Is it time to rework housing timers?

[Dzian]

Sorry, but there has never been any actual statement by an employee on these forums, on the lodestone or in the FAQs ingame. You can't take a live translation seriously or an inquiry to one single gm as factual evidence regarding the "legality" of trading houses. Once again, SE has nothing to gain from interfering with people trading houses unless someone gets scammed. If there was an actual change in the rules regarding housing, please show the lodestone page or the part in the ToS where it says so (ps: there isn't).

Btw, house trading is surging on Balmung because of the upcoming datacenter shuffle. If you think this specific timer is preventing anyone from acquiring more than 2 houses on a congested server, there is probably a flower next to your name ingame.

http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...la=1&kid=68216

It seems quite hit and miss. If you're a player selling a plot you no longer want or require to another player the devs geenrally seem ok with that and wont take any action against you.. If however you're buying plots specifically for the purpose of resale or flipping for exuberant sums of money then they do seem to take a stronger stance as that does fall within the definition of disrupting other players gameplay experience..

[MaybeOliverB]

It seems quite hit and miss. If you're a player selling a plot you no longer want or require to another player the devs geenrally seem ok with that and wont take any action against you.. If however you're buying plots specifically for the purpose of resale or flipping for exuberant sums of money then they do seem to take a stronger stance as that does fall within the definition of disrupting other players gameplay experience..

You can't really define what is an exuberant sum of money, other than gil cap and beyond... and even then...

Keep in mind these were the original prices when housing came out:


You couldn't really find billionaires back in ARR, unlike now. As far as I'm being concerned, purchasing a small plot on a crowded server for the original price is far from being ripped off. Some people have had those houses since the very beginning.

I've advertised plenty of times in PF over the years and I've yet to have a discussion with a GM regarding my little collection. The only time I got into "trouble" regarding housing was when I was advertising the sale of my neighbors small FC house in early HW for 5 times the retail value. The GM made no comment regarding the advertised price, but he did say I was disturbing my neighbors' experience because of all the /tells he was receiving.