What's the current prices for housing currently?

Is it still crazy amounts of gil? We have 11mil saved...

When you select teleport to which housing area from the town, the screen also list the price for all lands for sale.

I don't have access currently to the game - out of town.

Ive seen as low as 1mil to about 12mil on behemoth.

still depends on server and size of house. Small house on Leviathan cost us just a little over 2mil

Can't tell, as almost all of the houses on my server are bought already. Told you SE made them too cheap.

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Originally Posted by PenutButter

... almost all of the houses on my server are bought already. Told you SE made them too cheap.

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They didn't make them too cheap. They just didn't make enough of them. They're supposed to be adding wards whenever the initial ones fill up, and they've been too reluctant to do so. When implementing FC housing, they should have sized their system for every FC to have a house. When implementing personal housing, they should size their system for every character to have a house. If they can't do that, then they aren't ready to be putting in a housing feature in the first place, let alone adding to it.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

They didn't make them too cheap. They just didn't make enough of them. They're supposed to be adding wards whenever the initial ones fill up, and they've been too reluctant to do so. When implementing FC housing, they should have sized their system for every FC to have a house. When implementing personal housing, they should size their system for every character to have a house. If they can't do that, then they aren't ready to be putting in a housing feature in the first place, let alone adding to it.

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So they should know in advance exactly how many fcs will grow to be big enough to buy a house?

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Originally Posted by krazykrusnik

So they should know in advance exactly how many fcs will grow to be big enough to buy a house?

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They know how many FCs there are on each world. They know how many houses are taken and free. Before the housing feature was implemented, they should have ensured that they could (as they said they would) be able to add additional housing wards whenever they're needed.

They've certainly known all along the maximum number that could ever be needed. (It's the same as the number of FCs for FC housing, and the same as the number of characters for character housing.) They can also see when their current wards are filling up, so they also know when that additional capacity becomes needed. They know the total, and they know the timing of how fast demand rises to meet that total. So no, they don't have any "unexpected demand" excuse available to them.

why would they add a whole lot of servers for housing if there not going to be used for years.!?

they add them when needed to keep costs down to save them money and ultimately you as well. there's no business out there that has 10x as much space as currently needed just incase they need it in the future.!?

however I agree that if a server housing is all sold they should add some to that server to accommodate the people who want one but can not get one.

What they should have had from the outset is a clear plan and budgeting in place for adding servers as needed. Then whenever the current wards are 50% full, they should be putting the next server expansion in place, so that once the current wards get to 80% full they can add additional wards. They knew from the outset that these first set of just a few wards at each location wasn't going to last long. And they knew the total it's eventually going to grow to, so they knew what to budget for.

In figuring out what the addition of a housing feature would cost them, they must have looked at the final amount it's going to cost them once nearly every FC and character has a house. Sure, they can spread that cost out a bit by adding the wards gradually as needed, but when they decided to add the feature they surely must have considered the final amount it's eventually going to cost.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

They didn't make them too cheap. They just didn't make enough of them. They're supposed to be adding wards whenever the initial ones fill up, and they've been too reluctant to do so. When implementing FC housing, they should have sized their system for every FC to have a house. When implementing personal housing, they should size their system for every character to have a house. If they can't do that, then they aren't ready to be putting in a housing feature in the first place, let alone adding to it.

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Their overhauling the Ul'Dah wards is likely a response to this because right now we've basically got a full third of the housing stock going unused on most servers.