Housing Ownership System Abuse

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I'm interested to learn what the REAL IDEAL amount of houses to own per person are per the pitchfork mobs on these forums.

How about SE actually makes the restrictions laid out at https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/ permanent, and then extends those onto all the grandfathered in houses after a grace period?

For that matter, any FC that has less than 3 members should lose their house (but done with enough time that it's akin to the AFK timer and not immediate).

So does that mean the players with 5+ service accounts now can own 10+ houses comfortably without people whining and demonizing them?

As long as each account is compliant with the restrictions linked above, I'm fine with that. That means operating a ward is going to take 15 accounts, which is going to work out to be like $2250/year for the entire ward. FYI I'm using my sub cost which is roughly $75/six months or $150/year to estimate this. If someone wants to be a whale and waste their money that way - it's funding FFXIV regardless so we might as well let them.

That also means that it's in SE's best interest to retroactively enforce the restrictions because right now you can tie up a ward with only 2 accounts due to stuff being grandfathered in - which means only $300/year.