Time limit?

[GenJoe]

Someone ought to burn your houses down.

Hey now, just because we can enjoy the affordable, spacious houses of the rural midwest, there's no reason to commit arson.

[Nutz]

lol, people act like buying vacant plots on low population servers keeps people from buying plots on high population servers. Sorry guys, all the servers have exactly the same number of plots even with drastically different populations and demand. I haven't checked recently but I believe my own server has a lot of vacancies, at least in the Goblet. They haven't added any new plots in several months now. If there are any vacant plots at this point then the demand must be minimal.

[Dererk]

I hope this is a troll topic.

I don't want to believe people like him exist.

I'd be more surprised if people like him didn't exist its still sickening.

[Niwashi]

Would be interesting if you could turn those areas into parks for people to enjoy the view of.

When I first got my house plot, I was quite annoyed at not being able to put up any outside furniture or decorations until a house was built. (After finally accumulating enough gil for the plot, it took a while before I could put together the additional gil to build on it. In the meantime, I was stuck looking at an incredibly expensive plot of land that I supposedly owned, but had no more rights to than if I didn't.)

[m3eansean]

Selfish, to say the least.

[Madjames]

Selfish, to say the least.

Yeah well, my parents bought their house IRL, the land on each side of their house and the lot behind them. It may be selfish but they PAY the taxes on the land and their house. They did this so no one else in their sub division could buy and build next to them or behind them. It is not your decision on how they spend their money. It also makes no difference to them what someone like you may think as THEY pay the taxes and keep the land looking natural and nice, not you. The same can be said here. If this guy has the cash more power to him and I support his decision. I would do this if I could as well in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

[Verdan]

Oh so that's why you react so strongly to people committing obvious jerk moves. Just because someone can take an action, because they have the power to take an action, just not mean that action is justified or fair or commendable. Someone buying up videogame plots when they're in a limited supply is a dick move! Don't be a jerk about this stuff!

[GenJoe]

Oh so that's why you react so strongly to people committing obvious jerk moves. Just because someone can take an action, because they have the power to take an action, just not mean that action is justified or fair or commendable. Someone buying up videogame plots when they're in a limited supply is a dick move! Don't be a jerk about this stuff!

It's a QoL thing, if ya got the money, why not? As far as I'm concerned, housing is QoL, not a necessity in the game.
Should we all live in gray cubicles so nobody feels bad about not having a gigantic mansion?

Besides, in a game, the idea of equality is detrimental to the players.. You're basically making a game that has no metric for competition (let's not get into how pointless competition in games are) and that's what keeps the people going, playing more, trying to play better, grind for items/money etc. The competitive spirit keeps these games going.

[Verdan]

Housing is a system in the game that you can make people not be able to access by buying up more plots than you need. This wouldn't be an issue at all if housing wasn't drastically limited, but here we are. It's jerk move to have lots of plots when people could use them.
And you completely avoided the real point in your competitive spirit thing. This shit don't matter, dawg, and if someone's kept interested by having the best house or the richest on the server they're just looking for motivation, desperately. Very little of this game is designed competitively, everyone even has their own gathering nodes.

[GenJoe]

buying up more plots than you need

Keyword, NEED.. Nobody NEEDS housing.. I gave mine up a month ago, haven't had the urge to buy another one yet.

And you completely avoided the real point in your competitive spirit thing. This shit don't matter, dawg, and if someone's kept interested by having the best house or the richest on the server they're just looking for motivation, desperately. Very little of this game is designed competitively, everyone even has their own gathering nodes.

Nope, you're missing my point.. As care bear, competition-less as FF14 is, the moment individual differences are taken out in the name of "equality", the game will cease to exist. Look at how many MMOs exist where there's no competition, everybody can have whatever they want at their fingertips, closest and quite possibly the only one I can think of is Second Life and I think you can agree that the crowd in that game is vastly different than the crowd in FF14.

I do agree with you on the artificial nature of people's motivation when they're trying to play the money game.. After all, you really don't need any more than 50million gil in this game, arguably even less.. But face it, this is a game. Everything each of us do here is artificially motivated, there's no tangible goal we're striving for. Sure, the game has better metrics of success for some aspects of the game over others, but at the end of the day, we're all just here to fulfill what our individual goals are. In some people's cases, that may involve buying up 2 houses and leaving one of them an empty plot.


I can tell you that one of my personal goals in the game that I've been working towards is to carve out a little neighborhood consisting of 3 or 5 houses.. I've been leveling up my second FC just to achieve this, almost at rank 6 then I'll move on to my third FC then I'll be ready to put it into action. Just need to find a nice empty ward. Fortunately for me this is not a deal breaker.. if I can't do it, I have other goals I have in mind but it's fun to work towards it.