Quote Originally Posted by Niraves View Post
I don't care about players that buy houses and do nothing with them. Two weeks is more than enough time to do SOMETHING with the plot. Since the patch dropped I've made over 80 million gil just selling furniture, two of the small Shirogane Castle Walls and a few other odds and ends. Well some players don't craft, you say? Neither did I, until I decided that I wanted to start looking into housing in this game and I realised how expensive it was. So I leveled gatherers and leveled crafters and saved up every gil that I could because having a house, with all the nice furnishings and decorations that I wanted, was important to me.
What is your point exactly? That a player should be required have a certain level of weekly income before buying a house? Not that having a decent weekly income is particularly difficult, but it will be much lower if you aren't a crafter (and becoming a dedicated crafter requires a fairly significant investment on its own).

Honestly, long as the new plot owner intends to actively work on his house at his own pace but in foreseeable future, I don't see an issue. People that bought their plots purely maintain an empty house as a status symbol are a different matter entirely. However, if all they do is owning a single plot one might argue they simply maintain their point of access to the housing system (regardless of whether they intend to make use of it or not) which has been one of more prominent features for this game for the past few years and a fairly significant selling point for the entire last expansion. Even if we were to agree that those players are in fact one of the problems within constraints of the current housing system that doesn't mean that multiple plots owners aren't one as well. Trying to suggest otherwise is an attempt at shifting the blame at best.

On another note, there is a fairly good chance that some (I'm not going to speculate about percentages here, we don't have nearly enough data on this issue to make any assumptions on the matter) of those empty houses people notice in Shirogane are in the hands of people that own multiple plots on multiple alts because they don't break any rules.