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

[Kabzy]

You do realize they have to pay you and then pay the price again right. You don't have the right to sell them. You risk a ban. Now whether or not SE will enforce that strictly is another matter.

I do know that, and my point is that some people have the gil and would be okay with spending that much for a plot. Yeah it does suck for people who aren't that rich, but if SE have made no other options then what exactly do people expect?

The one, somewhat flawed, option of auto-demolition is also on hold. So there literally is no other option at the moment.

[LaylaTsarra]

I do know that, and my point is that some people have the gil and would be okay with spending that much for a plot. Yeah it does suck for people who aren't that rich, but if SE have made no other options then what exactly do people expect?

The one, somewhat flawed, option of auto-demolition is also on hold. So there literally is no other option at the moment.

Well you do have the option to wait. You also have the option to risk a ban if reported and a GM decides it's something they want to do. Now if it's done privately the chances are perhaps small that would happen but if you advertise in party finder you're taking a big risk in my opinion. I wouldn't risk my account for a few million gil.

[Kabzy]

They plan to implement transfers and how that will be done is yet to be seen. Will you be able to upgrade a small to a medium that way? Hard to say.

This feature should have been added before new wards were being released. As it is not, it's not really a solution for anyone at the moment as the likelihood of plots even being available then will be very slim.

[Niwashi]

if SE have made no other options then what exactly do people expect?
The one, somewhat flawed, option of auto-demolition is also on hold. So there literally is no other option at the moment.

Of course you have another option. You have the option of treating housing as it was intended in the first place. You pay for use of a house and in exchange you can use that house for as long as you want. When you're done with it and no longer care about keeping it, then you relinquish the plot. That's it.

A gil sink doesn't consist of paying gil for a while, then getting it all back. It's done by paying gil and not getting it back. Housing prices are suppossed to be an expense, not an investment. That's the reason why you can't directly sell a house to another player, because you're not supposed to be selling it to them at all.

The fact that some players are too greedy to use the system as designed doesn't mean the intended design is any less available. (There are, of course, a lot of other major problems with the design, like why plots are so limited in the first place. But that doesn't invalidate the designed-in "no selling" rule. If anything, it just makes it more necessary.)