Thread: 4.2 Housing Update

Originally Posted by Mithia

The fact still remains however that you would rather gloat over another their misfortune while you try to justify it with resources or other poor players who aren't able to own a house due to those evil players who managed to get an extra house!

Sorry, who is gloating? Me? Last I checked I didn't subject myself to an online interview with one of the internet's gutter trash magazines and give one of my reasons of "We don't want people with gaudy tastes to be our neighbors" - call it gloating or asshole-ism in its passive form. I have an FC mansion but that doesn't mean I shouldn't speak up for the less than fortunate or, "poor players" as you put it.

Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

If you're trying to use white knight as an insult to bolster your argument, you have a very weak argument. There's no reason for it trying to insult people, just make your point.

Hardly an insult. More of a label. He is white knighting for these people and even advocating for those who have such crappy elitist attitudes about it. My problem with people like that is that they act and think they're better than everyone else. S-E's dumb oversight enabled this beast and now other people suffer for it.

Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

As for letting people keep their plots, its the best decision for SE to make. As for letting the group on Mataeus owning most of a ward, thats just applying the same rule equally to all players...also a good decision. Removing things from players that they've invested a lot of time and gil and cash into is a bad precedent to set and one nobody should be encouraging.

A server blade alone eats up a lot of resources. I don't remember exactly what Koji told me directly when we were talking about it, but one ward alone from what I understand from personal experiences with MMOs and an extensive understanding of how the tech works could be as much as half a server blade or even a fourth of one. Those blades alone are in the thousands of dollars range. You give one person or even two people free reign to buy an entire ward and you've lost at least one fourth of your investment and on top of that, deprive other people of enjoying the game. I said earlier (though some people were more interested in not reading my entire post) that S-E is certainly a big factor to blame and they should take some form of ownership. I never said punish or strip people of those plots - give them back their investment. But at the same time, these people should of seen this coming, that S-E was going to address this sooner or later but instead they're getting the grandfather treatment and a pat on the bum for it.

TL;DR - your gil is worth shit to the actual cost of a server blade or the resources poured into running it.

Call it greed or dedication or however you paint it, but it is still greed in its form. If this is what makes them happy and accomplished, then cool. Enjoy it. The whole housing community has spawned some pretty awful people, even those awful people who have been telling those "poor people" the likes of "too bad" or "don't be so poor" - because honestly the people who have been telling off those unfortunate can just suck it.

Feel free to label that last part as an insult.