Hello Zelme. Casual player here. I rarely post, so taking the time to post this means the issue of housing taxes is particulary annoying to me (and others as well apparently).
I bought my houses after the tax reduction, so I never saw how bad it could be. I knew the taxes were supposed to go back up at some point, but holy crap, didn’t think it would be so bad. I know, my bad for not researching more, but don’t you think that it is very much on the crazy side to expect players to pay that EVERY WEEK?
In the MMO’s I’ve played before, owning a house is a fun perk, not a chore.
I’d love to own a bigger house for decorating, but there’s no way I’m doing that at the current tax rates.
When do I get my W2 so I can file my tax return with the 3 different settlements I own houses in? With all my deductions and being over taxed, I am definitely owed money. Yes, I want this to come right out of the territory owning companies pocket too.
Unsure if your response to my post above yours. In my case I bought the 15k home in EV and a 20k home in WW when I was at my peak and logging a lot of hours in game. I like others found the end game loops lacking after putting 1k hours in. Only wanted to play casually at that point to wait on updates. The game wasn’t worth putting in the time to make the payments.
In fairness, 2k isn’t a lot for players who can put in time and effort. However, for casual players, gold incoming is idiocy. I spend fourteen hours a day and I have little to no money to show for it.
I don’t get the magical 10-20k drops for finding rare items. I’m in no position to have items drop from mutated dungeons, because my gear isn’t dropping those level items.
All I seem to do - is spend spend spend, for items out of my reach because those with money, charge prices above and beyond what they should be.
Housing tax is ok for a money sink Devs, but your little bags of juniper berries, are like giving infants money for candy, but those kids, goto the shop, only to find, they can’t actually afford to buy anything.
I’m not defending housing taxes in New World. Yes, they’re too dang high. I was just commenting about property taxes being a sort of rent in real life.
FFS I have mortage payments in RL to pay… Why would I want to do it in a game that is supposed to be fun ?
What you doing today ? Well you know, grinding just to make my weekly payments so I can use my storage, trophies and porting that i already grinded for…
Companies already make more than enough coin from crafting and refining fees…
It’s actually astonishing to me these guys got on the dev update and said this would be a happy medium. Did they think people were running 20% tax rate before the holiday reduction? No, most companies were running between 8-10% before the holiday reduction and maxed it after AGS started printing gold. This has resulted in the taxes being exactly the same as before, and allowing companies to tax up to 2,000 a week per T4 house. Do they think that is fun gameplay to be taxed up to 6,000 a week to keep your houses that you can’t sell or get rid of? I am starting to think that the people in charge don’t play the game at all.
Bump This topic needs to be addressed because some companies are doing this just to troll people. They are very toxic and some really shady dealings behind the scenes.
I vote for high taxes for the insanely rich in real life to make the rich a less insanely rich. In New World… I stopped paying taxes because it makes me poor. Thats a big difference
To me the problem is not that Companies/Carpetbagging low-lifes can set taxes as high as they like - the problem is that the person who laid out cash for a house in that town cannot vote with her/his feet. You can’t sell the house - therefore you don’t own it and the AGS “buy a house… buy THREE!” is a big fat lie.
There will be no balance because AGS is currently treating renters as serfs. Don’t blame the carpetbaggers for being low-life scumbags - it’s their nature - blame AGS.
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PS - The AGS “Make Good” is another lie. It was a “make the rich richer and kick the serfs in the face.” At least that was the effect, regardless of good intentions.
That is a catch 22, they use the taxes to the stations in the town. I think they should use the boards to maintain them, as in, you want a better leather working station, we need X people to do X town board quests by the end of the week… It gets people town rep, gives better incentive to do board quests and Companies don’t get to rob us just to fund their PvP gear.
Or, drop the maintenance cost of towns drastically, so that rent can stay low. I would have thought the second one is a no brainer, but even when they dropped the tax down they still just gave Companies X times what we paid them, so they still got rich off it.
It’s great that the average player pays less, however, paying the owners 5x times the rent collected is now adding massive money into the game. How is this any different than what you (AGS) did in Nov/Dec? What was learned?
This is going to cause huge inflation and the large territory owners are still going to buy up any thing they need/want and the average player wont be able to afford. I don’t see how this solves anything. It also wont stop certain territory owners from using the revenue for RMT.
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