Quote Originally Posted by Pellegri View Post
Who really has this kind of gil to fork out? oh I don't know.....your entire free company like the housing is meant for? You didn't honestly think you would get a large house as a small fc did you? This entire thing is meant to make fcs work together to come up with the cost, not a single person or 2 like so many seem to think.
Good luck finding people dumb enough to put in millions of gil towards a FC that they don't own, especially since even if 1 person in your FC buys gil, you're entire 100s of millions that were invested could disappear. You can pretend people work like that but only close friends would invest like that and you don't have 100 close RL friends on your server. Just because an idea looks good on paper, doesn't mean it automatically works out when tested. They hit some seriously bad PR with this decision and in the next day or so, it will spread across the gaming news sites like crazy. Seeing as how they kept promoting FC housing with their live letters and promo videos, this is going to end up looking HORRIBLE on FFXIV's end.

The way to measure how bad of an idea the FC pricing was can be compared to another one of their great ideas, The Spirits Within, a gigantic disaster with an upcoming financial hit (there are those that are leaving after finding out they were mislead about the FC housing this entire time.)