Apartments need Rent

[Almagnus1]

The comment was about SE not any other game, they all have their foibles. I played WoW from Vanilla release for 8 yrs and know it well.

Then you should also know that (for the most part) the SE dev team are leaps and bounds ahead of where the Blizzard dev team currently is.

[Jojoya]

Then you should also know that (for the most part) the SE dev team are leaps and bounds ahead of where the Blizzard dev team currently is.

Someone who quit WoW around the start of MoP would have no idea what a mess the current game is. Heck, I don't know from personal experience either and I was playing until end of Legion. I do know that one of my friends who also plays this game was a dedicated WoW fanboy (would put a WoW patch ahead of expansion release here) and about 3 months ago went "I can't take this anymore", cancelled his WoW subscription then uninstalled the game.

But then none of that has anything to do with the housing situation here.

Does the game need more gil sinks? Yes. But if the goal is to increase apartment popularity while reducing demand for houses, attaching a gil sink to apartments would be counterproductive because it would only reduce the demand for apartments. Increasing the cost of something already considered less than desirable by many does not make it more desirable.

Gil sinks are not "punishment" and it's ridiculous to refer to them as such. The game gives us gil for playing through most content. We in turn decide how we want to spend it. Either we're willing to pay the price to get the optional item being offered, or we don't. There is no punishment involved.