"Flipping" (Hoarding) Housing

[Tilgung]

Not a single person should feel pity for the dev team server space be damned, they implemented the system knowing full well this was going to happen.

I suppose they should have just.. not implemented it at all then. Server space isn't infinite, and I can't recall a single time the devs stated it would be possible for every individual character to own a house if they so wished.

[Kolaina]

Not a single person should feel pity for the dev team server space be damned, they implemented the system knowing full well this was going to happen.

i guess i should only pity those who even when personal housing was announced didnt plan ahead, get motivated and acquire the gil necessary to afford their vanity.
in truth its not about pity towards 1 side or the other. its about understanding housing in its current state can not be supplied to each and every individual and its not going to happen on wards to meet the demand with out being a detriment to the rest of the game. server space is limited thats all i am saying

[Solarra]

its about understanding housing in its current state can not be supplied to each and every individual and its not going to happen on wards to meet the demand with out being a detriment to the rest of the game. server space is limited thats all i am saying

I don't see your logic.
Making housing available to everybody is not going to be to the detriment of the game unless Square decide not to make the funding available to implement it properly and then instruct the devs to go ahead anyway but cut something else. Unless you work for them you have no way of knowing if that is going to happen.

The most important point of the OP was that under the present system some players have been able to buy multiple properties with the sole intention of profiting from others. Reclamation doesn't prevent this and it's something a lot of us feel should be stopped.
Housing is in short supply, so it makes no sense to allow more than a single personal house and a FC house on each account.

[RiceisNice]

So I am going to leave these excerpts from past producer letters here for your enjoyment...

I laughed then died a little inside. This sort of thing has been reoccuringly obvious with other things like job balancing too, specifically 2.0 warrior and 3.0 BRD/MCH.

[AnimaAnimus]

In what I copy/pasted above they stated they were going to constantly monitor it to add more space as needed and you could buy a standard size house and add towers with fc points to make it more spacious inside and to encourage people to help new players, so a small house wouldn't really have been that bad for a larger sized fc.

My guess is more of it was planned but either fell to the wayside or couldn't be implemented. Either way their silence on the subject seems to make them seem more and more like they just don't care. They need to learn that silence on a subject that is greatly discussed speaks volumes.

[BreathlessTao]

The same thing as the reclamation system: with how absurdly limited the availability is, especially when directly compared to demand - a "one personal house per account" policy should have been there right from the very start. Just another example of that phenomenally awesome mindset of SE that seems to surface in certain cases, you know where they go "leaving it to the players is the best thing to do". And as all others, this is one is also just another example of why that mindset does not work. Personally, I'm utterly disgusted at the whole concept of house hoarding and wouldn't mind seeing the offenders banned (or at least suspended).

As for all the things that have been planned and mentioned in live letters...... I guess all that just fell through. And I'm willing to bet all that ultimately came down to money, beneath the "more priority" issues and the "deadlines to meet" issues.

[AnimaAnimus]

This is true, but SE does have its set of default answers.

In version 1 it was "wait til version 2"
in version 2 it was "we are looking into it"
now its dwindled down to just dead silence which is why I think people are getting so antsy, frustrated and nay sayery

[AnimaAnimus]

Yeah you could actually go back and go through them and compile a whole long list of things they promised and then we never heard about again.

I can understand if it just isn't possible but when ppl are asking about it repeatedly, tell them that, don't just sit there and say nothing. Sure there are a ton of threads on this forum but if they put out there the reasons instead of just staying quiet maybe things wouldn't seem so bleak and we could cut down on the number of repeat threads. A up to date forum FAQ would be wonderful. And the whole language barrier is a poor excuse at this point. When you have a multi-lingual game you need to keep up a multi-lingual forum response system if you're going to have one at all instead of blatantly ignoring almost if not over half your playerbase. I understand the NA team has its hands tied when it comes to answering so it is the jp side of things that are treating English, German and French speaking players with indifference.

[Gyson]

Apparently, it's a common thing amongst servers for one person to buy multiple estates, entirely for the purpose of resale, 3-5 times the original price. Since housing is a limited commodity, these prices become realistic.Buying housing with large amounts of money to make ludicrous amounts of money, dominating the housing sector of the economy. Is this acceptable behavior? Do you feel that players should be able to own houses on alts?

Well, according to this it's not even legal:



(not my conversation, by the way)

[AnimaAnimus]

from what I remember I think was proven to be faked