Quote Originally Posted by s32ialx View Post
The issue isn't entitlement, it's accessibility. No one is saying players are "owed" a house just for paying a sub, but the idea that the existing housing system is fine because "apartments exist" ignores the fact that apartments are an extremely limited alternative compared to ward plots.
Actually I will say it: everyone paying a sub does deserve equal access to all forms of housing, so one personal plot and/or FC plot, one apartment and/or FC room, and the Island, and anything else housing based they may create in the future. Otherwise some people’s sub gets them more for their money than others. Which is a bad business model when competitors are doing instanced (and damn near unlimited) housing that doesn’t even require a sub to access it.

It’s an in-game feature, and everyone should get to fully partake in it. Instead it’s purely RNG whether anyone can get a plot. It’s not some sort of prestige prize either, to cut off those that always argue with me, somehow insisting that everyone getting a plot means they should just start giving away ultimate weapons next. *eyeroll* The equivalent would be a lottery to determine whether you could even enter the fight, in other words: accessing the content.

You’ve laid out a good idea here, and I agree with you: apartments are just one housing option, and they are the most limited, along with the Island. I’ve wanted apartments to get a refresh along with their own small, medium and large versions for awhile now. With that kind of option in place there are some that might actually prefer it to a plot in a ward subject to auto-demo (again a player instigated policy).

“But that’s not fair to plot owners who have to worry about auto-demo!” I mean, one it’s not “fair” that only certain people get a plot in a game we all pay for anyway. But two, different forms of housing have different criteria. An apartment is an instance that only loads up when in use, so auto-demo is unnecessary, because there’s nothing stopping anyone else from getting the exact same thing. A ward plot is permanently loaded in the ward, and when all those wards are full, there’s nothing left for anyone else. You can argue that the system was designed that way on purpose, but it was players who insisted on the auto-demo. And for ward housing it actually makes sense, because if someone quits the game without self-demolishing, should that space be taken up for 10 years keeping someone else from using it?