Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
So does the ward system by not allowing every player to have a house. After all, they too are paying a monthly sub fee. Why are you and I allowed houses for paying that sub fee but others aren't? They are effectively being punished for something outside of their control.

A recurring gil fee does not have to be prohibitively expensive, just enough to deter people from holding houses they aren't actively using. Actively playing the game would cover the fee while leaving the player with plenty of more gil for buying other items.
I don't really understand the point of the fee then. We've already got the requirement that people step inside/interact with their house at some point over a span of 45 days. They have to be logged in to do that.

There's also the issue that depending on where a person is in the game, gil can be very easy or very difficult to get. I think most endgame folks aren't going to have a problem paying a substantial fee, but a sprout that's still going through the MSQ, who may have scraped and saved their gil to be able to afford a plot, might have a serious problem.