Housing is the biggest load of crap

[Solowing]

It's definitely a huge ask, which is why even as someone on Dynamis who has seen the number of houses that go unclaimed I can't always suggest a transfer to someone, knowing everything they could be leaving behind just to get a house.

It might be a viable option for some, if their friend circle/FC is willing to make the move too, but that's still placing unrealistic expectations on the players instead of Square-Enix just making a housing system that doesn't screw over anybody, or how the current ward system has fundamentally failed at its intention of creating "cozy neighborhood vibes" when most people don't interact with each other and half the houses are owned by submarine farms printing gil 24/7 anyway. (I still maintain that killing gil from submarines would do a lot to fix housing in mixed wards.)

I'm sure someone will jump in and point out that a bunch of plots across Aether/Primal/Crystal recently opened up due to demo timers activating again, but even if we put aside what a YIKES that is where THOUSANDS of players just upped and left across three data centers, there's the issue that a bunch of people are still going to end up empty-handed because there's still not enough houses to go around (doubly so on Aether and Crystal).

What is a huge ask? What are they leaving behind? Because if you wanna be real about it. The only real difference is like not being in the same FC. I had a friend leave to go to Siren for a plot. And what changed? I can visit them anytime I want, they can visit me any time they want. If I wanna talk to them, we aren't restricted to in-game to chat, I just go through discord. They are PC and I am a console user.So what exactly changed? If they can be reached just as easily as if they were still on my server?

I mean they just upped and left one day, couldn't find a plot on Excalibur, so they went to where they could find a plot they wanted. I was bummed they left. But what really changed? They're right here. Not on my Server or DC but still just as easy to reach, but to them housing IS a high priority. They are willing to the drop $25 to transfer to get that plot (or take the FREE server transfer). And if you don't want to thats fine. But you have to deal with the consequence of that choice.