Balmung is Homeless on Christmas' Eve. Is this really what you wanted, Yoshida-san?

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Originally Posted by Savage12

I would like to thank SE for making the houses so expensive.I would normally have to spend all night freezing my butt off delivering presents but you guys made it possible for me to be done in an hour.Sorry for all the people that expected presents when they woke up but Santa doesnt deliver to inns.

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This is full of win. You sir/lady win the thread.

I think it's funny that the people who stuck around after the disaster that was ffxiv 1.0, got screwed over so hard.

There are zero houses on Hyperion.

I was okay with housing prices before 2.1 hit. But after 2.1, the economy took a dump due to SE undercutting their whole player base by flooding the market with easily obtainable items (materia and mats). WTF! Will it ever rebound? Time will tell but time is something SE can't afford. I log in just to hit myth cap... never thought I'd ever say that. sigh.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

People are also forgetting that the current housing is guild halls. They've been expensive in pretty much every MMO with a comparable feature; Personal housing will not cost as much.

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Just wanted to jump in here and say I haven't ever seen a Guild House this expensive. Before you begin to list the plethora of 'expensive' guild houses, think about the economy. After an entire week I netted a profit after 2.1 of a total 20k..... Previous weekly profit? 50-100k. 2.1 shot down several farmable markets (fleece, crystals, even materia due to the story rewards).

Whether or not it introduced new markets is also debatable considering most of the new features were targeted towards crafters / gatherers.

In any case, even at its lowest, it's still too high. My off the wall theory as to why they're so unobtainable? SE just doesn't have the man power to keep up with the FC's on each server, which I think is understandable. However, they shouldn't have even released this content until they were sure they could provide a decent amount of houses in relation to the number of FC's on each server.

Many of my friends are already looking to other MMOs. Not a good sign at all.

Yup they're too expensive. Hope it gets fixed like they said they would.

Anyone arguing otherwise, is blind or daft. Hopefully it just gets fixed
over time like they said.

I hope no one had to share the same cruel fate as Nello and Patrasche.
In memoriam.

Been looking around 3 zones, found 0 houses (Masamune)

Honestly my biggest gripe isn't necessarily with the price. (Although the price is also majorly of the problem)

Here's my issue with FC housing at this point:

- Massive amount of gil (somewhat ok with this, long term goal to work for)
- For a house that only the guild leader owns...(Yes, authority can be given to members. But in the end it's the leader who can basically do whatever s/he wants)

I'm somewhat fine working hard to obtain something like housing. But I want it to be something that I own. Having to work hard to earn gil, only to give it to someone else isn't all that satisfying. Mind you, I am collecting gil to help my FC get one. But at the moment, I'm keeping every penny in my pocket. Until the day that my FC is close to the amount needed.

Because honestly, personal housing might end up being released by that time anyway...And with the current prices, they could have easily made personal housing a priority. Because at the moment nobody has the money to buy anything larger than an M-sized one!

At least with personal, more people might have gone with S-sized ones.

I honestly find it almost sad that such lovely housing zones are going to be mostly vacant for a long time.

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Originally Posted by Cid_Grim

Everyone saved all their Gil, preparing to buy a house upon release, not realizing that the prices were going to be determined by how much Gil the server had upon release.

We did this to ourselves. Good luck getting the prices changed.

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And good luck with this game keeping a healthy amount of subs.....! SE cannot afford another bomb of fail! Their stocks/cash flow aren't sitting well, so yeah they'd better listen or fans will just close their wallets!