Quote Originally Posted by Coletergeist View Post
I agree with this; this would also make you feel a bit more accomplished with the purchase (personal opinion) and there'd be less competition (I think?) for obtaining housing since they wouldn't be so easily affordable as well. This game tosses gil at you it's almost hard to not get that much if you're smart with your gil.
Houses should be an investment. But of course there will probably be folks that disagree with this.
Yeah, disagree because just with the last few comments you can see three different views on how difficult it would be to acquire that gil.
Also, if the goal is to basically price people out then you're still going to get all the complaints about people not being able to get a house. Just instead of it only being that there aren't enough available, you'll also have people here complaining that it's too expensive in the first place, it wouldn't make people want housing less it'll just give them another reason to be angry about the inaccessibility of an advertised feature of the game.

If you wanted a mechanism that increased gil price it seems like it'd make more sense to implement auctions so people could put in the maximum amount of gil they're willing to pay and then the game sells to the highest bidder at the end of a certain time frame. This way where there's a plot available and low competition the price is low, where the competition is higher you need more gil.


I also don't really see personal housing as an investment in general. Gardening is sure but otherwise purchasing personal housing is unlocking the ability to utilise the housing decoration systems in the game to a greater degree than available in FC rooms/apartments with stepped upgrades in plot sizes.