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

[Taika]

Great post OP, agreed 100%.

It basically keeps the most anticipated and publicized feature of patch 2.1 away from a very large part of the playerbase.

This is what bugs me the most. The way they've been showing off this feature in live letters for a year (I think, didn't check) made players think this would be a feature available to all Free Companies. I'm sure many thought they were available for them right on the patch day. Then they showed us these prices and everyone was shocked.

Now I'm not against long-term goals in a MMO - on the contratry. But this feature hasn't been marketed as such, and hence the disappointment. And even if it had been, it's extremely demotivating having to save up months and months just for a slice of land (a small one, on the lowest rate area). It would be very different if we could at least get a land, to have something to work with, and then start building our house, even if very slowly... I don't know. I just feel, once again, like I've been completely mislead by SE.

Our FC had saved up 2M gil. Most our members have somewhere between 100k and 1M. On Balmung, a Legacy server where the smallest land on lowest rate area costs 20M. This just doesn't make any sense to me.

[Rosy]

Even more so when they write in deep red text under the "Purchasing land" heading on the patch notes

What is more worrying is that people already buying from RMTs will not only continue to do so, but will purchase MORE. There would be NO RMT problems if players didn't buy the gil....nil....nada....no problems, so somebody is still buying from them. Now with these ridiculous house prices, you genuinely believe these people will stop using RMTs? Nope, you are encouraging MORE people to use them. I'm thinking the gil sellers are sitting there laughing their heads off and rubbing their hands with the prospects of so many sales next week. Way to go SE, let's finance the drug cartels eh?

[Bearssi]

While i was still playing (the free month) i massed around 400 000 gil from just leves and such and i did not fiddle with the market boards. I would call this about 400k a month an amount as much as casual as it can be for a player not taking advantage of other players impulsive buying. The gil gets spent on potions/food/repair as a raider, if a fc wants a house they should stop raiding?
The house prices i have read about seem cater towards players that use other means of gil accusation than normal gameplay.

PS. The disparity of the prices on different servers looks like a paid server transfer promotion. Just weird stuff.

[Grizzlebeard]

I'd imagine the average player aside from being disgusted, shocked, and disappointed at the FC housing prices is going to be thinking what kind of stupidity lies around the corner for player housing, assuming it ever makes it in to the game. I can safely say I won't be dumping millions of gil in to a shared house that I'll only gain the benefit of as long as the FC is active when a similarly idiotic pricing structure will no doubt be introduced for individual player housing.

I'm also a little angry that considerable development time was wasted on something a tiny portion of the server will experience in the significant future when other areas of the game are screaming for attention.

[AyaneKiwara]

Our FC had saved up 2M gil. Most our members have somewhere between 100k and 1M. On Balmung, a Legacy server where the smallest land on lowest rate area costs 20M. This just doesn't make any sense to me.

We're in the same boat. My company has saved up 2m, thinking it would at least put us close, only to find out that we're only 10% of the way to the smallest land.

[Sygmaelle]

Well aware that was 'FC' housing, the point people are trying to make is that we didn't all jump on the atomos bandwagon in 1.0, we haven't jumped on the Titam sales bandwagon in 2.0, some of us have relatively small FCs so prices are just unrealistic for anything other than the tiniest plot. I get that maybe if I don't have a big fc I don't 'deserve' a big house, but I at least wanted to shoot for medium, but at my current rate of play, the player housing will be out before we can afford it!

Im not from legacy, I dont have any craft job and yet I got 40 millions. Didn't buy gold at RMT, only materias sells since release. Soooooooooooo ... it's either people are exageratin or they did it very very wrong

[Grizzlebeard]

Im not from legacy, I dont have any craft job and yet I got 40 millions. Didn't buy gold at RMT, only materias sells since release. Soooooooooooo ... it's either people are exageratin or they did it very very wrong

Yeah, somehow I don't believe you.

[CrAZYVIC]

I hope the Price is Troll or joke of Yoshi-p To the comunity.

But if this is true.

He wish buy a House be something memorial and epic for all the your FC members.

The grind this could take are 2 - 8 months depending the Size of your FC.

The FC with high population probably in less of 60 days will have a House
The FC with Medium population in 90 - 120 days of hard work will buy one
The low Man FC probably over six months of work.

I already asked one my FC Leaders. In which Street we will be selling our bodies for buy this House. Because Farming/Crafting will be Tough.

[Jilse]

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

And they should complain. The JP legacy servers are double the cost of Balmung. Ridill, where I transferred from, is 625 million for a large plot, 50 for small.

[Exantra]

It certainly is a bit of a disappointment. Having recently started up a new Roleplay FC in which the housing was going to be the main focal point of what we intended to do, we were only ever going to have a handful of members at the most. I don't think any of us were expecting to put up any more than a million to the cause, so you can imagine the surprise when we came to realise the smallest plot of land for the server we're situated on had a base cost of 20 million. Making money isn't at the forefront of why we play in the first place, so for now our plans have had to be put on an indefinite hold.

The plight of being non legacy players on a legacy server, I suppose.