Why isn't housing priced higher? (why is housing random luck)

[Azurymber]

My point is having a part of the game locked out to the -MAJORITY- of players is pointless.

With the current system, people buy a house, then resell it to someone for triple+ what they paid
That person paying 4x the value of the house is often getting their gil from RMT (e.g. no crafting/gathering leveled, but suddenly have 200mil)

The current system promotes random-luck and RMT activity. That seems kinda inefficient.

I'm in favour of a system where anyone who puts the effort in, can get housing.
As opposed to a few "lucky people" getting housing, or having an RMT-based housing black market.

[LaylaTsarra]

I'm in favour of a system where anyone who puts the effort in, can get housing.
As opposed to a few "lucky people" getting housing, or having an RMT-based housing black market.

Spending the money on mogstation isn't the solution. There are apartments coming. One has to see what those are and if they are at least something the community would like. Asking people to pay real money will also lock people out and will simply give those with money the opportunity to buy things others can't afford. That isn't fair either.

[AnaviAnael]

Spending the money on mogstation isn't the solution. There are apartments coming.

At the rate SE goes, apartments will be here in 2019. xD

[CuteWhisper]

My point is having a part of the game locked out to the -MAJORITY- of players is pointless.

With the current system, people buy a house, then resell it to someone for triple+ what they paid
That person paying 4x the value of the house is often getting their gil from RMT (e.g. no crafting/gathering leveled, but suddenly have 200mil)

The current system promotes random-luck and RMT activity. That seems kinda inefficient.

I'm in favour of a system where anyone who puts the effort in, can get housing.
As opposed to a few "lucky people" getting housing, or having an RMT-based housing black market.

Now that's something I can agree on. They need to fix this issue but not putting wards on mog station, that's ridiculous. Maybe they could do it like Wildstar for personal housing and keep wards for free company houses.