Lone Wolf Leonhart
07-07-2017, 02:07 AM
Final Fantasy XIV players are having legitimate arguments about capitalism vs socialism in regards to in game property.
This Kotaku article is a fascinating read:
http://kotaku.com/two-final-fantasy-xiv-players-buy-dozens-of-homes-spar-1796692020
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Frustration over Final Fantasy XIV’s housing shortage has come to a head after two players angered a lot of others by buying up 28 homes in the land-strapped massively multiplayer online game. Now, players are questioning whether virtual housing is an equal right or a privilege meant for the rich and over-dedicated.
The two players bought their homes in a formerly vacant corner of the game, a server called Mateus, where they could pursue dual ambitions of opulence and privacy. Their critics say they’ve hoarded land from dozens of FFXIV citizens, who feel they deserve a chance at housing. That criticism has gotten ugly as players hotly debate whether their elitism—or desire for mass amounts of property—has any place in a game where everybody pays the same fee.
On a now-viral Tumblr post in response to public outcry, Altima wrote, “Many people feel entitled to own a house. They feel that even knowing there are only 2,160 plots (soon to be 2,880) on any given server, they can and should be allowed to go at their own pace and have free access to any content they like, including housing. They want a house of their own, but they don’t want to accept that lots of other people want it badly enough to work harder for it than they did.”
I think general consensus is that buying 28 homes is patently ridiculous as a concept, but they aren't technically doing anything wrong, and they even moved to an unpopular server to do it. It would be more of an issue if they tried to do it on an overcrowded server. But at the end of the day, it's on Square to make more plots of digital land.
This Kotaku article is a fascinating read:
http://kotaku.com/two-final-fantasy-xiv-players-buy-dozens-of-homes-spar-1796692020
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Frustration over Final Fantasy XIV’s housing shortage has come to a head after two players angered a lot of others by buying up 28 homes in the land-strapped massively multiplayer online game. Now, players are questioning whether virtual housing is an equal right or a privilege meant for the rich and over-dedicated.
The two players bought their homes in a formerly vacant corner of the game, a server called Mateus, where they could pursue dual ambitions of opulence and privacy. Their critics say they’ve hoarded land from dozens of FFXIV citizens, who feel they deserve a chance at housing. That criticism has gotten ugly as players hotly debate whether their elitism—or desire for mass amounts of property—has any place in a game where everybody pays the same fee.
On a now-viral Tumblr post in response to public outcry, Altima wrote, “Many people feel entitled to own a house. They feel that even knowing there are only 2,160 plots (soon to be 2,880) on any given server, they can and should be allowed to go at their own pace and have free access to any content they like, including housing. They want a house of their own, but they don’t want to accept that lots of other people want it badly enough to work harder for it than they did.”
I think general consensus is that buying 28 homes is patently ridiculous as a concept, but they aren't technically doing anything wrong, and they even moved to an unpopular server to do it. It would be more of an issue if they tried to do it on an overcrowded server. But at the end of the day, it's on Square to make more plots of digital land.