An Open Letter to Yoshida-san: Please Slice One Zero Off the Housing Prices

Same here on Sargatanas. My FC is made up of 30 members and 15 daily players, it would take us over a year and a half (starting from scratch) to make that much. Even with everything that we have pulled together, we still don't have enough for a SMALL lot. The prices are just way too steep, especially when your FC isn't that big. Because of these prices, I have already lost 2 FC members and I am sure more will follow to join a BIGGER FC, making smaller FC's pretty much useless and frustrated. I can recruit all day long, doesn't mean I will get anyone to join and help. I agree, PLEASE reconsider prices.

well,

I logged in last night after 2.1, did odin, got the new dungeons, logged off
and went to sleep. I did sit around for 3 hours, thinking 'nothing new going on here, should I level black mage?' the only real change I noticed was that they consolidated the buttons at the bottom right and revenants changed.
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this has to be the first game where the excuse "we need to wait on hardware" was used.
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I can't tell if I'm supposed to care because nothing that realistically effects me has been added. FC housing is so far out of reach I should be looking forward to personal housing. I do wonder if the whole "need more hardware" thing is going to effect me for that. I think it was probably a bad move on SE's part to promote FC housing so much since at the very least 20% of their FC's wouldn't be able to enjoy it for MONTHS. I would like to see the numbers on the actual amount of PEOPLE that get to enjoy the FC housing instead of just the % of FC's.

Just gonna leave this here. >_>

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Perhaps this has been suggested before, and if so I do apologize, but from what you've written, it seems a large part of this has to do with server capacity. If that's the case, why not put a limiter on how many plots one person or free company can buy? I originally assumed that a person could only own one plot of land, yet your letter says otherwise, why not limit it to two per FC, or even just one?

or you could simply limit plots to 1 per free company....

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Originally Posted by Bartel

And the simple solution becomes, one FC per server for each account. On top of that,make the plots unsellable for 6 months. It's really not hard to figure out a solution. Instead, they give this bullshit reason to cover for the real reason of them not having the server capacity... you'd think they'd learn from launch, but apparently not.

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How hard is it to have multiple in game FCs within a grand virtual FC and then use a common linkshell to communicate (don't tell me you can only have 1 LS per character, this is not WOW)? If this takes away your gaming experience then I can come up with a laundry list of things I'd worry about first.

The other point that I don't understand is the allowance for FCs to buy multiple plots; weren't we supposed to be limited to one?

To the ppeople saying split FC and buy multiples; that takes the time to rank each FC up to be allowed to buy housing - and as I understood it only members of that FC can enter that house. So why would a rich person do that?

People are assuming that the wealthy players, with the money to currently buy a house, are idiots and happy to throw their money at such an outrageously priced novelty feature. It's not just that the poorer FC's won't be buying plots, NOBODY will be. Already enjoying looking at the 0 amount of plots sold in any ward on Sarg, doubt that'll change any time soon.

Also, Yoshi can you please explain how we on Legacy servers are able to use your 20,000gil a day theory in the same way the lowest pricing tier can? Are Legacy servers meant to have FC's more than double amount of members contributing gil or do we magically double our income on Legacy servers just for being here? How is it possible to price your housing using a tiered system when you're using a method of income that's the same for everyone, to "calculate" the aforementioned pricing. Using your maths, price should be the same across the board as we can't pull more gil from the game just because we're on legacy.

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Originally Posted by Kako0404

^This. From someone who set alarms and woke up in the middle of the night for months to water my plants on specific days in order to grow my elemental ores to sell in FFXI the qqing rings hollow. Granted I can't do that anymore but money making is part of any MMO, just like level grinding your character. You always have to do some planning on how to establish a source of income end game. And guess what, if everyone are millionaires in this game, then the plots are gonna be in the billions.

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Now, what if you had to make a ton of gil just to buy a moghouse? What if moghouses were advertised by SE as a major part of a patch that most everyone would be able to enjoy? What if, by not releasing initial pricing, even people who had been saving up for a month or more were completely blindsided by the cost of moghouses? What if only people who play the game for 4+ hours a day had even the slightest chance of affording a moghouse?

I thought I'd do a little hypothetical experiment, to see about the availability of land versus its scarcity or lack thereof. And because I won't stop beating this housing dead horse untii I hit bedrock, tunnel through, and break through Earth's crust to the magma mantle layer.

I am doing a thought experiment based upon the LARGE housing plots: the most expensive ones.

Square-Enix has launched its housing with FIVE 'wards' of each of the THREE different housing zones. Furthermore, I believe that there are 3 large house lots in each of the zones. (Don't cite me on that, there may be more or less in Uldah and Gridania, but I know there are 3 in Limsa Lominsa.)

Now. There are, checking the Lodestone right now, precisely 11 Free Companies on Balmung Server with more than 150 registered members. Let's assume that all 11 decide that they want a LARGE house for their guildhall.

There are literally enough large houses, in the Mist housing area alone, to accommodate all 11 free companies with FOUR empty large house lots left over. Not to mention the leftover THIRTY in the Goblet and Lavender Beds zones.


Let's do it another way. There are 23 companies on Balmung with >100 registered members. There are 45 large housing lots in all wards of all three zones. Literally half of the available large houses are left over, with all of Balmung's large free companies accommodated.


Which leads me to ask...

...who is it they want living in these houses, again?