An end to the camping timer. An end to resale. A return to...

[ForteNightshade]

And throughout ARR, entire wards were mostly vacant plots. Which kind of defeats the whole point of having a housing system to begin with. Furthermore, it wouldn't do much to deter anyone. Gil has virtually no value anymore due to the massive inflation. So the exorbitant prices wouldn't matter to many players. Not to mention how much worse botting has got. All in all, you're just rewarding the extremely rich players or those willing to RMT.

[Catstab]

All in all, you're just rewarding the extremely rich players

How else do you decide how to distribute a resource only ~20% of players can have? Each server has 5,760 houses (roughly 4320 personals and 1440 FC) and 20,000-25,000 players. Right now we decide which one player in five gets a house based on their ability to click a placard for several hours at a time, any number of times. Many people have commented how-anti fun this system is.

There needs to be a check on housing other than patience, free time, and abuse of your gaming hardware. I think 'players or FCs who have 40 million gil to invest' is a decent check. 40 mil is far from "extremely rich" it's just a player who has put a good year into the game at endgame content, or an FC that has 8+ people willing to pool a few weeks worth of work.

Not to mention, the game needs a gil sink. You say this would only benefit the rich, but I know some of the rich and they'd swat me for saying this, but small houses having a placard price of 3m contribute greatly to their riches. Having to invest 40 million gil every time you wanted a workshop would put a dent in profiteering.

[Arielen]

And throughout ARR, entire wards were mostly vacant plots. Which kind of defeats the whole point of having a housing system to begin with. Furthermore, it wouldn't do much to deter anyone. Gil has virtually no value anymore due to the massive inflation. So the exorbitant prices wouldn't matter to many players. Not to mention how much worse botting has got. All in all, you're just rewarding the extremely rich players or those willing to RMT.

Tbf, back in ARR, no one had money. Nowadays there are multiple goldcapped players and 10mil is considered a low and/or somewhat ordinary amount of money in most datacenters and the best way to get a house is through players that are - drumroll - selling most plots at a ballpark reminiscent of ARR pricing. I don't think people are so broke that it would be impossible for them to buy a 30-50mil small given that's what people were paying for them (albeit illegally) during the entire pandemic autodemo off period.