Who's going to try and get their house when servers come up?

So who here is going to try and get a deal on a house from the old wards when the servers go back up? I am guessing the devalued houses will sell fast. Which ward would you try for? I don't know but on my server Uldah is really unpopular but gridinia and limsa are pretty full.

I thought I was, even had savings set aside, until I saw those prices.

Just so you know you need a free company rank 6 to buy a Plot for a house.

Even when you buy the land the house permit is another 500k
If your FC don't pitch in to buy a how or you are penny pinching you are gonna lose out pure and simple.

Don't blame SE blame your company if they want it, why aren't they helping.

Especially if its a medium or large.

No one in their right mind would, other then gill buyers, but they don't understand or care for the value of things anyway so it won't mean anything to them. the actual legit players i doubt it, even if i had massive riches i would not buy them at those prices.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

So who here is going to try and get a deal on a house from the old wards when the servers go back up? I am guessing the devalued houses will sell fast. Which ward would you try for? I don't know but on my server Uldah is really unpopular but gridinia and limsa are pretty full.

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* Pricing for new plots in the 1st through 6th wards will match the prices set in patch 2.38, and will gradually fall based on the devaluation process outlined above.

Was mentioned in the Patch notes.

Even if this worked, and patch notes say it won't, literally every single plot is owned on Excalibur so it wouldn't matter for me =/

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Originally Posted by Kos_Mos

* Pricing for new plots in the 1st through 6th wards will match the prices set in patch 2.38, and will gradually fall based on the devaluation process outlined above.

Was mentioned in the Patch notes.

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Not sure whether to take the 'new' in that quote to include plots that have already been devalued or only 'new' plots after a plot has been abandoned.
If old plots are the same, I'm going to get the plot I've had my eyes set on in uldah[because I really love the style of their houses and am bored of my gridania home]. If they've been reset, I'll wait.
I'll try for whatever ward seems the quietest because I really dislike seeing people spamming skills when I just want to craft by the board in peace.

On legacy servers which have a lot more gil in the economy 5m seems really cheap even for the most expensive small house. You can use the garden and grow stuff like onions for chocobos which sell for 1.5m and easily make back your money.

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Originally Posted by Crankysorc

I'll try for whatever ward seems the quietest because I really dislike seeing people spamming skills when I just want to craft by the board in peace.

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This was the reason I was hoping for personal instance.

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Originally Posted by Volcano

No one in their right mind would, other then gill buyers, but they don't understand or care for the value of things anyway so it won't mean anything to them. the actual legit players i doubt it, even if i had massive riches i would not buy them at those prices.

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I'm going to buy one and I'm neither insane or a gil buyer.

I'm no market genious or master crafter so I really dont get all this outrage about "insane prices". 4m for the best small house seems fine and it will be lowered as time passes along with the housing wards that we will get in... what? 6 weeks?

People need to calm de fck down.

I am going to log in and go buy a house, near the ocean. Luckily I'm on Mateus (I moved from Durandal) so I'm saving gil right there. I'm all vocal out from house pricing, I lost all faith in SE when FC housing game out and they expected people to put down 640m gil so I had no illusions that they would drop the ball again. Also, no need to rush, Mateus has lots of plots free already, the 2 extra wards won't make much of a difference.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

On legacy servers which have a lot more gil in the economy 5m seems really cheap even for the most expensive small house. You can use the garden and grow stuff like onions for chocobos which sell for 1.5m and easily make back your money.

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That's not how the economy works, now that individual people are able to buy houses don't expect gardening to remain profitable.

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Originally Posted by HeroSamson

Just so you know you need a free company rank 6 to buy a Plot for a house.

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no you don't

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Plots in the residential districts will now be available for purchase by individual buyers.
Leaders and members of free companies that already own estates can also choose to purchase plots as individuals.

- Purchasing Land
In order to purchase land, a character must first have attained level 50 in at least one class and also have earned the rank of second lieutenant in one of the Grand Companies. Each character meeting these requirements can purchase a single unowned plot via the placards found within the residential districts.
Plots of any size and within any ward may be purchased.

