[SUGGESTION] Adding a "Property Broker" NPC and system

[Terin]

Houses may not be meant to SELL amongst, but they ARE clearly designed to change hands in SOME capacity. And what I'm suggesting makes zero impact on inactive houses going for sale.

@Kaynide: You have two really awesome plots. If you're super into housing, it makes sense you might never want to part with them. But myself, for example, I can't even HOPE to ever acquire that Shirogane house, because I have zero agency. I have to hope that you, and the owners on the other wards, essentially just decide to quit the game.

That sucks.

What would suck less? If I at least had a means of making an OFFER to purchase or trade plots with you. Of course, I could maybe do a "Player Search" for one of the owners every single day I log-in, and if I DO happen to catch them, maybe I try to work out something. But then it's going to be completely unregulated, which is just asking for trouble.

The fact is, Houses are DESIRABLE POSSESSIONS for players, so why are players so convinced "it should be totally RNG"? I mean, Housing is the main reason a few of my friends even play FFXIV; if you want gil, pick up some tradeskills and get to work! And making it a big enough gil-sink would actually help LEVEL the playing the field, by taking a ton of gil out of the economy.

At the very least, even if you couldn't BUY or SELL houses, it would be nice to be able to TRADE them. Like I said, I would love to be able to work towards either getting a "dream house", or even becoming an in-game neighbor to one of my friends.

The current system is just SO restrictive, it places almost all of power to players who simply can play ALL the time. If I'm willing to take time leveling tradeskills, crafting stuff to sell on market-board, and build up gil over time, why not give us an option to offer that gil for the houses we *really* want?

[ItMe]

The current system is just SO restrictive, it places almost all of power to players who simply can play ALL the time. If I'm willing to take time leveling tradeskills, crafting stuff to sell on market-board, and build up gil over time, why not give us an option to offer that gil for the houses we *really* want?

(Emphasis mine)

A.) No it doesn't.
You can get houses without no-lifing a placard.
Let's please not keep pretending we need to be unhealthy in the pursuit of a house.

B.) I don't understand how your system wouldn't also reward people who spend all their time in game.
If you could make an offer to Kaynide... do you honestly think you wouldn't be outbid?
Even if you could make offers you're still not getting that plot.
The people that have been playing longer than you will be.
The people that play the game to make gil will be.
The people who engage in RMT will be.
I don't believe such a system would help you get a house you want.