Worst housing system I have ever seen

[Jojoya]

I wasn't unable to maintain the house, it was a choice to do something else. When I did the home is where the heart is quest, I said I'm getting a house and put everything on hold to accomplish that goal.

The quest doesn't say you're getting a house. It said that houses are being sold to adventurers without going into detail about how to get one unless you take the time to talk to the Resident Caretaker as the quest suggests. There was no stated guarantee that you'd be able to get one.

I'm glad you did manage to get one after you made it your goal to do so.

But you still haven't answered my question about what you would have done if there was a monthly fee required to retain the house at the time you were ready to purchase. Would it have influenced your decision so you didn't buy or would you have accepted it was going to be that little bit of extra effort to keep the house?

Just because someone new comes along that can play a lot, doesn't mean that veterans who put a lot of time in prior should be walked over because they may not be able to do so now. The whole just because I can play right now and you can't I should get priority is nonsense.

It's not nonsense when a limited resource is involved.

If houses didn't demo, the majority of them would be owned by people who stopped playing the game years ago. Those of us who came later would be out of luck, stuck staring at unused houses owned by people who don't play and likely won't be coming back.

There has to be a form of demolition when housing isn't unlimited, and that means people who have quit playing need to lose out so those who are playing get their chance.

I've gone from that small house, to a medium to a large, as well as geared most classes in the game hardly investing any gil from day one.

So then you know better than to say you'd have to stop playing the rest of the game to focus on making gil if housing had a monthly fee.

The game throws a lot of gil at you passively through normal game play, and that normal game play presents even more opportunities to make gil if you take an extra half hour a week to convert the tomestone and other items you get into gil.