Plot migration and why the housing problem persists, SE please start listening.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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Given this point, SE made housing too cheap. If housing was meant for FCs mainly, this means giving out prices for houses that reflect people pooling gil together, this means something like 50 mil for small, 100 mil for med and 150 mil for large (prices need to very depending on gil per server) They need prices to match the supply they can give, otherwise you end up with this shortage nonsense they got currently.

It would been much better if they had an instance system for personal and the current wards for FC. SE messed up housing in several ways:
-housing too cheap in comparison of the supply they are able to give
-letting people muti-box for housing
-4 people per fc to buy a house is not strict enough
-encourage people to tenant more

They should address the house hording for resell long ago, Why didn't they give the update we have now once they released subwards or have this change in HW release?
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Orignally housing was FC only when release, and it was much more expensive.

It also varied on price based on the server economy.

They had said that personal housing would be different and cheaper than FC housing, but they just went with the quick and easy implementation of just allowing individuals to purchase ward housing.

If they went with instance housing in the beginning, yeah it would've solved a lot of issues but that didn't happen. If anything, they shouldn't have had the need to add Apartments if they allowed us to customized our Inn Room. You're right tho, making FC Housing and Personal Housing the same was one of the biggest mistakes they ever did. I completely agree on that front. The Housing Limitation should've definitely been there since the beginning but alas, they didn't go this route.
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Yeah, the decision to allow individual players to purchase ward housing probably ruined what the devs had in mind for them leading to all the restrictions they had to put in place...

Whole system is a punishment to everyone. No matter what restrictions they put up, don't put up, etc it a punishment. Even people who have a house are still under punishment. Why? Because of Auto-demo. We're not allowed to take extended breaks from the game, we aren't allowed to have life happen. If life happens, oh well, goodbye to your house. Have something really bad happen to the point you can't even get on 35 days after your house has been demo, to bad, goodbye all your gil and housing items. Hope you didn't have money put into any housing items that were from the mogstation because that just went bye bye also.

Point is: the system a punishment because SE can't get their act together and do something right that is fair to everyone. Restrictions, restrictions, restrictions. All on a game we pay to play and should deserve the right to keep the things we worked hard for.
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I recall the devs outright stating they didn't like the idea of having to pay upkeep for housing, or systems that removed it due to lack of use...

But, their decisions lead to those same systems being necessary.

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it wouldn't matter if it didn't have the 30% off the normal price because it doesn't make much of a difference and it wouldn't stop players from moving!...
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Actually, I believe it's the % off the lowest possible price of the plot, not the starting price.
So it's much less.