The demand for houses is too high and stock is too low... then what?...

[Velvet_Xioyin]

A reddit user once claimed that he treated his ingame house like a vacation house and that he didnt want the demolishing to happen faster cause he would want to come back to it when he want

In one way, it did make sense to treat the ingame house in such a way as an inactive player but the result is detrimental for the rest of the community who wants to get a house and it serves no use for Square Enix other than making the community raise the pitch forks and demanding more housing updates and thus costing Square Enix money because they need to expand the wards AGAIN

However, normally in the real world you'd still be expected to pay tax for your house even if you don't use it, and if you do not pay the ownership tax your land could be claimed by a thirdparty or the government. but in FFXIV there is no such thing that i am aware of and in direct result the wards simply become ghost towns because there's no long term penalty for owning a house? hmm...?