The demand for houses is too high and stock is too low... then what?...

[Velvet_Xioyin]

A reddit user once claimed that he treated his ingame house like a vacation house and that he didnt want the demolishing to happen faster cause he would want to come back to it when he want

In one way, it did make sense to treat the ingame house in such a way as an inactive player but the result is detrimental for the rest of the community who wants to get a house and it serves no use for Square Enix other than making the community raise the pitch forks and demanding more housing updates and thus costing Square Enix money because they need to expand the wards AGAIN

However, normally in the real world you'd still be expected to pay tax for your house even if you don't use it, and if you do not pay the ownership tax your land could be claimed by a thirdparty or the government. but in FFXIV there is no such thing that i am aware of and in direct result the wards simply become ghost towns because there's no long term penalty for owning a house? hmm...?

[Velvet_Xioyin]

Sure there is the demolishing of inactive houses but there's also the ghost accounts who just log in and enter their house and leave and never come back... If anything those ghost accounts sounds like RMT affiliation to me... might be worth keeping an eye on. But hey that's just silly conspiracy.

[MomomiMomi]

Read this three times and I could find neither a discussion topic, a question or a suggestion.

[StouterTaru]

Read this three times and I could find neither a discussion topic, a question or a suggestion.

It's easy to miss, but it's there:

there's no long term penalty for owning a house? hmm...?

We need more penalties in this game for content.

[saberchic]

No taxing houses please. The system is strict enough as it is. I want a house too, but it's getting ridiculous.

[Knahli]

Well.... what about paying real money to keep your home? Not as much as a month's subscription but somewhere in between to show that you're still interested in keeping your home without playing the game. At least that way the inactive players continue to contribute something to the game.

Edit:
People misunderstood. I am talking about a slightly cheaper alternative to maintaining house ownership with an inactive account without resubscribing to the game for a whole month or more.

[Atoli]

Wow....just wow.
I know you all want a house, and I wanted one for a long time as well, but this is getting ridiculous.

[Vircon]

Well.... what about paying real money to keep your home? Not as much as a month's subscription but somewhere in between to show that you're still interested in keeping your home without playing the game. At least that way the inactive players continue to contribute something to the game.

You're already paying millions of your hard-earned gil on a house and you expect people to pay even MORE money just to maintain it in addition to your subscription? This is a video game and not real life. Think about that from a house owner's perspective. You have to be subbed to the game and enter it at the minimum once every least 45 days to keep a house. That is the long term penalty.

[RoseOfTheRaven]

As I've said before and will say again. Housing is not something needed to progress in the game. It is 98% aesthetic. The ONLY real use of it (personal) is gardening..which u can get those of the mb if u really need it and chocobo stable which I barely see anyone use as is. Free Companies have the airship which makes it more useful to them.
Also why the heck should we have to pay to keep a house we worked hard to earn in the first place? We are already hit with stupid teleport fees. And taxing for a house wouldn't solve anything. Ghosts would log, pay tax, and leave all the same.
The real money payment has already been suggested and again, won't fix anything. Rich kids will pay and buy it up all the same whether real money or ingame (You've heard of pay to win yes?)
IMO they should abolish personal housing completely or make it fully instanced and do away with wards for it. Leave the wards to the FC houses.

[Knahli]

You're already paying millions of your hard-earned gil on a house and you expect people to pay even MORE money just to maintain it in addition to your subscription? This is a video game and not real life. Think about that from a house owner's perspective. You have to be subbed to the game and enter it at the minimum once every least 45 days to keep a house. That is the long term penalty.

No. I am talking about people who want to take a break from the game for 45+ days but don't want to lose their house. I suggested they could pay through the mogstation to extend their allotted inactivity allowance without having to pay for a full 30 days subscription that they have no intent of using.