Quote Originally Posted by geminipestdeath View Post
I mean, honestly, I don't think it matters. You could double the number of plots available and there would still be 10-15 people chilling around each placard hoping to be the one to get it. The game's population is only ever going to increase with the expansion of free-to-play content, interest, advertising new expansions, etc. One server might have 5 plots empty in each ward whereas more population servers like Gilgamesh will still have a veritable horde of people standing around clicking their lives away instead of doing something more productive.

Not that it matters, honestly. If this and other threads are any indicator, the community seems pretty divided on whether or not it's even possible. Brass tacks is that lesser MMOs have already figured this out and while we could spend literal weeks debating the merits of how effectively they did so, it doesn't do anything to address FFXIV's case. We could argue about how "valid" housing is for the FFXIV experience revolving around its practicality in gameplay. People have different ambitions. Some want colored parses in Savage content, some want to have an awesome looking glamour they can share on Eorzea Collection, some want a house. Only one of those three has a barrier of entry that cannot be overcome solely by the player's own perseverance - at least not at the cost of enjoying any other aspect of the game.
A lot of these houses owned by players stand empty or am not or barely used at all, that is the other problem, let houses cost rent per month... 500K a month for a small 1million per month for a medium and 2millions per month for a large, for FC housing it would be 2million for a small per month, 4millions for a medium and 8millions for a large per month, and that is bound in and only due to that there is way many more people around a FC house.

For a player a small would be 6millions per year, medium 12millions per year and a large 24millions per year.
For a FC a small would be 24millions a year, medium 48millions per year and a large 96millions per year.