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

[MomomiMomi]

If there is one plot and three players who are going to buy it, one being the player who can't get to the plot it time, one being the greedy bastard and one being a cute little miqote girl who wants to start her own flower garden, it's better if the greedy bastard buys it because then the player is able to buy the plot from them. Now I know that it is heart crushing that the little girl got beaten to it by the greedy bastard, but it leaves the plot open for whoever is willing to put in the effort to pay the greedy bill. It ain't nice, yet it's capitalism.

And then the little girl who really wanted her flower garden pays the greedy bastard triple the cost of the house, then pays for the house, and gets her garden.

What was gained? Nothing for anyone but the greedy person.

[Archaell]

And then the little girl who really wanted her flower garden pays the greedy bastard triple the cost of the house, then pays for the house, and gets her garden.

What was gained? Nothing for anyone but the greedy person.

The girl got house, the greedy person got gil. Two players are happy. 2 happy people > 1 happy person... tho it changes nothing for the homeless you :P

Now in all seriousness. Higher price is decreasing the amount of players being able to afford the plot and so increasing your chance of buying the plot - if you have enough gil.

The greedy player is not changing the game much, the plot is still there - they are just making it cost a little bit more. (ironically fixing SE's mistake of keeping the pricing so low when the demand is so high and plots limited).

As I said before buying houses is fair for everybody. The person who gets to the plot first can do whatever they want to do with it even if you dislike what they do with it.

[Gallus]

Part of the reason we got here is because of people's greed in regards to houses...and now you are asking those who brought us here not to greed again. Sounds like a very poor plan xD.

[Archaell]

Part of the reason we got here is because of people's greed in regards to houses...and now you are asking those who brought us here not to greed again. Sounds like a very poor plan xD.

If you are talking about OP, they are asking SE to block the house owners from being able to buy apartments for a week. That's doing something evil on the premise of doing good.

In my opinion Yoshida learnt his lesson and the apartment space is flexible enough to be multiplied based on the demand (in the best case scenario on server by server basis and without waiting for patches).

[Gallus]

If you are talking about OP, they are asking SE to block the house owners from being able to buy apartments for a week. That's doing something evil on the premise of doing good.

In my opinion Yoshida learnt his lesson and the apartment space is flexible enough to be multiplied based on the demand (in the best case scenario on server by server basis and without waiting for patches).

Ah, sorry, didn't read the topic and assumed he was talking about asking others not to buy :P. Totally my fault. I think there are enough apartments tho.

[Cakekizyy]

And then the little girl who really wanted her flower garden pays the greedy bastard triple the cost of the house, then pays for the house, and gets her garden.

What was gained? Nothing for anyone but the greedy person.

Greedy person gets reported and banned.