Please consider: Apartments to those that don't own a house first.

[MomomiMomi]

One of the issues could be that the plots have certain price set by the game while the actual price is much higher due to the limited amount of plots and the gil in such amount being easily available. Then the players who achieve the in-game price feel like they are being cheated by the players selling the houses for profit, because they think that were it not for the reseller they could have bought it for the original price.

I don't think so. It could happen of course, but more likely the plot would have been bought by some other player and being lost forever.

There's a fault in your logic. If nobody had bought it for the act of reselling the house, then someone would have bought it because they actually wanted it at its game designated price. What you're actually doing is screwing that person out of money, or a house.

[Archaell]

There's a fault in your logic. If nobody had bought it for the act of reselling the house, then someone would have bought it because they actually wanted it at its game designated price. What you're actually doing is screwing that person out of money, or a house.

Alright let's say that nobody would buy houses for profit.

What happens next?

People are going to complain that some RPers buy houses for their alts.

Let's say that there are no alts.

Then people are going to complain that person x does not decorate their house and just has it.

Let's say that all the people would decorate their houses.

Then people are going to complain that person x does not spend time in their house...

There would always be something. Yet in the case of resale the house is still on the market while in the other instances it's lost.

btw. All the players have the same chance to buy a house when the new wards are added. The last time that happened I took a day off from work to buy a mansion in Mist... I got stuck in Q and had to settle for a medium house in Goblet. Was I mad about the Q? Well of course. But it was fair race so I had to get over it.

[Harlow]

Alright let's say that nobody would buy houses for profit.

What happens next?

People are going to complain that some RPers buy houses for their alts.

Let's say that there are no alts.

Then people are going to complain that person x does not decorate their house and just has it.

Let's say that all the people would decorate their houses.

Then people are going to complain that person x does not spend time in their house...

There would always be something. Yet in the case of resale the house is still on the market while in the other instances it's lost.

Disregarding that these scenarios are all wild speculation on your part they do touch on how poorly planned the housing system was in the first place. I'm not sure why they settled on a housing system that had such a small and finite amount of homes. Was it because they thought that none of their servers would be overpopulated? Did they not expect the game to be as popular as it is? Why did it take them this long to finally come up with a system that's been in other MMOs for well over a decade now instead of just starting with apartments?

Considering that we are now forever trapped in this broken housing system though, yes, I'd rather have a person that will actually use the house in some way buy it instead of a person that has bought the house solely to resell it to a person that will actually use it at a grossly inflated price. These people aren't the FFXIV equivalent of Robin Hood by stealing from the slow to give to the rich. Please stop trying to paint the people that do this as somehow being philanthropists when they're doing exactly nothing to help out anyone but themselves.