First article about the House pricing.

[GilbertLapine]

the cost of FC housing isn't meant to be entirely shouldered by a single player.

Yeah... on Balmung, even after the 50% decrease in 90 days, to get a large plot (just the plot, not the house), you'd have to have between 125-156 members contributing a million gil each. To get a plot anytime sooner than that will cost much more.

I can't think of more than 5-10 FCs on my server that possibly have that many members, and assuming for the sake of argument that their members are all mains with regular gil streams (not alts for RP or whatever), I still can't imagine more than a fraction of those players having more than a few 100k on hand. Maybe 1m, at which point theyd be donating their entire savings.

Indeed, most FC's I've seen of that size (not all, but most) are the kind of roflguilds that tend towards "invite first, ask questions later," so I can't imagine they'd have enough loyal players willing to cough up a million or more to fund this kind of venture.

So.. who exactly is going to be buying these?

[Xenobius]

Yeah... on Balmung, even after the 50% decrease in 90 days, to get a large plot (just the plot, not the house), you'd have to have between 125-156 members contributing a million gil each.

I love how everyone firmly believes it will be *THEIR* guild getting that plot with "50% OFF" label.
Near the end of the 90-day price drop cycle everyone and their cat will be lining up to buy those plots cheap. Everyone. Meaning that plots in demand will be eyed by dozens of buyers, out of which one FC will get it and the others will have to wait at least ANOTHER 90 days until prices in the next copy of the housing zone (remember how Yoshi said new instances will only open up after old ones are full?) drop again. And again.
90 days? Unless you don't give a darn about where your FCs HQ is going to be, i.e. you're ready to settle for ANYTHING you were fast enough to purchase, you're looking at almost a year of waiting...