Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
There is nothing wrong with housing in this game. If you make housing cheap for everyone, then nothing but bots will fill them up to flip them as another source of RMT....
So if housing was more available and thus easier to get a hold of, bots would buy them to flip them, a practice that only exists because of the difficulty of getting a house? That is a silly argument. Flipping houses also revolves around interactions and good faith trades, something that bots and RMT can not take for granted when deciding their actions. It's why they're in the materia and shard/crystal buisness. It's low skill, high volume, hands off stuff.

Housing as a system matters little on any server with a large population, because all lots are taken. It's not acting as a gil sink, because the only transactions that are going on are giving large amounts of money to the already rich, and it's not acting as a boost to the economy because so few people are looking for furnishings. In addition, housing provides several high demand items through gardening, which means that if you're rich enough to buy a house you have access to several ways to make yourself richer. With the addition of Free Company crafting and Airships, this will only get worse. Housing is straight busted on servers with high pops, and only through massive increases in how many there are will this get any better.