WHAT?! 625 Million for first class House?

[Azreyal]

Target audience is extremely crucial. Player housing has always been more of a RP/Casual aspect to any MMO, and it makes very little sense to make it solely accessible to the hardcore crowd. I don't mean hardcore as in raiding coils with the best gear in the game, either. I mean hardcore as in having the time and energy to dedicate to churning out 1 mil+ a day with crafting, gathering, or item flipping.

Balmung is one of the unofficial roleplay servers, and the legacy one at that. We got shoved into the higher price brackets, but to be quite honest? A lot of roleplayers just play the game to...roleplay. I personally enjoy all facets of any MMO I play, but most of my FC is clueless when it comes to things like playing the market or reluctant to take the time they could be RPing or PvEing to level DoH/DoL classes.

Also, Yoshi P did say that the housing would not cost nearly this much when it was announced, and thus many of us had unclear expectations.