Time limit?

[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.