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

[JTSpender]

My big issue as a legacy player isn't the starting prices on the legacy servers, it's the scaling. The point of the scaling "auction" system is that people who have a ton of money get access to these resources first; and that's fine.

What I would like to see is for the starting prices to stay the same as they are now but for the price reduction factor to also vary between worlds and be set such that the "final" price after 90 days of reductions without a plot being purchased ends up the same on all worlds.

People will still spend tons of money and prices will still be much higher on the legacy servers because this content is popular and people will be snapping lots up when they've only been on the market for a little while. This will still be a huge gil sink. My suggestion just makes it so that once we've burned through the thin layer of really wealthy FCs at the top, it'll get down to something more accessible for everyone else.

[Ramesses]

While I think the prices need to be lowered dropping a zero is too much. The most expensive parcel shouldn't go from 312.5mil to 31.25mil that's just stupid ridiculous. I'd much rather see prices dropped say %30-40% across the board

Apparently 156 others, myself included, think otherwise.

I'm not sure you're following the clear rationale that the OP explained in his post, neither have you even began to factor in the costs of furnishing the place. The 312 million (on Excalibur server for example) is just for the plot. Remember, the components for the housing is still a separate matter... they will either be crafted, purchased from vendors, or obtained by exchanging company seals.

And as already expressed in this thread, those prices literally obliterate the hope and dreams of smaller FCs.

[KenzieLynch]

Just a random question about housing because I don't want to make an entire thread for it...

Will we be able to enter and take look at the housing areas without buying a house?

[Linadae]

I'm not sure what they were smoking when they came up with these prices but they really need to share it...

I have a grand total of 20k and if personal housing follows the same pattern I'll be living in the Inn til the servers are shut down for good.

btw my FC has legacy members with 100 mil+ and even they feel this is excessive.

Even the Japanese players are complaining. Hopefully SE will see reason since the complaints are worldwide now.

[ryner47]

i don't know man se really disapoint me just make my group want to quite

[jebali]

I find it stupid overall I know this game is Japanese and they are diff then the rest of us.
we strive for personal goals and they strive for group but even with that games are not the same. I know many Japanese game players and they are on the same wave length as the western players.
I do wonder how hard this is going to fail on the jp servers since those are the only people SE care about. They do not really use forums for anything so its hard to judge the reaction on that side yet.

what I know is there is no chance in hell I am giving any FC all my gill for anything. What is to stop them from kicking me from a fc after I have gone broke... nothing.

[AdamuKun322]

I'm an FC on Faerie and we've broken 500. However, less than half of us are active.

[Dirosei]

You got Phoenix's support too, Abriael.

Another niche that easily gets looked over is the roleplay community. I can't tell you how many people were looking forward to this, as FFXIV has been very conducive to RP, and have had their dreams about it utterly crushed to the point to where they don't even look forward to playing anymore.

[Azreyal]

You got Phoenix's support too, Abriael.

Another niche that easily gets looked over is the roleplay community. I can't tell you how many people were looking forward to this, as FFXIV has been very conducive to RP, and have had their dreams about it utterly crushed to the point to where they don't even look forward to playing anymore.

Pretty much!

I was pretty burnt out the past week on the game, and a couple of us ended up just playing some other things for a bit to relax and come back to something fresh. Now we, and many of our friends, are sort of bummed at the absolutely astronomical prices that even the smallest plots take to buy on Balmung, and the burnout is simply extended.

[Aylis]

Just a random question about housing because I don't want to make an entire thread for it...

Will we be able to enter and take look at the housing areas without buying a house?

I don't know if its been confirmed, but I would think so.