Quote Originally Posted by MaybeOliverB View Post
How is your suggestion any better? If anything, there would be more competition because no one would need to put in any sort of effort. So yeah, if your goal is to upset even more players, keep on promoting your idea. If it isn't, then you're just oblivious.

How is 3-4M not a lot. A new player will have almost 1.5M by the time they complete ARR. Given how much gil is around right now and the rewards from the 3 following expansions, anyone who has picked up this game recently can afford a house. Your vision of gil making is incredibly narrow and short-sighted as you absolutely do not need to rely on crafting or farm content to acquire a few millions. This isn't 2.0 when gil was scarce outside of legacy servers.

I don't think players who are so lazy about this game and can barely come up with a few millions, despite that the game is throwing money at them, should be in a position to have a shot at housing when there are plenty of players who deserve it more than them based on effort alone.

You want the POTD mount? You grind.
You want Savage gear? You grind.
You want to level all the classes? You grind.
You want to hit gil cap? You grind.
You want a house? You grind.

This is an MMO. You are supposed to be rewarded based on the time and effort you invested in the game. If the prices go up, there will be less competition. That means less time spent using either automation or manually clicking on a placard. Isn't that what you are asking for? Or am I mistaken and you would you rather have players spend most of their free time being miserable due to the low entry fees to housing when they could actually play the game and have a good time while acquiring gil to acquire a house...
Hang on, are you comparing potd/savage to getting a house in game? In theory anyone can run potd to floor 200/farm for ponies or clear savage content- I say in theory because there are many who won't, but it's still an option to try. At any time, really since people farm old savage raids they couldn't clear before at higher levels for loot.

So how does trying to get a house when there are zero plots available compare to running content that is open to and can include everyone? Is there anything other than seasonal event items (and pvp garo coming up) that really lock you out of getting X item with gil later? Seasonal loot might even be a stretch here as SE makes it available on the mogstation later.