Apartments need Rent

[Almagnus1]

The problem here between you and Catstab is complicated.

No it's not, they hate me and hate anything I have to say and will make their disdain abundantly clear.

While Catstab is correct and nothing was obtained through "ill-gotten" means and is entirely by the rules at the time, that doesn't mean it's okay to own multiples of a limited resource. But none of us are in the right position to judge and condemn others for what they choose to do. So long as they use what they have then we can't complain about them having it.

**looks at social media** This is the internet, anyone can (and will) complain about anything. Even when it may not make much sense. =)

it could certainly be made better with certain choices, but making players have to pay "rent" on an apartment only makes apartments less desirable, completely invalidating the point to the gil-sink mentality. Adding rent to houses would kill the desire for plenty of house-owners and all of the people that have houses probably are pretty well-off gil-wise, so it would need to be a large "rent sum" in order to make them consider relinquishing. Which has one of two end results. Either only the super-wealthy (and bots) own the houses, or every ward becomes a ghost town because nobody wants to pay 3M+ on a small, only to be charged an extra 50K+ every month to keep it.

(Exaggerated numbers, but you get the point)

Thing of it is.... we've already shown that the 10k/week is trivially doable which means that 50k/month is as well... so all you're really doing is a knee jerk reaction to "it's another expense". Whatever the housing rent would be set at, it'd have to be a weekly expense but the expense should be set at like half the median (or mean) weekly gil generation of a a service account with at least one level 80 disciple of war or disciple of magic. I'm suggesting half (and a higher percentage) as to not make the theoretical average player house poor. Should SE charge rent on houses then the initial price of the house should also be reduced with the difference being converted to rent and whatever the leftover amount is mailed to the player as a refund.

Look at it this way, it's the difference in revenue stream between FFXIV and FFXV or FFXIII and how it can make sense to put the FFXIV base game on sale as SE really doesn't make THAT much on the FFXIV base game compared to what they make for the subs, especially when you look at the cost for the sub across an entire expansion compared to average package. While there will be a few that will get the collectors edition with all the things, that only only equals about 50% of the sub income for that expansion cycle AT BEST.