House Payments

[Saraphin]

Allow people to pay in advance. This would be very helpful when it comes to real life emergencies. Let's say you have to stop playing because you have to switch jobs, and money is tight. By paying the rent for your house ahead of time, you could cement your hold on your plot for up to 6 months if you needed to, while your sub goes inactive, and you tend to your real life issues. It would be a good way to help people that know they might not be able to play, or even afford the game for a short time, but allow them to keep the house they worked so hard to obtain.

This would fully be a work around of the Auto-Demo, which was put in due to housing being at such a premium as it is. I cannot get behind this.

Also: most people that do have homes in game have scraped together the Gil, be it personal or FC gil, just to own one, adding fees has been shown to be something that the FFXIV community does not want for housing.

[Tempest222]

People already pay a monthly fee for owning a house, their sub. I don’t see how this would help anything tbh. Plus there have to be people who own houses who are not mega crafter/gatherers who were just barely able to afford to buy after saving for while and who would never be able to come anywhere near paying such high prices per month. I’ve been playing the game a few months and still only have shy of 1mil gil and I don’t see that number skyrocketing at any point as I don’t see myself seriously getting into crafting/gathering and I’d rather do other things with my login time than find ways to grind gil. Obviously nothing against players who do play in ways that net them enormous amounts of gil, but there have to be others like me who just don’t have deep pockets like that, and who play in different ways.