Decrease the demand for houses with taxes

[Archaell]

It wouldn't really decrease the demand either players who want will still get it.

Players would be getting and losing houses more often increasing the number of players who would participate in housing for period of time.

1. Wrong channel. You'd need to go to Housing for this rant to stick.

2. Players are already paying taxes in this thing called their "Subscription Fee". Don't try to add more caveats.

Adding a "tax" to housing would make it so that only the richest players (or people that can gather/craft the expensive stuff!) will be able to own them. And bots.. So you'd be giving all the plots to Bots. Kudos to you.

Happens when half the housing threads are in general. Sub fee is not decreasing the demand as everyone pays it. Bots are always gonna be in the game, doesn't change stuff much.

Also taxes would make it harder for players to hoard multiple houses (even whole wards) which has been ongoing issue for long time.

The problem with talking about the economics of ff14 housing is that the supply is completely arbitrary and fake. SE could redesign the system to get rid of supply issues if they wanted to dedicate their dev resources towards that, but they currently refuse to do so because of an outdated idea on how their housing should work. If they added a tax to housing, what would it accomplish? It would probably alienate more people from the game and anger a larger portion of the player base because now people with houses are being retroactively punished for having a house and new players are going to be even more punished over wanting a house.

It would be great if SE could fix the supply but clearly that's not likely from them. Players would not be happy about it, I noted that, but it would allow larger number of players to touch the housing briefly before realising the upkeep work is not worth having a single player house. It may seem like a punishment but it is not.