Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
A tax does both, though. It helps to curb inflation and reduces demand for a finite resource.

It's easy to make the choice to buy something when you pay once and it's yours forever. If you don't end up using it not a big deal, it's not costing you any extra to keep it.

It's harder to make that choice if you have to keep paying for it each month. Will you use it enough to make it worth paying the recurring fee? If not, you're better off not buying it and saving the gil to buy other things you will be using.

When the idea of a tax has come up in past discussion, some players objected because they said they wouldn't have bought their house in the first place if there had been a tax they would need to keep paying. That shows a tax would have a positive effect on reducing demand for a limited resource.
I cannot speak for others just myself if they kept housing prices at their current range a tax would not be enough to deter me. Spending small if not constant amounts of gil phases me all that much, but say if the buy in price was higher I would sort of think twice, and if the buy in price was higher and came with a tax that probably would be enough to sway my thoughts of buying plots on my second account I have been getting ready for Ishgard housing.

Though will admit for most maybe a tax in itself would be enough to sway them especially the casual owners that really do not do much and just treat it like a window dressing.

Over would be interesting to see what kind of impact diffedent methods would have on the market and demand. Be it a lottery, higher prices, taxes, an ingame method to buy and sell homes to other players.

Though sadly SE clearly seems stuck in their ways.