Apartments need Rent

[Jojoya]

The country i live in apartments are both bought and rented. People pay millions of kronor for apartments.

And I'm not going for emotional anything. Punishments are meant to be deterrents. Poor money sinks are deterrents. The technical definition is "the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offence."

The offense in question here is having money that the OP seems to think having is a bad thing. If they really wanted to sink gillionaires, there's plenty of other ways. But most of them are frugal and won't buy stuff that costs recurrent payment. It's why I even have money in other games. I don't spend it.

Here? I'm broke. Apartment rent would be the last straw for me and housing.

No matter how you want to twist it being asked to pay rent/property tax/homeowner's association fee/etc. is not punishment. Even if a punishment is a type of deterrent, not all deterrents are punishment.

Trying to sink gillionaires won't do much because they just pass their costs onto the players they're selling to so those players pay more to get less.

Those players would be richer if they would stop taking the easy way out by buying from the gillionaires at inflated prices and farming what they need themselves.

Not that I'm in anyway okay with rent on apartments unless there's a much higher rent on houses first but if you can't afford 10k a week, you're just logging in without playing the game. Content (other than PvP and Gold Saucer) is throwing gil at players simply for doing it, challenge logs add more gil on top of that and those amounts add up to a lot more than you need to cover things like repairs and teleport fees. There are a lot of other ways to make gil as well without leveling crafting or gathering.

If having to pay a small amount of rent would be enough to deter you from getting housing in the game, you sound like someone who doesn't care about housing in the first place. That's why deterrents like rent would be a good thing - those who don't care about housing would skip it and leave more available for those who do care. But the deterrent needs to be placed first where the demand is greatest and overwhelming the supply - on houses themselves, not apartments.