[Aerona]

As soma mentioned, the only houses that are really dangerous are the small houses since Fire Field and EQ hit everywhere inside. I especially won't be making changes that allows griefing, AND limits that griefing to new players in the only house they can afford starting out.

This right here was my primary concern. As a new player who just recently joined, I don't even have a house yet, but I was looking at getting one... I love PvP as much as the next person, but after reading the whole houselooting debate and whatnot, it's a bit alarming that I could pay so much gold to get a house that would be pointless and offer no defense, and also be lootable. I'm new and broke, there's no way I'd put anything valuable in such a place if it's a risk -- you're only going to encourage people to macro in the mercenary camp and leave stuff in their bank.

In short, if a house cannot be used as a storage location, or as a defensive location, then what good is it? How would it be worth the money? As someone else said, at that point it's merely pixel crack and has no useful purpose.