Ishgard Housing Details are Out

[dspguy]

House owners already have do pay a tax, its called monthly sub. Unlike other players we cant just take 3 months off without losing our house.

It is genius on SE's end to keep supply low and demand high. Look at this way:

There's about 70 servers. Each server has 4 cities, 24 wards, 60 plots per ward which is 5760 plots per server. Well under the demand of the playerbase. No one wants to lose their house. The vast majority of those players will pay that sub even if they aren't actively playing in fear of losing a piece of digital real estate that is hard to come by.

5760 plots per server and about 70 servers. That's 400,000 plots across all servers. Each of those 400,000 plots are paying about $15/mo. That's $6M US every month coming to SE. And with the addition of Isghard (70 x 1440 plots) that is likely another $1.5M per month on top of that. They have people paying them for not playing the game. Genius.

*** Obviously some houses are owned by FCs but it still requires at least one FC member to pay a sub to keep it. I rounded down on most of this to account for people like that Lucius FC that has 60 houses.