(08-25-2016, 12:52 PM)Gegenji Wrote: But if they can't resell the house for a profit, would they then even bother to buy it in the first place? I mean, I'm assuming the reason they're buying the houses BECAUSE they can get their gil back plus loads extra on the resale. It's an investment for payout - buying the houses for the express purpose of reselling them rather than use them. So, if they're not able to sell the houses anymore, that means no profit to be had from the purchase and thus it's a "waste of gil" unless they're going to actually use the house.The first part of this. Because lets face it, the ruling is not going to get overturned. This is not fluffy gray area anymore, it really never was. This isn't and investment, it is extortion. This isn't a legitimate way to make money in the game, it is a shitty one that abuses housing system as it presently stands. The people buying houses to hold the plot and sell back at a ridiculous rate are doing something wrong. The wrong has gotten so out of hand that SE and Yoshi-P himself addressed this in a live letter and gave a clear stance. They made it pretty clear they don't like people doing this and will take action against those players. By not reporting the abuse of the system you enable the scam and extortion to continue. When players abusing the system get reported, the plots come back up eventually to be sold at the regular price. Either when the GMs free up the plot, or lack of using of the house due to banning cause it to do so.Â
... Or hold the houses hostage out of spite until the ruling is overturned or something.
You are not making it any more or less harde for other people to buy a house by reporting people for plot sitting for fun and profit. The people that are plot sitting for fun and profit already made it harder for you by doing the wrong thing and breaking the ToS. As described above, if anything you are freeing up the land to be sold at a reasonable rated down the road. And as Gegenji pointed out, you remove the reason they bought the land in the first place, which was to extort people for an ridiculous profit. If you are 1. paying their gigantic amounts of ransom money to get them to move out of a plot (and THEN paying the housing costs on top of that), or 2. not reporting their breach of the ToS. You are almost part of the problem, you have given your tacit approval to a vulture player's actions. You also kinda have zero room to complain about any of the costs for getting housing right now.
