The Cost of Living in Eorzea

[Dark-Saviour]

Design for Personal House is the same for FC housing but the price is most likely different due to how there payment are based on with FC being a community price while Personal is individual price.

Unless they opt to go the "You get a room in the FC house." route to further reduce the risk of needing to enhance their instance servers.
(Which would massively suck for those of us not doing the whole guild thing.)

[Raagnar]

Design for Personal House is the same for FC housing but the price is most likely different due to how there payment are based on with FC being a community price while Personal is individual price.

FC Housing benefits is for DoH such as more DoH exp and DoH buffs.

Personal House provides more personal benefits such as small stat boosts and other personal benefits.

Not sure where you get this information about the specific benefits of each and that the design is exactly the same.. but ok

[EdwinLi]

Not sure where you get this information about the specific benefits of each and that the design is exactly the same.. but ok

mostly from a very old interview but here is the point where it is answered.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._about_guilds/

Q: Will houses be personal or shared?

A: First it will be joint housing. A house of this size is going to require everyone to dish out some dough. It’s pretty expensive. You can make furniture available to people of the same free company, or, if you want, you can set permission levels so all of your friends can use the furniture and what not. There are quite a few settings.
The reason why we’ve decided to establish them as free company bases first is because inside of the houses there is a new kind of system that involves parks and towers.
Parks would give a bonus to everyone in the free company, like an extra 25% to experience points earned. It could make crafting faster to level, or maybe give success bonuses for HQ crafting. It's a system that allows members to add things that will give boons to the entire free company. You’ll be able to increase the size of your house, and also your company can rank-up through free company points, allowing you to place more parks and towers around.
I’d first like to create a strong community within FFXIV. When new members join, you’ll be able to get more points, and we’d like to establish a system that encourages people to support new players coming into the game. Once the community has had time to come together we will then allow players to have their own private housing and branch out from there
Even for an MMO, I believe it’s nice to have a place to call home.

Q1: What’s the difference between Free Company housing and individual player housing?

A1: Fundamentally, there will not be many differences since individual housing will have the same features as Free Company housing when it is released; however, there will be differences in regards to whether the parks and towers are set for personal use or for Free Company members.

[Zourin]

Also, how can people expect to make money to purchase a house ... when everyone is not buying anything from the already crappy markets anymore ... BECAUSE they are all saving for a house or have spent all their money on one already anyway! D:

lets not forget the gear being handed out like candy by the NPC's and dungeons that bypass crafting classes and the market entirely!

[cearka]

basing pricing on gil in circulation by server is somewhat misguided to begin with. The methods of producing gil are the same regardless of server (we're not talking about marketplace sales, that just moves gil from player to player). Leves, quest rewards, merchant sales, etc, are the same server to server. Thus the 20 million for the worst house is exponentially harder to buy the the worst house on a 4 million server.

On a side note, buying a house in real life is rather challenging for many people, something that's out of many peoples reach. I actually own a house is real life (not a cheap house either), and I can tell you that buying a house in FFXIV seems way harder then buying a house in real life.

[Raydeus]

The Cost of Living in Eorzea

I like it when SCHs publish scholarly things.

Plus I agree about the flaws in SE's logic. If anything all this will accomplish is give RMT a very, very Merry Christmas.

[Raagnar]

mostly from a very old interview but here is the point where it is answered.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._about_guilds/

Ok, based on very old interviews and information.. Goobbue mount was 1.0 exclusive and small FC housing would be attainable by 5 players lvling 1-50 through quests pooling gil.

Everything is subject to change which has obviously happened going by your quote and the current patch notes. This is what we get for assuming too much so im not putting my faith into personal housing, but you can look forward to it, at their pace you should only be waiting 9 months.

[EdwinLi]

Ok, based on very old interviews and information.. Goobbue mount was 1.0 exclusive and small FC housing would be attainable by 5 players lvling 1-50 through quests pooling gil. Everything is subject to change. This is what we get for assuming too much so im not putting my faith into personal housing, but you can look forward to it, at their pace you should only be waiting 9 months.

Old but they certainly kept their word so far including the part that FC Housing will be very expensive.

I still think the the price for FC Housing is outrageous.

[Cegiana]

Goobbue mount was 1.0 exclusive and small FC housing would be attainable by 5 players lvling 1-50 through quests pooling gil.

Those are 2 very excellent points, my goobbue mount was supposed to be special for doing the 1.0-1.23 storylines, now everyone will have one... And I do remember reading that small FC housing would be attainable by 5 players lvling 1-50 through quests pooling gil, last time I checked, a small house is 40 million here on Aegis, that means we earn 8 million gil each by doing the main storyline lvl1-50... Is it really that hard for them to do as they promised?

[Alhanelem]

What i don't understand is why the land itself seems to be the bulk of the cost. Why not make the land cheaper an be able to set up a bare-bones house, and then upgrade it as th company's resources allow?