Please Implement a Bid/Monthly Maintenance System for Housing

[Risvertasashi]

RMT approves this message.

Pretty sure they're already making a killing on the current system.

[Kallera]

Can we please stop asking to play an economy mmo?

Good idea, let's suggest that to the developers of our economy mmo.

[Riepah]

Rather than focusing on taking away people's houses and land that they paid ridiculously high prices for, I really think SE should get their crap together and provide more land. Nothing is going to keep a player who's taken a break from the game from coming back like knowing that the house they worked for for ages is quite simply gone, without any of their invested money returned.
I for one know for sure that I won't ever even consider coming back to the game once I took a break and lost my house because of it.

[brewbane]

monthly maintenance fee system.

Nothing encourages people to come back and play FFXIV like getting kicked out of their house.


Theoryfun: Could I get a grant from the Eorzean Housing Authority to cover my expenses while I'm deployed overseas? Will my mortgage qualify for Ward Affordable Refinancing Program (WARP) if I'm recovering from having Virus cast on me? What if I not a tank, and I don't get the In Need bonus for Roulettes. Can I get a subsidy from the Department of Queue Normalization?

[ZodiacSoldier]

Your idea probably wont work, if there was a bidding system in place, then its pretty much whoever has the most money will get the house. Housing at like 1 to 5 mil right now i think is pretty good pricing and most people should have this amount if they are fairly active and just do their daily. I rather it be a first come, first serve system, so that everyone have a chance of owning a house not just the rich/RMT customers. What they should do though is only allow 1 house per SE account, right now its 1 house per character and I read how some people bought 8 houses across their characters, just plain selfish.

And they don't need a monthly maintenance cost, that is a bad idea. They already have a system in play to check for activity, if i remember right if you don't visit your house for like 30 or so days, it is automatically relinquished. I would have prefer if your house was relinquished, you get your money back, but instead you lose your money. I'm pretty sure SE did this to prevent people from flipping the market, IE buy all the houses, and then bid off the land to buyers. Personally I'm not a fan of the whole relinquishing idea, but I do see where they are coming from. But there are RL circumstances that prevent people from logging in, for example if you are in the army and get deployed. Not exactly the best to come home from service only to have your in-game house taken away by SE.

[TheRogueX]

Here's the way LotRO does it:

You pay a fee for the land and the house that's already on the land (none of this BS land plot fee AND house permit fee crap). This fee is not huge like it is in FFXIV; it is rather affordable to players of almost any play style.
You then pay a weekly upkeep fee. You can pay in advance up to 6 weeks or so. This is not a huge fee either, and is very affordable.
If you fail to pay your upkeep fee, you do not immediately lose your house. There is a period of days (I can't remember how many) before your land is automatically surrendered and put up for sale again.

In that game, each ward has a set number of FC plots, then a set number of various size plots for personal housing. As wel, new housing wards are AUTOMATICALLY generated when all existing wards are full. Why a game from 2007 can have such a similar system to FFXIV yet be vastly superior in all ways boggles my mind. I know all games and game engines are not created equal, but this is a simple example of "we should have taken more time to consider other successful personal housing systems."

[ColeSlawter]

Dear SE: Please allow me to buy as many houses as I want.

Then add the ability for me to rent the house to other players on a month-to-month lease. If they don't pay on the first, then I can evict them (we might need a judicial system as well to resolve disputes but the GMs should be available since they aren't currently doing anything about RMT)

Thanks

[Souljacker]

I for one know for sure that I won't ever even consider coming back to the game once I took a break and lost my house because of it.

If the house wasn't taking up real-time space while you aren't paying, I'd agree. That's why this system is such a failure. Personal housing should be personal, not a monument to a players dedication to earning currency.

[Gramul]

I'd rather they just add new wards as soon as a previous one fills.

[Elim]

Well, I'd be able to afford a "maintenance fee" but I wouldn't want nor like it. Seems like a pointless gil sink that would just scare the poorer people on the game away from houses more than they already are. lol. This wouldn't make things available, it'd keep the rich in their houses and the poor out of houses forever.

They're adding more plots soon, and I'm sure as they improve and add servers more houses will continue to come out. Also I'm hoping they come out with a system to share houses between spouses or even a select amount of friends in the future.