(09-23-2015, 01:14 AM)Blue Wrote: Now some might argue that, if the game had a built-in refund system, people would not force other players to pay them to leave a plot. But then comes again the fact that housing is an intended gil-sink. So no, there will never be a refund system from the game, and I honestly feel that circumvent this nature by taking the gil of other players is unethical, as well as unfair. If the game made you pay 6M for your house, I don't see why I should pay 21M for it instead, just because I came after you.
Building a system based on the expected altruism of people on the internet is a system designed from the ground up to fail miserably. Since the dawn of digital interaction we've proved that if you give someone on the internet a chance to be a massive jerk, they will be a massive jerk nine times out of ten. Intention doesn't mean jack squat if you don't implement the means to enforce that intention. If SE is honestly surprised that people took advantage of a glaring loophole in the housing system, I would question just how based in reality Yoshi-P's housing team really is.
