The broken FFXIV Holy trinity

[Verdan]

I'm pointing out that the reason people are complaining about housing is for entirely selfish reasons, and not for any perceived broken way of handling how they were sold to players or FC's. RMT's have more money available then players, the would with absolute certainty make sure that any mechanism to increase housing would again be made scarce. This is only resolved by getting rid ofthe demand for housing entirely, which means getting rid of the ability to have a community-oriented house in favor of instances that nobody but you can use. We already saw this in Version 1.0's Market board/Retainer system. It was garbage. If you didn't set your retainer up in the first 10 minutes the servers went live, you were never getting a spot. This is also true in other games that have limited space. Hackers and bots get everything first. The only solution is to get rid of housing altogether. I'm not going to campaign for that. Join a FC if you need a house badly enough, that's the entire point of them. Not for players to create thousands of tiny FC's, but for there to be only a handful of large FC's.

Wow what bad understanding of how things work! For one, Bots would monopolize market board space because they had a reason to. Market Boards were how you sold things. It's vital for how RMT works to be able to sell things to other players, otherwise they have no hook into the economy. While it's true that the RMT networks have massive amounts of money available, they want as much of that liquid as they can. This is why they do things like sell shards and materia, because that requires little investment and is always moving. They'd never buy up a house to sell it later, that's too much of an investment for a non-guaranteed payoff, which is the last thing you want if you're selling in-game money. On top of that, selling that plot requires a lot of interactions, which takes labor because it can't be automated. You could offer it on their website, but that also leaves them open to someone noticing it and reporting it, potentially compromising the whole network because the owner of the plot can't be all that disposable.

Moreover, you don't seem to get that restricting housing access to large FCs makes housing a useless system for the game as a whole. Let's just assume that everyone joins a big FC in order to take part in housing. Well, now furnishings and garden items have little to no market value, because people who want them are in a position to get them, by being in a large and diverse group. Who's gonna buy a clock for their house when they're in an FC with around 200 people, some of whom are sure to be able to make it? As it is now, you only sell furniture after someone's sold a house to someone else, so checking the party finder is the only way to know if someone's gonna buy your stuff. As it stands, housing is just a toy for the very rich that adds little to the average person's enjoyment. Apparently you think that's fine, though, and you call people who want houses selfish.

Holy shit dude! You're like a huge bundle of bad opinions! Not only do you trundle into every thread to complain about cleric stance, but right beneath the surface are just awful ideas about other player's enjoyment of the game. I don't think that's a coincidence, though. They're the same thing: People should do things the way I think they should, and those who don't are selfish and bad people.