Plot Procurement or Punishment?

[Shadow_Vos]

Haven't they also stated that they are changing it in Endwalker?

[Jojoya]

Haven't they also stated that they are changing it in Endwalker?

No. They said they've heard the player concerns about RMT and FC exploits in housing, and are taking various housing related suggestions like lotteries into consideration.

Saying something is under consideration isn't the same as saying "we are definitely doing this".

We can turn the dial back to 2018 when they told us that adding apartment size options was under consideration, and look at 2019 when they said that making alts automatic tenants of any private house owned by a character on the same world and same account was something else they might do. Neither has happened, nor been mentioned since.

At this point, it's probably better not to expect any changes to housing next expansion beyond the addition of Ishgard and the usual new furnishings.

If this was done, 10 bots would show up, click that often, and then be replaced with 10 more bots.
The person with the bot farm would have 10 times the chance you do.

Where do you and other people get the idea that bot farms are out to buy up all the houses?

What "botting" occurs in housing is usually an otherwise normal player desperate for a house that resorts to using an auto-click script to do the placard camping, not some bot consortium.

There might be RMT occurring in housing but it's not going to be getting done by the bot farms that have far more efficient and reliable ways of making gil to sell for real money. If they did see housing as a good source for RMT, there would be far more placard camping going on than what we see.

Now it would be true to say that the player using a standard subscription and has leveled the 8 characters allowed per world sufficiently to be able to purchase would have a much better chance of getting a house than the player who only has one or two character on that world with the limited click system. Even then, I doubt most players would do it because they usually want the house on a specific character they consider their main and not a character they wouldn't otherwise play.