RENT: A Better Housing Solution

[AnduinLynn]

How is housing and minions related at all? Everyone has an equal opportunity to earn the minion, but once housing plots are full that is the end of the line unless one happens to go inactive and free or one is sold at outrageous prices.

It would be incredibly simple to make a small amount of money for a rent fee which would provide many benefits. I feel like people with houses in this thread are just happy they got to the plot first, and could care less about anyone else. It's that bias viewpoint which is stopping a lot of people from understanding how much this would help, and how little effort on their part it'd take.

Invest a bit more thought into it besides "omg they want my money!! omg I can't go inactive and keep an empty plot with my name on it!!"

[Lexia]

Funny how everyone with a house are the one's against it; lack of perspective maybe?

Not really cause I posted this earlier (along with another poster some where in this thread)

I own a house and I could care less if they decided that I needed to enter it once every 2 weeks...

I think the main group that against housing timers and stuff are the people that want to take "breaks" or use their house as some sort of trophy and never enter it.

[WinterLuna]

yeah i can imagine thats why i worked my butt off to get 1 :3 only people who should be blamed for people missing out on a house is only SE team in charge of that aspect not the players theres a housing update anyways and watch all the people whinge they dont want an apartment they want a house etc etc etc

There are also people who work their butt off, if not more than you did, who can't have a house because there's none available.

This isn't 'give me your house right now if you don't log in every day!' But it's 'if you're not even using your house for weeks on end others deserve a chance to get one'.

Not to mention players are paying ridiculous amounts of money like our FC did because players are buying the houses and selling them for a stupid price.

[Velisra]

How is housing and minions related at all? Everyone has an equal opportunity to earn the minion, but once housing plots are full that is the end of the line unless one happens to go inactive and free or one is sold at outrageous prices.

It seems like you missed my point.

The point is, if there were housing plots available for everyone from the beginning (like everyone can obtain gear, minions, mounts, etc) then everyone would have an equal opportunity to partake in that part of the game and there would be no issues.

Again, the bottom line is that SE needs to fix the mess they made with housing so that all players have an equal opportunity to play that part of the game.

Maybe invest a bit more time to read what I wrote.

[raela]

You won't spare a small fee to prevent misuse and promote the housing system as far as activity is concerned? I'm sure you can imagine what it is like to want a house, and how would you feel if you were locked out of this system? I'm sure you can part with your small amount of precious gil so that Joe and his FC of friends can finally make a house with the funds they've saved together.

Er.. The house was expensive to begin with, so why are we assuming a small tax will at all be a barrier to resellers? They clearly have a way to transfer gil to the alts.

[SigmaOZ]

@ OP

Yeah, I don't like your idea, it just sounds like another time counter for me, SE already screwed up by auto-demolishing properties after 45 days, I loved the time when I would own my house forever, as long as the game existed, without worrying about taking a very long vacation anywhere I wanted, now I can't because they'd take my house away!...

Do note that I've been subscribed continuously since I began my Eorzean adventure and I'm not planning to take any breaks in the future unless of course the game became irrelevant but that is up to the developers!...

Said otherwise, I like owning my stuff forever and without conditions, 45 days auto-demolition and rent are not something I would ever consider!...

[StouterTaru]

Invest a bit more thought into it besides "omg they want my money!! omg I can't go inactive and keep an empty plot with my name on it!!"

The money isn't the issue, it's the annoyance of going to that NPC to pay the rent, keeping track of when you last paid, and that 45 day reclaim is pretty quick to begin with, the 2 week suggestion is horrid.

Then there's the core of reclamation that shouldn't exist; basing it on game activity instead of account activity. If someone isn't paying to play the game any more, that should be the basis, not going in the front door or talking to a NPC in game. See the thousands of threads on need/greed in dungeon loot. "It's not fair that they get to roll need when I would do something that I think is more important than their glamour/desynth/GC seals. What I think is more important is all that should matter to anyone." This comes down to the same argument, "They aren't using the house the way I think they should, so I deserve it more."

[LaylaTsarra]

"They aren't using the house the way I think they should, so I deserve it more."

Yeah it all boils down to I DON'T HAVE IT and I WANT YOURS. Pretty sad really. A PAYING SUB is all that should be needed.

[WinterLuna]

But what about the guy who has an automobile accident that causes him to lose both parents, a pregnant wife, 2 kids, both of his legs, feeling in the left side of his body, and is hospitalized for 8 weeks.

How can that guy find any ray of sunshine if his video game house is taken away while he was in the hospital?

Can't tell if sarcasm >_>

[DragonFlyy]

Personally, I'd rather they scrap the whole system the way it is and go to fully instanced housing like many other MMOs. That way, everyone can have one because if you (or anyone else) isn't in the house, it's in a rest state and not loaded into memory thus not eating resources. Then a rental system would be fine, if after I don't pay one month, my house is just perma locked until I pay for it again.