How would the playerbase feel about buying a housing plot from the MogStation?

[Rinuko]

I can actually see SE doing something like this with future housing. In order to buy a plot, you need to first by a token off of the Mogstation. The reasoning behind this will be to limit the amount of players that can buy a house and somehow ease the burden on their servers. The token will be tradeable too.

You know that going turn into actual RMT. Person A buy token for real money. Person B buy it from person A in PF for Gil

[Lildragora]

You know that going turn into actual RMT. Person A buy token for real money. Person B buy it from person A in PF for Gil

If they add it to the mogstation, it would have to be a in game trade-able token. It's the same thing when looking at other games and you see things like token items for game time. By definition: Real-Money Trade, or RMT for short, refers to the practice of exchanging in-game goods or services for real-world cash. Such goods and services commonly include gil, powerleveling, and even entire accounts and characters.

They already have shown they do not care about RMT because they have a cash shop which is very much RMT (in game resources such as mounts, outfits, dyes, jump potions (essentially a character) ect for money), the difference is it supports the parent company and not a third party.

While this game SHOULD NOT have a cash shop because it is sub based, it does and as such SE actively partakes in RMT. Something like a housing token would be the only way to go forward with a mogstation house. The goal of the token is to provide a in game house, not make gil. That is just a potential outcome.

[Seoulstar]

Lets not give them ideas. As a person who generally doesn't care about what's there..even I think that would be a very bad idea.

[MrsFluffyButt]

No facking chance, it'd be the last straw for me if they did.

[Indefiinable]

I did chuckle a bit, walking through the brand new housing area on my server and seeing it still completely empty.

I realize most are waiting for the price to hit its lowest and all, but it does make me giggle. All that bark for a new area and no bites thus far.

Wish they would just scrap this dumb housing and use the storage space for something else. My "neighbors" are barely ever around as is.

You can't purchase plots in the new area yet. We believe they will be available 4.1 but no official word yet. Wait till 2 hours after they go live and they will be completely full

[Ashgarth]

SE seems more than eager to capitalize on gameplay problems solving them via Mogstation cashgrabs, just look at retainers.

[Kallera]

SE seems more than eager to capitalize on gameplay problems solving them via Mogstation cashgrabs, just look at retainers.

It's a behavior we should not support.

[OwlBlackX]

I hated if players took all houses in wards. I late buy house from own gils.

Would nice SE make more many wards than 12

[Alleo]

I am thankful that the post against this idea as the most likes. I feared that some might be just too frustrated about owning no houses that they would chose such an option.

Doing this would free at least one plot! Mine. Because that would be the last straw to stop playing this game. We already get more and more stuff in the cash shop and yet even with all the cash shop, the launch was horrible, less content instead of more and so on.

If they get away with doing something like that in a P2P game, then I am quite sure that it will not take much longer and you have whole raids and other important things in there.

What we should do: Let our voice be heard! Lets not forget about the housing situation and ask SE about it all the time, or discuss it in this forum. Even if they dont change this, we can at least say that we tried our best and that they cant just ignore it forever.

[Chalbee]

I think I would be amenable to having a system to reserve a plot on the mog station with your gil. i.e. log in, system verifies you have the gil, then you register for an open plot and then actually go and buy it when you log in. Idk enough about how mogstation and player data interact to know if that's possible, but it would be an improvement over the mad free for all we have now.