New Live Letter: YoshiP Comments on Housing Prices

[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.

[Medsy]

So I take it that 20k a day everyone will be earning is the same for each server? So people who have to save 4 mil for a house earn 20k a day, and people who have to save 40 mil will also earn 20k a day. Cool.

[BillyBones]

What an ego we have...

How many are complaining about the price for small first class plots?

It's the price for large plots that is insane.

Oh really? I must have missed that part. Cause all I see here are people who refuse to settle for anything less than the best and biggest houses and would rather whine and wait months instead of getting a smaller one.

[Hanabira]

Oh really? I must have missed that part. Cause all I see here are people who refuse to settle for anything less than the best and biggest houses and would rather whine and wait months instead of getting a smaller one.

Even for a smaller one.. lets say you get 40 people to give up 1mil for land, a house we have no idea how large it will be, and fully controlled by only the guild leader (and you can be kicked out at any time).. is this place big enough for those 40 people? when in a smaller server it would only take 4 people.

[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.

[Lyrinn]

and fully controlled by only the guild leader (and you can be kicked out at any time)

Not that the rest of what you said is wrong, but why exactly are you in a FC you can't trust and looking forward to/donating gil then?

[kukurumei]

Oh really? I must have missed that part. Cause all I see here are people who refuse to settle for anything less than the best and biggest houses and would rather whine and wait months instead of getting a smaller one.

You must also hate the minimum wage argument as well.

Since you can't afford mcdonalds do you want to eat shit because it's cheaper? Prices have to match their respective attractiveness.

The economy won't work if people don't buy. Who's going to buy your furniture, who's going to buy your mats, your philos, your materias.

Money needs to move, the housing prices are so big and bad, even the smallest houses would cause a gill freeze, it would crash the market, making expensive houses even more expensive.

Someone has to buy a house first, and for that to happen, it has to be attractive enough for a competitive rate.

We need rapid inflation right now to match the housing prices. When we were in a long period of deflation. Neither is good ficsal policy, thus their prices are s.t.u.p.i.d.

[Shadex]

Square Dev: *Reading 'Running MMOs for Dummies'* "Sir it says right here in Chapter 2 - Alienating your Player Base..."
Yoshi: "Yeah, I never got past Chapter 1..."

Well this will certainly put the steam back into the Gilfarmer market. Which is so odd... recently only one gilfarming site seems to have survived the supposed RMT holocaust... they stand to make a heck of a lot of money pretty soon. Must have a guardian angel.

[Beeraga]

Not that the rest of what you said is wrong, but why exactly are you in a FC you can't trust and looking forward to/donating gil then?

If you put your trust in 500 people in a game like this, I've got a timeshare in Eorzea to sell you.

But seriously, in my 10 years of playing XI, I noticed an awful lot of turnover and drama in end game LSs, and if you are in a 500 person FC that might actually be able to afford these ridiculous prices, you can start making up 100 million gil worth of popcorn and enjoy the show.