Quote Originally Posted by VerdeLuck View Post
The devs are aware of it, and it is very much a loophole since it's "technically" inside fo the TOS, but very much against the spirit of how the game is set up and the spirit of the rules everyone else is forced to abide by.
It's a case where people who fall into this situation and have multiple alts without houses and own large amounts of houses already really really don't want to give them up, even if that means anyone who started after them gets screwed over.
It's just a part of the classic MMO mindset of F you I got mine.

It really should be fixed and the fact that SE have been too scared to address the issues properly and fix the housing system for this long are what's building this pressure. They come by every so often and drop extra houses to relieve the pressure, but any extra houses get snapped up by people wanting to recreate their own perfect little RP ward to themselves. Supply gets short again, and now more has to be dropped in because SE refuses to address what has already been put out there but has been concentrated in the hands of a few.
Instanced houses will not fix this, unless there is a significant reason to use instanced houses over real houses, we will just be at square 1 where people fight over the superior housing of ward housing and those with multiple houses just add +1 to their house count for free. Adding additional supply just kicks the problem down the road for a few months until once again all the supply is snapped up by people who want to own as much as possible, and then we're back where we started.
They would need to to tighten up enforcement and fix some of the loopholes but they're honestly too scared of the pushback they'd get over a subculture of the game that's been allowed to fester for half a decade doing this and would be apalled if suddenly they were forced to follow the same rules as everyone else without half a dozen alts, and just stick with 1 house per person.

Really, it's not going to be fixed, the problem will continually get kicked down the road with wards added over and over till finally in 3-4 expansions the game gets put on maintenance mode, it starts to wind down, and eventually it hits end of life. Doesn't mean we should stop asking, but the signs are all there that this is something SE does not want to address and piss off a part of the community to fix.
but any extra houses get snapped up by people wanting to recreate their own perfect little RP ward to themselves
until once again all the supply is snapped up by people who want to own as much as possible
Well good to know my private ward was actually me all along then, should I go and say hi to myself since apparently I own all of it ?