The solution is honestly not as complicated as some think it is

[DeNada]

If houses are in great supply eg. Materia, you can be a multi-owner as much as you want and I doubt anyone would care. It's only when supply is greatly diminished when it impacts the experience of non-owners trying to get a plot but is prevented from doing so due to the presence of multi-owners artificially restricting such supply such as on Balmung to give an example.

This is akin to corporations buying up residential housing in cities IRL where housing are already in scarce supply and actual people looking for a house aren't able to get one due to being priced out of the market. No doubt this is not a one to one comparison since this is a video game and not real life but you can somewhat draw the comparison.

The solution is to either greatly increase supply, revamp the entire system or clamp down on multi-owning practices which to be fair, is SE's responsibility. Meanwhile, the rest of us can put up suggestions in the official forums for SE to consider since this is our only outlet and griping elsewhere would be pointless as SE does not even look at other sources from what I've been told.

[Stormpeaks]

If houses are in great supply eg. Materia, you can be a multi-owner as much as you want and I doubt anyone would care. It's only when supply is greatly diminished when it impacts the experience of non-owners trying to get a plot but is prevented from doing so due to the presence of multi-owners artificially restricting such supply such as on Balmung to give an example.

This is akin to corporations buying up residential housing in cities IRL where housing are already in scarce supply and actual people looking for a house aren't able to get one due to being priced out of the market. No doubt this is not a one to one comparison since this is a video game and not real life but you can somewhat draw the comparison.

The solution is to either greatly increase supply, revamp the entire system or clamp down on multi-owning practices which to be fair, is SE's responsibility. Meanwhile, the rest of us can put up suggestions in the official forums for SE to consider since this is our only outlet and griping elsewhere would be pointless as SE does not even look at other sources from what I've been told.

I mean I could be wrong on this, feel free to correct me, but I have very high doubts that there are THAT many multiowners on Balmung, let alone with entire wards

[Sindele]

None really worth speaking of, to my knowledge. It's also worth noting that the first point is a bit specious, too: there are multiple cases of wards being bought when houses were largely devalued and left unfilled on a given server and then the owners being buried in harassment when the server later inevitably starts to fill up. I'm not going to say it necessarily applies to every poster and every point, or even *most*, but there's definitely a streak of purely self-interested entitlement that crops up on this forum from time to time - you see it with the posts like 'remove all FC housing'.

[Nepentha]

None really worth speaking of, to my knowledge. It's also worth noting that the first point is a bit specious, too: there are multiple cases of wards being bought when houses were largely devalued and left unfilled on a given server and then the owners being buried in harassment when the server later inevitably starts to fill up. I'm not going to say it necessarily applies to every poster and every point, or even *most*, but there's definitely a streak of purely self-interested entitlement that crops up on this forum from time to time - you see it with the posts like 'remove all FC housing'.

Yep. I'm seeing in on Dynamis now. My friends and I are having a blast there, we like small servers. Hell might even make this my permanent home. But it's also deader than a doornail. Lots of housing around. (Especially in Goblet, which is where our house is.) Slowly there's some clear sub shack folks buying up housing for the workshop.

I can already hear the screaming about it in... oh, a year or two. When servers fill up finally, and housing goes back to being scarce and suddenly these people buying houses on a dead server will be getting lambasted for their greed and temerity.