On why Housing Prices are High

[d4rkie]

I assume it's because there are not enough servers for everyone wanting one. The are just oh so many lots in one instance of the housing area. If you count the current server populations and consider that all the housing areas are instanced you could somehow justify the prices.

Well, I'm still waiting for personal housing, so I can wait until all this settles down

[Durthane]

The only reasons that make sense to me are getting gil from past exploits out of the system, RMT bait, or hardware limitations as you state. Not good reasons, but they might be what SE is thinking.

[Thagyr]

That is something some thought about when they announced that 2.1 is FC housing only rather than 'everyone' housing.

But you can say something like that is a poor excuse if it is the truth. Players are used to having gates on their content, but its usually not based on the hardware of the game. Since that just alienates the player, and just makes SE look like some cheap miser looking to cut corners wherever possible.

Get in while the cardboard box servers can handle it!

The other possible reason is the 'gil-sink' theory. But again, placing such a gate on content in an attempt to encourage the rich players to leave their funds is silly. Since it really doesn't force the rich players to do anything. They can just sit on their gil-mountain regardless and not care for housing. In fact as a player on a Legacy world I can say that for a surety, since Balmungs economy is in a state of collapse since everyone is selling (RMT botters have collapsed the Materia market hard) but nobody is buying. I'm not sure if SE has got an exact idea of how much gil is in circulation at all at this point.

[DoctorMog]

Hardware issue or not, I would rather own a laggy house than none at all.

[Lilith]

Hardware issue or not, I would rather own a laggy house than none at all.

Maybe it's not about lag, but about crashing servers.

[Ksenia]

It isn't about Lag. If they disable all combat like they do in the Inn rooms, the servers should actually be able to handle populations better with half the people in controlled instances like Housing zones.

[Dashuto]

Just throwing this out here, it could be pretty hairbrained and I'm aware of that so dont bother sassing me for it.

What if they counted RMT into the world gil total? (They probably did). But what if some of these guys are carrying WAY more than we ever thought?

But it could be even worse. We all know thanks to our Blists that they rarely delete the RMT characters, they're just made inactive/jailed. So what if all the inactive RMT carrying 100m each are being counted too?

[Zumi]

They could of easily made it a client side instance like inn rooms, or mog houses in ffxi, wouldn't tax the servers much at all.

[AjoraOak]

Maybe it's not about lag, but about crashing servers.

That's nothing new with SE, servers already seem unstable pretty often. I have to figure there's a huge amount of bugs in the housing as well that only those lucky enough to amass a fortune that would get them banned for being rmts (haha) will see.