YoshiP over at FFXIV is getting *** blasted atm for the fiasco that is personal housing.
Servers come online after the maintenance/patching is done at roughly 7am EST. Within 30 minutes on my server, all the small and affordable land plots are gobbled up by 2 major FC's intending to sell the land back at a higher price.
People are so mad they aren't instancing the houses like they did in ffxi, and I don't think people will tolerate this lack of communication for much longer until the community starts getting fed up and unsub. We already lost over 25 players just on my server alone because of how pissed off they got with the 2.38 patch, including the slow effect for controller users that is a confirmed bug that is being a thorn in the side of many groups.
All in all my personal thoughts: If YoshiP doesn't get his crap together and start to communicate with his playerbase, FFXIV won't last as long as it was hyped up to be.
Edit: Paged.