It appears Japanese players are in agreement.

[Starlord]

1100 out of 600,000. So we're up to 0.2% of the player base. Some majority.

As much as this is true, if any thread get 1k+ likes it usually means something IS obviously wrong, even the people that are hush hush most likely agree with said topic. If it has low amount of likes like 100-250, I still take it as a opinion.

[Beeraga]

8 million gil to purchase a house effectively the size of a free personal mog house in XI which can actually hold 10 more pieces of furniture than these houses. What a bargain!

[Reiterpallasch]

8 million gil to purchase a house effectively the size of a free personal mog house in XI which can actually hold 10 more pieces of furniture than these houses. What a bargain!

Link to the video showing the size of free company housing, please and thank you.

I left FFXI after 7 years because it had devolved into some sort of second job, farming the same sh*t over and over without any real payoff or satisfaction.

That's because that's not how you made money in FFXI. Like, at all. It was very easy to make gil there.

Farming is, and probably always will be, the most inefficient way to make money in a game.

[Gaddes]

The thing that really bothers me are the white knights popping up trying to make these ridiculous prices out to be a "good" thing, to get rid of "casuals." Gil-grinding is not difficult, it is not hardcore; what it is is monotonous and not fun at all. I left FFXI after 7 years because it had devolved into some sort of second job, farming the same sh*t over and over without any real payoff or satisfaction. My fears are that FFXIV could easily become the same thing with ludicrous stuff like this. Buying land (people keep forgetting these crazy prices are just for the land, we haven't even factored in the cost of the house itself or its furnishings) should be something attainable by all... for chrissakes even the grindy FFXI provided homes for free. This is just going to foster more resentment towards the "1%" of Eorzeans and also give elitist @ssholes an additional thing to look down their noses on to those who can't afford it.

In short, it's a very odd classist sort of move on SE's part, and hopefully they see the error of their ways... otherwise this'll serve as just another excuse for people to jump to more fun pursuits and leave all the nasty elitists on the sinking ship.

[GilbertLapine]

Rich people get rich by not spending money foolishly.

What makes you think they are just going to drop 300mil on a house?

Correction: upper-middle-class-kinda-sorta-rich-people get 'rich' by not spending money foolishly.

Rich people usually get rich by being extremely lucky, then they spend their ungodly sums of wealth on inordinately extravagant ventures that happen to suit their mood of the moment.

[FMElan]

The thing that really bothers me are the white knights popping up trying to make these ridiculous prices out to be a "good" thing, to get rid of "casuals."

Those aren't White Knights, man. Those are just elitists.

Honestly, I'm neutral on the whole thing. On the one hand, yeah, this is definitely way more expensive than I intended to pay for a house, and my small FC is nowhere near being able to afford the house I wanted to get. On the other hand, it's still early in the development for this idea, and I expect changes to come in the future, such as a hefty price drop.

Either way, I'm just going to wait and see for the time being, and keep saving up my gil for when housing's more affordable.

[TehfTsala]

8 million gil to purchase a house effectively the size of a free personal mog house in XI which can actually hold 10 more pieces of furniture than these houses. What a bargain!

20 Mil on my server and it's not for the house but for the ground where you want to put your house on btw.

wonder what this will do:


* Purchasing land or housing using gil obtained from RMT (real money trading) or other illicit means is strictily prohibited. Any land or estate hall deemed to have been purchased through such means is subject to seizure.

Mrhappys' thoughts about housing prices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40CEbuUYy0o

[eschaton]

This is still a paid subscription game right? Players pay for fun. Elitists or not.

Don't push players towards rmt. Elitists amounts or not. Please. Let players have fun

Thank you.

[LordSideKicks]

They should have made all land same size with different class price. Or make it upgradable. Or only housing have different prices.

[Nanaya]

Those aren't White Knights, man. Those are just elitists.

True elitists don't have an unified opinion towards this. It's literally nothing more than a gil grind, there is no skill ceiling, there is no technique only a good player would be able to employ, it is simply a numbers game. It's no different from putting your nose to the grindstone and getting everything to 50, nothing elitist about it, it's just single-minded determination.