Yes or No, and Explain, Please.

[Knahli]

-Housing is a highly desirable, albeit extremely limited feature.
-Opportunities where new plots become available for purchase are extremely few and far between.

-Players, realising this, take advantage of the situation not to secure themselves a home they have long aspired for, but to steal from legitimate, aspiring home owners the closest possible aspect of "fair game" from the event which is the already-flawed option of 'First come, first serve'.
-Now, instead of home owners competing with one another to snatch up their very own home, they are also competing against monopolists whose sole intention is to deny them their chance at a housing plot and limit sales to the highest bidders at values exceeding what most people can afford.

-Said players try to justify their actions by comparing the practice to regular, renewable sales that are based on the rarity of current possession rather than the rarity of an all-consumed possession of a finite resource.


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Many, many people clearly were extremely excited about this feature FF brought and even with everyone in full acknowledgement of the incredibly flawed manner in which SE implemented it with regards availability versus demand, they still choose to make it next to impossible for the majority of people to so much as have a chance at achieving their goal all because selfishness prevails above all else. What's worse, they refuse to own up to their own underhanded behaviour and make excuses to make it sound like a legitimate practice as though housing were equatable to any other resource in the game.

[Nicobo]

Is house buying/selling in a the context of normal gameplay a punishable offense? ...

IMO, It is a mystery! I think you have missed below thread? ^^;

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ent-on-housing


I think below is the conclusion, that's why I said it is a mystery..

27 pages and not even an acknowledgement from a GM, Community Rep, or Dev.

In the meantime GM's in-game are still doing whatever they please on the issue, PF's for selling houses are still there every day when I log on, and everyone's going crazy.

[Alberel]

You know this entire argument would be easily solved if SE just gave players a button to relinquish their house and get 80% of the gil back on demand. Having to wait 45 days for the auto-demolish to return any gil isn't a solution if someone wants to change servers or just saw another plot open up that they wanted instead. The problem here is a poorly implemented system. You can accuse players of being greedy all you like (though those selling under the circumstances I've listed above are NOT being greedy) but it's the flawed system itself that you really ought to be challenging.

[Neira]

You know this entire argument would be easily solved if SE just gave players a button to relinquish their house and get 80% of the gil back on demand. Having to wait 45 days for the auto-demolish to return any gil isn't a solution if someone wants to change servers or just saw another plot open up that they wanted instead. The problem here is a poorly implemented system. You can accuse players of being greedy all you like (though those selling under the circumstances I've listed above are NOT being greedy) but it's the flawed system itself that you really ought to be challenging.

A problem that could be easily solved by a simple change by SE in an update? Such a ridiculous notion. That will never be the case and we will never have to endure such limitations to enjoy our game play. Surely.