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where in there does it say your FC has to be rank 6? that requirement is only if your FC is buying a house not if you are

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Originally Posted by Alukah

That's not how the economy works, now that individual people are able to buy houses don't expect gardening to remain profitable.

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It will still be profitable only 2 wards got added

Nah.

I personally didn't care about housing at the FC stage. I saw it as nothing but a vanity item, with no purpose rather than a decorating minigame. Saying that, I thought it was cute. Just not worth a ridiculous amount of gil in my mind. Respect to people that want to do it, and I'll admire other houses from time to time. However! I became interested in it because of gardening / chocobo raising, which are excellent ways to make money and do overworld content like alex maps more reliably respectively. Then I saw the price.

I can actually afford a small house in a crappy area on a legacy server, but nah. I'm not paying that, because personally I don't want to throw my gil at SE as positive reinforcement for this.

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Originally Posted by Crankysorc

Not sure whether to take the 'new' in that quote to include plots that have already been devalued or only 'new' plots after a plot has been abandoned.

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We'll know soon. But it occurs to me that if -all- available plots are going up to these prices then it's not just a problem for individual houses. I know a few FCs that have been saving up for FC houses and this will mess them up too.

I intended to.

But Sargatanas' housing wards have been full for months. There are entire FCs who want to experience housing content and haven't yet been able to. I could not justify buying an identical house to the one my FC owns for essentially an extra garden plot (which I very much do want) if it meant blocking the content to entire groups of other players.

I'll wait until the weekend and get one then, as by then presumably any FCs that were desperate will have made the purchase.

Of course, i fully expect both Wards in all three zones to be sold out within an hour of servers going back up today.

http://i.imgur.com/IeifLFv.jpg

Balmung 10 minutes after patch.

I am sure, when I come home from work, most small Houses on Ragnarok will be sold out already. Not having the money (or willing to invest so much) for a medium house, no I will probably not get one. And I am pissed because they made us wait so long and then come up with moon prices again, especially after the 1st debacle when FC housing came out. History repeating and of course, a bad part of the History is repeating here.

When I remember all the complaints about the prices and we talked about an FC house back then where a whole guild could work together and now similiar prices for single players?

SE sold a lot more copies than they could have ever imagined. 2 million players, big success, big money. But reinvestments in Servers? Nope. Continue with the old program like only 100.000 players are on their Worlds. Please SE, be at least honest and admit what's going on here and why you install such absurd requirements again.

It is all about Server costs and nothing else why we have these moon prices. Truth is (as far as I can guess), their servers wouldn't be able to deal with everybody having a personal house. Their infrastructure just doesn't seem to be good enough for it. And that's something I cannot accept when I read how pleasantly suprised they are about the unexpected amount of players they have on monthly subscriptions. What do you do with the extra and unexpected money? I do not see any news about hiring more programmers or more Servers. I am sure some CEO's are happy now but to hell with them.

I slowly get sick about their way to release something where you either have to wait for a long time to use it or get so demotivated that you don't care about it anymore.

Unfortunately I had to leave for work before servers went up (really wish they would have been up on time), I will buy one if any are left, but I doubt there will be.

I will get house after 2.4 at same ward where my fc house is located. Now just need to work on making more gil.

The Goblet on Behemoth is still mostly empty past Ward 2. So now there are 6 almost empty Wards. Though the prices didn't change in 2-6.

Got my house. Was like 2 sec too late from getting the one i wanted. But the house I ended up with still has a good view. Was worth staying up till 4. All the smalls are almost gone. Plenty of Med, Large for FC left.

report from excalibur...all the small house in mist sold out in less than 10-20 min after server come up. have not check goblet & lavender but assume they are both out of small house

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

report from excalibur...all the small house in mist sold out in less than 10-20 min after server come up. have not check goblet & lavender but assume they are both out of small house

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Sarg selling out fast too, when i logged on was about half gone. Legacy has so much more gil plus high pop. I went for mist to get a beach house.