So, housing mafia instantly bought most of small houses...

[Greven]

Are they reportable? If yes do so.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

it's not set up in the game to be a traded merchandise at all.
Paying a guy to hope he leaves so that you can then purchase is just people being silly and greedy in a game where money no longer has much value at all

Neither are Marriage rings on the cash shop, but hell they sold nicely back in the day.

You are missing the point completely, and its anything but greed, call it roleplaying. I roleplay an skilled merchant who sees and capitalizes on the oportunities he sees inside the bounderies of the law, i play following the rules and i belive in a good handshake to seal deals.

And well, you are right about something, gil holds not much value at all, i belive that most rich players would agree with me that gil is more of a score than a resource, you really just want to see it go higher and higher for the sake of it, not for a particular, productive reason.

My personal goal is the first 999,999,999 retainer for next year. If selling houses to the people who wants one gets me closer to that, well, thats what ill be doing. A reality check: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVhousingMarket

[CUTS3R]

it's not set up in the game to be a traded merchandise at all.
Paying a guy to hope he leaves so that you can then purchase is just people being silly and greedy in a game where money no longer has much value at all

Oh so people finding a new way of making money are being greedy? I call them smart. Crafters overpricing their sh*t when most of the time it cost them nothing is what being greedy is.
People actually having to pay millions for the plot in the first place and then hoping they will get a buyer, aren't .

[SpookyGhost]

I think 1 house restricted to 1 character per server is fair. Why would you need a personal house on all your alts on the same server? Surely one is enough. I don't think housing is meant to be traded around - it's just an unfortunate loophole in the system (one that, admittedly, should've been obvious) that has created a weird market. This is why instance housing would've worked so much better. :V

[OmegaStrongtan]

Thats pretty clever

[AlphaFox]

I have my own house but I do believe there should be a limit on account or per server but also making so alts can visit or be given housing right on the property. Have to admit this is something those with tons of gil were waiting for to buy up and flip for more profit. Hopefully with luck the expansions on housing will allow people to get their homes in the future

[Belhi]

I'm sure its called a lot of things but its still greedy. Your basically making harder for others to obtain items by artificially making a shortage worse and then creating a situation where anyone who wants the property you have cant buy it from you but has to pay you just to leave so they can buy it normally. Your not even selling them the property.

It might be smart, it might be good planning. It might be Roleplaying. Its still greedy.

[Urthdigger]

Sadly, they could make 50,000 wards and still not have enough houses due to people buying up multiples.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

I'm sure its called a lot of things but its still greedy. Your basically making harder for others to obtain items by artificially making a shortage worse and then creating a situation where anyone who wants the property you have cant buy it from you but has to pay you just to leave so they can buy it normally. Your not even selling them the property.

It might be smart, it might be good planning. It might be Roleplaying. Its still greedy.

Im part of a linkshell called the Virtue of Greed. Just on point.

[seraphuslol]

Sadly, they could make 50,000 wards and still not have enough houses due to people buying up multiples.

But doing that would devalue property, which means people wouldn't buy multiples just for resale.

economics. *ancient aliens hands*