Ishgard Housing Transfer System Unfair

[Hieral]

You know, like any first come, first serve situation... first come first serve. At least there will.be many vacant houses in the other cities for a few hours for you to buy.

[SilverDjinn]

in my opinion as a house owner it would be unfair for SE not to offer a transfer option to existing owners. Why should a house owner have to give up there plot and lose a substantial amount of gil.... SE is being fair to everyone give existing owners and new to be owner a chance in the new area. The only people moaning is the people who don't own a house or can't afford one. People should really think of the cost involved with housing before moaning about things being unfair because someone has a house and will have the chance to move to the new area which will free up an old plot anyway

[Xerius]

The only game I've seen where someone can own a home forever without even needing to log in during a certain timeframe to maintain ownership.

It's because while you were sitting here on the forums complaining about how much housing was, we were out farming up the 3~100+million gil to purchase the house. We never get that money back unless someone is willing to buy you out of your plot and then spend another 3~100+million to buy the house. It's the fact that housing prices are so heavily exaggerated that is the reason that we get to keep our houses.

[MsCroc]

I have no idea how this feature is going to work out. Presumably it will allow you to transfer you to other districts as well, not just Ishgard housing.
We don't know the specifics of this yet.
Do they still have to pay money for the new plot they are buying but just don't have to trash all their furniture/pay the right to build?
Do they not have to pay for the price of a plot again but pay a fee for the transfer?
Are their wait times?

I sit on the fence here because how this feature is implemented could be just as unfair as the OP is implying or it could be quite fine.
The reason why this could be potentially unfair is if it is much easier to transfer a house than it is to go out and buy one. Either way, you are suddenly getting a lot of competition that the other housing wards did not have upon release. As you are not only competing against people who don't have a house (as it has been with former patches) but you are also competing with people who already have one.

[Erim-Nelhah]

For those of you bashing this transfer system....I'm willing to bet that it involves 2 points:

• The ability to sell/transfer a plot between players and
• The ability to "save" your furnishings and layout on your housing deed and move them to a new plot (for a fee, possibly based on the number of non-refundable items on the lot)

I have nothing against either of these. If it indeed turns out to be a system by which you can simply "move" your house to a new same-size plot in the new zone, I'm not against that either, provided that it requires that you:

1. Pay the full price required for the new lot and
2. Relinquish the old lot upon moving to the new one.

--Erim Nelhah

[Fenwick]

Housing should be released after a certain amount of time not in the game. There are plots on my server that don't even have a house, but have been bought and they've been like that since I came to the server. :l

[Caiera]

I don't see what the fuss is about, I don't own a house, I don't need or want one, they are just gil sinks that have no productive value IMO
I use the free Inn room, dont need to spend gil on any furnishings there :P

[Galactimus]

I don't see what the fuss is about, I don't own a house, I don't need or want one, they are just gil sinks that have no productive value IMO
I use the free Inn room, dont need to spend gil on any furnishings there :P

That's perfectly fine not wanting to own a house; however saying they are gil sinks with no productive value is extremely falsified information:

- Gardening and selling Glazenuts / Thavnarian Onions paid for my house three times over when it first came out.
- Gardening and selling chocobo feed (for color changing) made me millions the first week it came out.
- FC Airship Ventures selling extra Airship materials, bulk Grade III Materia's, Iron Giant Cores, etc. has made me millions.
- Bought a small plot for 4mil, lived there awhile, and sold it for 8mil. Bought a Medium Plot for 16mil, lived there awhile, and sold it for 30mil.

Productive value has been enormous. Not to mention the other perks.

[Bry32]

I see no problem with this if the old plot is given up. Two housing does have purpose, not only is it a meeting point for your FC, but you also have crafting stations that can help everyone. Right now housing sucks just for the fact that SE needs to add more wards period.

[Lexia]

Well it a transfer system so means the same amount of houses will still be available, so if they transfer to ishgard there current plot will become available for someone else to buy.