About Plot selling

[DeeColon]

Trying to punish players for selling plots to each other is just a poor bandaid for the housing system itself, without the option it just makes it worse, since some people, me included, aren't going to just give it up for some stranger if they can't get anything out of it at all.

I was up at 3am on Christmas day waiting for housing reclaim to hit and sat for around 13 - 14 hours in Mists waiting for houses to pop checking back on the game occasionally, I managed to get one, 30 minutes later I saw there were still a lot of small plots available in some wards so decided "why not", and had an FC mate help me trade gil over to my alt character and bought a second house that day. I haven't been using the houses as much as I had expected to so now my alt's house especially is just sitting idle, useless to the game aside from being a place I occasionally teleport to to use the Mender to repair.

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[DeeColon]

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Now if I'm not allowed to sell it, I'm keeping it permanently since I have no incentive whatsoever to give it up. For the amount of time and effort it took to get the house I'm not going to allow it to be reclaimed by the server to get a small sum of gil back either, 4 - 5 mil is a joke for what it takes to actually get a house in this game.

So then, there is one player with two houses, one currently (nearly) unused in a great spot in Mists that's going to stay pseudo-vacant until the end of time because according to SE I'm not allowed to get rid of it in a way that doesn't feel like it hurts me. I don't consider it to be greedy of me to be unwilling to take a hit for a stranger on the internet I'll probably never meet knowing maybe one day I actually will find something to do with it, but instead of being able to just sell it and have it out of my hands permanently to not need to think about anymore, it's stuck.

[Judah_Brandt]

You pressed a button in a video game and now think you deserve more than 80% of your imaginary game currency back for it, and then instead of just accepting that you would rather either gouge another player or just hoard it on a character you rarely use it on. That, um, is the absolute epitomy of greed. It doesn't harm you. At all. You perceive harm because you feel entitlement. Because you're greedy. You bought a second house after you all ready had one. Because you're greedy. You admittedly don't use it, but don't want to give it up. Because you're greedy.

TL;DR - You're greedy.

[Mael-bess]

TL;DR - You're greedy.

This. So much this.

[Lyci]

My ingame wife wanted to buy a house for us, she really tried to safe alot of gil (she dont allow me to help her <.<), she dont has a high crafter or anything, made gil just by stuff she got from story, leves and then wrote someone who wanted to sell a plot and my wife was like ;-; O_O, just for to release the plot wanted 10mil <.< and it was just a small one...... so 15mil for a small house.....no thanks

[Jetstream_Fox]

My ingame wife wanted to buy a house for us, she really tried to safe alot of gil (she dont allow me to help her <.<), she dont has a high crafter or anything, made gil just by stuff she got from story, leves and then wrote someone who wanted to sell a plot and my wife was like ;-; O_O, just for to release the plot wanted 10mil <.< and it was just a small one...... so 15mil for a small house.....no thanks

Whoever tried to sell you a small house for 15 million was probably the owner of few other houses. On my server we had a player who bought multiple houses and advertised them across the pf. I'm under the impression they were banned but the prices were about the same 10 million for a small 25 million for a medium and 50 for a large.

[Alberel]

You pressed a button in a video game and now think you deserve more than 80% of your imaginary game currency back for it, and then instead of just accepting that you would rather either gouge another player or just hoard it on a character you rarely use it on. That, um, is the absolute epitomy of greed. It doesn't harm you. At all. You perceive harm because you feel entitlement. Because you're greedy. You bought a second house after you all ready had one. Because you're greedy. You admittedly don't use it, but don't want to give it up. Because you're greedy.

TL;DR - You're greedy.

This attitude really isn't helpful in the least. I take it if you logged in to find you had zero gil in your account tomorrow you wouldn't complain right? Because to complain would mean you were feeling "entitlement" to your "imaginary game currency".

The fact is it would be in SE's interests to give players a legitimate means to either sell houses directly to other players or get the relinquished 80% value back at will (not after 45 days). They need to encourage players to give up plots they don't want, and imposing tighter and tighter restrictions on players relinquishing their plots is only going to make the shortage WORSE as they will not willingly give up a plot only to lose the huge investment they put into it.

SE's flip-flopping stance on the issue really hasn't helped either as they have been directly quoted as saying this was fine back when housing first released. They only turned into a crime after they screwed up the auto-demolish so badly and the same people bought every house just to resell them. They SHOULD have put an account limit of one house prior to the demolition.

There is nothing greedy about refusing to give up a plot you saved up to buy when you stand only to lose your gil by doing so. A lot of the people selling their plots legitimately want rid of it for one of any number of good reasons. To give you just a few, they may be: transferring servers, moving house, leaving the game for longer than three months (the auto-reclaimed gil only sits for one month so if you know you'll be gone longer you HAVE to sell it). In these cases the players selling the plot do not WANT to price gouge other players, they simply want to get back the gil they invested. You cannot blame people for that.

If anyone here sounds 'entitled' it is you for demanding players willingly sacrifice their investment just so you can get a house now, now, now. The problem here is NOT the people selling the houses; it's the broken system that doesn't even allow it legitimately in the first place.

[Fyce]

So, according to some people on this thread, if a dude with a private house wants to do a server transfer, he has three choices:
- Wait 45 days for the reclaim system to kick in,
- Transfer immediatly and lose everything,
- Transfer immediatly and get banned because he sold his plot to someone else.

In short terms, no matter what, that guy is screwed.

[Solarra]

Yes, but the problem is you aren't selling your plot to another player you are simply selling the information that you are about to relinquish it which allows them to be ready when the game puts the house up for auction
If Square allowed players to get the 80% back when transferring to another server there would be nothing stopping the transferring player from making a few million extra by taking the 80% and at the same time, advertising the plot for 'sale'.

The whole system needs an overhaul. If supply was adequate then this situation would never have developed. However, until every player who wants a house can get one without resorting to paying twice this gouging is going to continue.
There is already a thread on Reddit where people wanting to 'sell' are being advised how best to avoid getting warnings or bans.

A limit on the number of houses that can be owned by an individual might go some way towards stopping the speculators.

[KaitlanKela]

There's no in-game system to sell your house. The closest thing is the 45 day reclaim, and that's been recent. When you bought your house you did so with the expectation of having no recourse to get that investment back. It is a sunk cost. Now you can even let it idle for 45 days and get 80% back. That's great. Do that.

I'd be for adding a "i want to demolish my house now" button for the 80%, since it's there already. Why force people trying to transfer servers to idle 45 days? Before that system was added, though, I would have said that wanting any money back for it at all is entitled.