance to go through that.

Regarding one of your latter questions; I'm on a JP server.