Quote Originally Posted by neoreturn View Post
1. Benefit. Give FC a clear benefit when they own a FC house.
For example, 2% main attribut increase in a hour after stay in house over 5 mins
Or some benefit for crafting grinding. The bigger the house more player can get bonus from house.
Without a clear benefit, none will to buy a house with such high price even they can offer even higher price. It is not real world which we have to get a house for living.

2. Resell value. House can be resell when they got more Gil to offer even larger house. So FC still will to buy a small house as soon as they can offer it.

3. Give some house for auction every week. Just like foreclosure house. Let marketing decide what's it worth instead of a game director's decision.
1. There are clear benefits to owning an FC house, go read that live letter answers thread that Pseudopsia was kind enough to link to.

2. You will be able to trade in your land deed towards a larger land deed. (I believe they said that feature was coming in 2.2)

3. Housing is a gil/crafting sink, not too mention that SE has stated that they would add housing as needed (as a certain percentage of the last instance get's filled up). Any FC that wants a house can buy one under this system, and even if they implemented an auction system for some of the houses, they'd just end up selling for a few gil less than whatever the current price SE has set is.

Housing is optional, you don't need it as a requirement to do something else... what exactly is the point you're getting at? Why does SE need to do something? There hasn't exactly been a huge outcry about the housing system. Will you also argue that there are no clear benefits to companions and SE needs to change that as well?