New Live Letter: YoshiP Comments on Housing Prices

[Seig345]

"YoshiP is saying it was set this way so players don’t buy out all the lands right away and end up in situation where none is available. RMT estimated gil has been removed from their amount, they checked how much gil the FC’s have and got the estimates."

What happened to new instances opening up? This implies the number of housing slots are limited since he's worried about players buying up all the land. So.. by the time us smaller FC's can even afford to buy a house we can look forward to seeing them all sold out? So.. the reason the prices are so high is because he decided to go back on what he said he's going to implement? (New instances opening up.)?

New instances would mean new hardware to make room. I'd say if it turned out that there was much larger demand for FC housing than what they currently have hardware for, they would likely go to the trouble of accomodating that, possibly still on a by-server basis.

[Reslin]

New instances would mean new hardware to make room. I'd say if it turned out that there was much larger demand for FC housing than what they currently have hardware for, they would likely go to the trouble of accomodating that, possibly still on a by-server basis.

Except that's just it. He DID say they were going to do that. He claimed when the houses were bought up new instances would form. His very response states that if the houses sold out there'd be none left to buy. So the previous statement was a lie. As for the hardware bit? LOTRO is much much older than FF14 and has this very same feature.

[Seig345]

Except that's just it. He DID say they were going to do that. He claimed when the houses were bought up new instances would form. His very response states that if the houses sold out there'd be none left to buy. So the previous statement was a lie. As for the hardware bit? LOTRO is much much older than FF14 and has this very same feature.

Seeing as the number of instances will ALWAYS be finite until a hardware change is made, his statement does not preclude the possibility I already mentioned. Perhaps I used the wrong word, by 'new' hardware, I simply meant 'additional' hardware, not 'more advanced'.

[kukurumei]

New instances would mean new hardware to make room. I'd say if it turned out that there was much larger demand for FC housing than what they currently have hardware for, they would likely go to the trouble of accomodating that, possibly still on a by-server basis.

That's what our monthly fees are for. Besides it's not an issue. All you do is do math (I know SE was never good at math, or ARR for that matter). This is what statistics is for.

Another way to do it is, staggered release. Release only one instance, sell it out, use that data before making another instance, etc.

[Seig345]

That's what our monthly fees are for. Besides it's not an issue. All you do is do math (I know SE was never good at math, or ARR for that matter). This is what statistics is for.

Another way to do it is, staggered release. Release only one instance, sell it out, use that data before making another instance, etc.

That's what I was saying. Maybe not in so many words, but I'm fairly sure "if the demand turns out to be greater than what their hardware can accomodate, they could add additional hardware to accomodate the additional demand" is what a staggered release process would mean. But adding additional hardware isn't like flicking a switch, and there's no need to risk wasting money on extra hardware that winds up not getting used simply because people are crying that they might not get something right now. So the fact that lots can be sold out, as opposed to infinitely available (we already have to wait in line for dungeons, which have time limits for this reason, do you really want time limits and queues to get into your own FC housing?), does not mean Yoshi-P has somehow gone back on opening new instances when necessary.