Quote Originally Posted by Cherie View Post
The part about the transfer system. It was one of the live letters. I watched that live letter. If I recall correctly, he was answering a question about what would need to be done before Ishgard housing would be ready to be released and the dev responded that he thought they should make some sort of transfer system first so that people wouldn't be sad that they already had a house....etc I mean, I think you guys are right that they might do it, but at the moment, unless I'm mistaken, the dev in the live letter (i don't recall which dev) had just said it was something he'd like to do or prefer to do first but... then again I don't speak japanese and someone was translating it for me so maybe I didn't grasp his meaning completely.

One thing I disagree, housing *is* a gil sink and I believe it was always supposed to be. The refund on auto demolished housing was some kind of compromise they came up with, but initially there were supposed to be gil sinks in the game.... If there weren't, where do you all think the gil goes? It just keeps accumulating constantly. I mean, you don't even have to sell on the market board to get money, there are quests, roulettes, monster drops, challenge logs, gil comes from everywhere and it goes *nowhere* for the most part.... That just leads to inflation and that is why stuff is so expensive on the marketboard on many servers at the moment. Gil is going down in value as a currency between players cause many people have millions they are sitting on if not more. Gil sinks are a mechanic to prevent it from getting out of hand but I agree it seems SE is changing their mind on that....so I have no idea what they plan to do about inflation... Gil is only going to further decrease in value until you are paying 500k just for a single raid food....
You're missing the part where an 80% refund on your investment would still be a 20% gil sink, which would add up over time through consecutive buyers.

As it is now most people that have houses are holding onto them even if they no longer want them because they're not legitimately allowed to sell them and they won't give them up if they get nothing back. These plots are sitting stagnant so the only gil they've removed from the economy is the initial investment from the owner.

Now, if players were able to sell unwanted plots back to the server for an 80% refund they would be more likely to actually give them up, thus 20% of their investment has been removed PLUS 100% of the investment of whoever buys it next.

If players had more encouragement to give up unused plots there would actually be MORE gil removed from the economy than under the current system simply due to plots being bought more often.