Quote Originally Posted by Imora View Post
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.
For me, it's not the gil, I have plenty from various duties in game. For me it's the idea that something that was presented as part of the package to play would now be a cost for some imaginary needed gil sink. If I want to use gil, there are plenty of tempting tidbits to spend it on if I have a lazy streak or just don't do dungeons. I know it's difficult when you are new and working to get your char to 80 because the gil you get from quests is a joke. It will get better once you learn to work the features to accumulate wealth.