A Better Way for Houses Up For Grabs

[tdb]

Yes but this is not real life where others get ahead due to favorable family lineage, country of birth, etc.

Yeah, instead this is a video game where some people got ahead by getting into the game early and doing things which now are nowhere near as profitable. Crafting in particular has been made a lot more accessible, which also means prices for crafted items have gone down. It hasn't been even two weeks since 5.4 and Exarchic gear is already selling below 100k (for some pieces at least) - cheap enough that I consider crafting it for sale a waste of my time. There was a very short window (a couple of days) where the new crafted gear sold at high prices, and I made about 35 million gil from it because I was prepared. Others probably made even more. How quickly do you figure you can make 35 million gil now that that window has closed?

[Catstab]

It strongly favors those players who have hundreds of millions of gil. Those who can barely scrape together three million for a small plot at current prices would have no chance.

That's the point. There aren't enough for everyone, and if you think 40m is a lot of money you don't need a house.

I made about 35 million gil [in less than 2 weeks]

It isn't hard for established players to make this sort of money. You just made enough for almost 12 small houses in about 12 days. Almost all players can afford houses as it stands. Quite clearly, anyone who deserves to be in the 20% of players who gets housing can afford that price.

[Mavrias]

Yeah, instead this is a video game where some people got ahead by getting into the game early and doing things which now are nowhere near as profitable. Crafting in particular has been made a lot more accessible, which also means prices for crafted items have gone down. It hasn't been even two weeks since 5.4 and Exarchic gear is already selling below 100k (for some pieces at least) - cheap enough that I consider crafting it for sale a waste of my time. There was a very short window (a couple of days) where the new crafted gear sold at high prices, and I made about 35 million gil from it because I was prepared. Others probably made even more. How quickly do you figure you can make 35 million gil now that that window has closed?

Yes, someone with more time and energy put in is going to make gil faster, thats how earning anything works. There are still other markets to take advantage of that give good gil, I listed several in the post you partially quoted. If you want an example specifically for crafting, potions and raid food are still going for a pretty penny and will be for at least the next few months and will likely see another spike when the new ultimate comes out. I've made several hundred million in the past week alone, just from pots and raid food along with other non crafting sources.