1 House 1 FC per DC Only

[LaylaTsarra]

This may be a radical opinion but I think it should be 1 personal house and 1 FC house per service account. I don't care if that means someone's alt on another data center can't purchase a house.

They had the opportunity to do that but choose not to. Interestingly enough the only changes were rules limiting the ability of transferring a house instantly and the attempt to limit FC abuse which doesn't seem to have been that successful. I think people are prepared for new rules as long as they don't make them retroactive.

[Jojoya]

They had the opportunity to do that but choose not to. Interestingly enough the only changes were rules limiting the ability of transferring a house instantly and the attempt to limit FC abuse which doesn't seem to have been that successful. I think people are prepared for new rules as long as they don't make them retroactive.

I have to wonder if it's more of a coding limitation. The game isn't exactly consistent when it comes to recognizing characters being part of the same account. It shouldn't have been that hard to say "You already have a character on your account in a FC that has a house. Your other characters are therefore not eligible to enter the lottery on behalf of their FC." It shouldn't stop the FC from being able to get a house since the characters for other players in the FC could still enter.

Instead, they went with making the restriction "owned as buyer" to leave the gaping loophole for people to step through if they want to go to the effort to get multiple houses.

There are always going to be those fighting against rules changes if they see those changes as opposing what they want personally. Look at all the players unhappy with the lottery itself because they preferred FCFS even with the placard camping.

They'd rather have a real money shop in a box price+ monthly sub game, since managing an in game economy is less profitable than selling cosmetics, mounts, extra retainers etc. for real money.
In conclusion - the real money shop is your main antagonist here

It doesn't need to be, though. Almost everything on the cash shop is NPC cosplay, seasonal event or "import" of the glamours created specifically for the KR/CN markets at the request of the local publishers for those countries.

There's plenty of room for more glamour outside of that, such as cosmetic versions of popular role gear that players would like to see unlocked for use with other jobs. That's close to zero effort for gil sinks since those models are already in the game, and highly unlikely to be items that players would be willing to spend real money to purchase.

(sorry for the derail)

[Eraden]

I have to wonder if it's more of a coding limitation. The game isn't exactly consistent when it comes to recognizing characters being part of the same account. It shouldn't have been that hard to say "You already have a character on your account in a FC that has a house. Your other characters are therefore not eligible to enter the lottery on behalf of their FC." It shouldn't stop the FC from being able to get a house since the characters for other players in the FC could still enter.

Instead, they went with making the restriction "owned as buyer" to leave the gaping loophole for people to step through if they want to go to the effort to get multiple houses.

There are always going to be those fighting against rules changes if they see those changes as opposing what they want personally. Look at all the players unhappy with the lottery itself because they preferred FCFS even with the placard camping.


It doesn't need to be, though. Almost everything on the cash shop is NPC cosplay, seasonal event or "import" of the glamours created specifically for the KR/CN markets at the request of the local publishers for those countries.

There's plenty of room for more glamour outside of that, such as cosmetic versions of popular role gear that players would like to see unlocked for use with other jobs. That's close to zero effort for gil sinks since those models are already in the game, and highly unlikely to be items that players would be willing to spend real money to purchase.

(sorry for the derail)

Anet almost completely funds its support for GW2 on Gemstore purchases, most of which are cosmetics. Gems and in game currency are interchangeable at variable rates based on the market. SE could do well for itself by taking a page out of Anet's business practices with regards to these sorts of things.