from the impression i got from the live letter housing is going to be finite and to further compound this deeds to land wont expire, so i can see a few issues with this. one i can easlly see rmt buying as much land as they can and then selling it for real money when they have a majority control of land, while sure square could combat this one but it does not seem like they have invested in the man power to fight the rmt's (i'm sure you have seen the bots going for hours with no interference) i hope i'm wrong but thats my impression. two, people buy land and quit the game and never sell it which will result in over time a stagnation of the land sells and eventually to the point where nobody can use it. the third issue i could see is groups that are not rmt buying up land and doing nothing with it to drive the costs sky high and making it where nobody can enjoy it making a fun and "major" feature rendered unusable to the majority of the players.
i can see a few big issues with housing
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11-05-2013, 02:04 PMxanji can see a few big issues with housing
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11-05-2013, 02:18 PMBracken
OMG Gil Sellers live like Kings while we all live in the slums :O
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11-05-2013, 02:23 PMAllyra
1. it is not finite, it's finite per zone. Aka, once a zone is bought up, another zone appears.
2. There is nothing to suggest you can resell land to other players, and everything suggest otherwise, as you buy it from the game. Getting rid of the land probably just means giving it back to the game for the game to resell.
3. housing is a money sink, there is no reason for rmt to buy it. They probably will just try to craft furniture for money.
4. people need to stop panicking about things that aren't even out yet. -
11-05-2013, 02:24 PMRukira
I was under the impression there wasn't a limit on housing? Once a block fills up, they just have another neighborhood.
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11-05-2013, 02:28 PMFuriea
I feel like they are just trying to burn some gil off the server.
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11-05-2013, 02:28 PMAlhanelemRMT will not buy housing. It destroys millions of gil. RMT are in the business of creating it, not destroying it. There's also the part where it takes a while to form and rank up a free company (you can be sure the new ranks will take longer to achieve) and no real RMT account would last long enough to play the housing market.Quote:
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Also, housing is not really finite, when an instance is filled up, a new one iwll be opened. -
11-05-2013, 02:34 PMHoroBoro
Cracking up thinking about King Gold CEO's Castle in Ul'dah with his army of RMTs as lords of their own fiefdom all across Ezorea and player peasants farming shards to support their darklight/myth/etc repair bills XD
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11-05-2013, 02:36 PMken00
it was in the interview for the ppl who havent seen it, there is a finite number of land and multiple instance for them and yoshi or i think the housing guy said they would increase the instance depending on the server~
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11-05-2013, 02:47 PMVactusDid you actually read anything from the developers? If so, how's your reading comprehension skills? Cause if you read or watched anything you'd know how absolutely wrong you are.Quote:
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11-05-2013, 03:06 PMZmmyZoinks
I think our OP played UO for too many years.
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11-05-2013, 03:44 PMb14ckroseI can see a few big issues with your use of upper case letters.Quote:
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11-05-2013, 05:22 PMNialleYoshi said that you will be able to resell land deeds to other players.Quote:
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11-05-2013, 05:28 PMBaneusUnless the RMT sellers are prepared to take significant losses, they simply aren't going to be able to sell the almost unlimited housing spaces for more than they are being sold for by the game itself. No one will buy from them. Well, unless you count those people that don't realise you can buy crafting basics from guild suppliers for next to nothing.......Quote:
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11-05-2013, 05:29 PMNialle
Who's claiming RMT are going to go into the real estate business? Not me. I was just correcting their statement that land won't be re-sellable among players. =P
RMT folks sell gil, not houses. Though I can imagine that players selling their entire accounts might use the housing plot attached as a value-added thing to bump up the price. Some plot locations are 'nicer' than others, going by the video tours, so I'd imagine demand might be higher for those. -
11-06-2013, 01:51 AMAllyrafair enough, I missed that.Quote:
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But ya as Baneus said, this is a non issue anyway, as you aren't going to be able to sell the land more than what you bought it for since people can just buy it off the game for cheaper. -
11-06-2013, 07:19 AMArkista
The biggest issue with housing.... We have to wait 6 months to get our own!
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11-06-2013, 07:38 AMSayura_Maybe. Or a room inside your FC's house... how..quaint.Quote:
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11-06-2013, 08:09 AMFelismax price is capped. the price can only go down (every 6 hours), not upQuote:
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11-06-2013, 10:28 AMYeaniNah
I thought when they introduce housing they said you can only have 1 house for each city. So even if the RMT buy 3 house. People just need to not buy from them and wait for more deeds to buy.
and they will need to work more on FC ranks
Q: What are the requirements to own a house?
A: You will need to increase the rank of your free company to the point where you have permission to buy a house. After this you just need to buy the deed to the land and house.
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11-06-2013, 11:16 AMAlexb150
even if you cant resell land is there anything stopping them creating a free company, ranking it up with bots or whatever then switching leadership of the FC to the person buying?
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11-07-2013, 01:46 AMInquisitor
RMT's will begin offering sub-prime mortgages eventually leading to the collapse of the Eorzean housing market!!!
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11-07-2013, 01:56 AMAlavastreKind of a lot of work don't you think? RMT's are in to make real money. But it's pretty simple. Grind crap, sell crap. Take Gil and sell for real money. It sounds like you think there is going to be the RMT mob boss, and he's going to start shaking down the local houses and shops for protection money.Quote:
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11-07-2013, 02:23 AMSayura_His name is Gold ceo.Quote:
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11-07-2013, 02:44 AMBufkuswhy on earth would they do that in the first place?Quote:
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