Quote Originally Posted by KadaRemnant View Post
Seriously... Timer is here to torture players.
Okay I get it that you hate the timer. But its function is not intended to torture players. It's to stop players flipping houses. That was a real problem. House flipping can be very exploitative because the prices in the past have sometimes been insane. I remember seeing cottages in Shirogane going for 80 million on some servers when that housing district was launched. The highest price I saw was a Shirogane mansion for 500 million gil. Many people had no hope of affording those prices without using RMT.

Yes house flipping is still around but it's only an option for fcs and relocation now. So the market for it has dramatically fallen.

RMT is bad for players because it puts their FFXIV account at risk of being hacked and their credit card info being stolen from the gil seller, and it's also against the ToS so SE remove your account if you're caught doing it. Why don't SE want it? Likely because they want players to earn their gil instead of crashing server economies by purchasing it, and they also don't want other companies to make money off of their own product.

I agree the timer is awful but you need to stop acting as if its intended function is to infuriate people, because it's not. The timer is working as intended, unfortunately a side effect of that is making it extremely frustrating for first time buyers to get a house.

If we had instanced housing literally all the issues surrounding house acquisition wouldn't exist. But for some reason SE are digging their heels in and show no interest in providing this so here we are. The least they could do is improve apartments. They're disappointingly limited compared to houses.