Houses should have a monthly fee

[Drkdays]

Although, let's be real: while an empty house is in no way a certain indication of a shell fc or reseller, it is entirely possible ...

I'm against a monthly fee, though. Getting a house is stressful enough without worrying about keeping it, too.

[Payadopa]

But with your suggestion you are punishing way more people who don't abuse the system. The cure shouldn't be way worse than the symptom.

[MistyMew]

No there should be enough for all WITHOUT a ball and chain link to a constant subscription.

Stop settling for even less of the bare minimum we should expect.

[LilithLux]

Here's my current issue with the housing or lack there of. I pay the same money every month as those who have houses. The only way for me to experience/get the same content as them is the ether get lucky or leave my friends and join some random FC that has a house. Why am I paying for content that I can not use? You can't use airships you can't garden heck you can't even change the color of your chocobo. I feel like SE is taking our money and not giving us what we are paying for. They are robbing there players of content/money.

[Nepentha]

Here's my current issue with the housing or lack there of. I pay the same money every month as those who have houses. The only way for me to experience/get the same content as them is the ether get lucky or leave my friends and join some random FC that has a house. Why am I paying for content that I can not use? You can't use airships you can't garden heck you can't even change the color of your chocobo. I feel like SE is taking our money and not giving us what we are paying for. They are robbing there players of content/money.

Or you can move to the new NA DC that has a lot of housing and still be able to DC travel to hang out with friends. I have a whole slew of friends who did just that. I just visited them to see their personals and all the decorating they're doing and made plans to attend a few social events there.

Balmung has long been known as the most congested server ever. You're making a choice to stay there, knowing housing is ridiculously hard to get there.

[Shibi]

Here's my current issue with the housing or lack there of. I pay the same money every month as those who have houses. The only way for me to experience/get the same content as them is the ether get lucky or leave my friends and join some random FC that has a house. Why am I paying for content that I can not use? You can't use airships you can't garden heck you can't even change the color of your chocobo. I feel like SE is taking our money and not giving us what we are paying for. They are robbing there players of content/money.

While we are mostly all asking for instanced housing as present in other games, the problem you have is closer to home.



There is a lot of available housing in NA, ready and ripe for the taking, but you need to move your tail off this particular server and DC to get it.

If housing is important to you, it's there. If you choose not to take it for friends or whatever, then that's your choice.

[Serenitey]

While we are mostly all asking for instanced housing as present in other games, the problem you have is closer to home.



There is a lot of available housing in NA, ready and ripe for the taking, but you need to move your tail off this particular server and DC to get it.

If housing is important to you, it's there. If you choose not to take it for friends or whatever, then that's your choice.

Small minded opinion. You shouldn't HAVE to leave a server you like or your friends are on just to get a house. That is ridiculous.

[Shibi]

Small minded opinion. You shouldn't HAVE to leave a server you like or your friends are on just to get a house. That is ridiculous.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

I think most of us agree that housing should be improved, because quite frankly the way it's made sucks. However, today, we need to work with what we have while continually pushing SE for a change. That change is unlikely to be fast, so in the meantime, if one wants a house then the solution is that.

We might not like it, but for now, that's what it is.

[Gserpent]

Small minded opinion. You shouldn't HAVE to leave a server you like or your friends are on just to get a house. That is ridiculous.

You shouldn't have to, but that's the way things are and that will not be changing. Ever. They would have to do an unbelievable amount of work to move from "physical" housing to instanced housing, to the point that it would be an XIV-2 kind of thing.

Besides, with DC travel, it doesn't really matter what world or DC you're on. It's very easy to play with friends.

Specific to the OP, a property tax or whatever would be pointless. There are virtually no meaningful gil sinks in the game, so people tend to accrue lots of gil over time. You'd have to make the fee like tens of millions of gil per month for it to be remotely meaningful.

[DeNada]

You shouldn't have to, but that's the way things are and that will not be changing. Ever. They would have to do an unbelievable amount of work to move from "physical" housing to instanced housing, to the point that it would be an XIV-2 kind of thing.

Besides, with DC travel, it doesn't really matter what world or DC you're on. It's very easy to play with friends.

Specific to the OP, a property tax or whatever would be pointless. There are virtually no meaningful gil sinks in the game, so people tend to accrue lots of gil over time. You'd have to make the fee like tens of millions of gil per month for it to be remotely meaningful.

Maybe a monthly mortgage of 5% of the original plot price?

That way, only players who really want a home to decorate or RP venues would buy and utilize the houses rather than. The current situation where a number of players simply purchase them due to their scarcity and FOMO.

I don't think the amount is too exorbitant either for a normal player as 5% of a cottage is only around 150k gil per month and you could easily make back that amount in a single round of daily roulettes.

Though my suggestion is not to punish players but to lessen the demand of houses so that those players who really want them and are willing to pay the mortgage can have better access to the limited housing.

Of course, if there comes a day where any player can own a house on their preferred server with no server limitations (eg instanced housing), then the mortgage can be lifted.