Hey Yoshi, you said personal housing "will be far more affordable."

[Antanias]

Ahhh, you're applying for a position with Yoshi's PR team?

They don't have an office big enough to hold even 0.001% of the yarn I give out to my fellow miqo'te :3

What happens to all houses so it is the same? Yes, it will be more affordable, but thats not the lie, the lie is more affordable THAN FC HOUSING. And they are almost the same.

I prefer to think of it as "at least we're not starting from the 2.1 prices". Those were waaaaaay worse.

[Radacci]

it is affordable.
i have 3mil, and i NEVER even tried to make money. and i bothered even less than normal, past 2-3 months.
just do daily roulettes, and maps, and you'll get millions, in a month, just from that. then you can do daily beast, and leves, etc.
or just SB a bit, and sell materias.
it's so easy to get gil, even on casual level, so i duno what ppl complaining about.
If you can't afford it, you're not even playing the content, the game has to offer.

[Vaeix]

It will be more affordable though, because the prices are lowered every 6 earth hours

Right and housing will be completely sold out by the time this patch has been out for 24 hours. The big issue i have is resell value. People will be buying these houses just to take them off market and sell them at a higher price once the the demand is high and there is no availability. That's assuming they will implement a way to sell personal housing to other players.

[CGMidlander]

Oh please. Yoshi's post was for patch 2.1 forecasts.

I guess he could have spoken in really vague legalese to "cover his butt", but nobody with any common sense should be surprised that situations and decisions may change after numerous patches.

[Risvertasashi]

Oh please. Yoshi's post was for patch 2.1 forecasts.

I guess he could have spoken in really vague legalese to "cover his butt", but nobody with any common sense should be surprised that situations and decisions may change after numerous patches.

Even if you take out the specific forecasts, his post conveyed two things:

1. Personal housing will be separate from FC housing.
2. Personal housing will be more accessible (affordable) than FC housing.

Failed to deliver on both.

[Xine]

Right and housing will be completely sold out by the time this patch has been out for 24 hours. The big issue i have is resell value. People will be buying these houses just to take them off market and sell them at a higher price once the the demand is high and there is no availability. That's assuming they will implement a way to sell personal housing to other players.

There is no resale value, once a house/plot is bought it can't be sold, you simply lose the gil by basically giving up the plot. This was mentioned in the patch notes when FC housing was first implemented months ago.

[Tule]

There is no resale value, once a house/plot is bought it can't be sold, you simply lose the gil by basically giving up the plot. This was mentioned in the patch notes when FC housing was first implemented months ago.

Although unreliable you could technically sell your plot's availability. Relinquishing your plot at a specific time while someone readies to purchase it.

[StateAlchemist]

There is no resale value, once a house/plot is bought it can't be sold, you simply lose the gil by basically giving up the plot. This was mentioned in the patch notes when FC housing was first implemented months ago.

That just means that plots will be bought and left empty until they are sellable.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

There is no resale value, once a house/plot is bought it can't be sold, you simply lose the gil by basically giving up the plot. This was mentioned in the patch notes when FC housing was first implemented months ago.

You can buy the plot. The offer to "relinquish" it by a set price to someone that really wants it.

There are serveral nice positioned small houses i can think of, even if not, being arround 120 small houses for a full server of people wanting it, buying it for 4.000.000 gil and then asking any price below the medium housing price is more than possible, you just have to compromise and do everything via private chat so you can properly relinquish that land and the other player can get it.

I can easily see PF full of small houses for arround 15 to 20 million tomorrow. Same happening to medium and big houses. So, the worst part of it, plots are going to be sold, another "legal gap" in SE mindset of making things rare and locked out from everyone.

This will work just like primal/coil clears in a way.

[CGMidlander]

Even if you take out the specific forecasts, his post conveyed two things:

1. Personal housing will be separate from FC housing.
2. Personal housing will be more accessible (affordable) than FC housing.

Failed to deliver on both.

Your post does not say anything against the possibility of decisions changing following several patches. (i.e. The primary point)