New Live Letter: YoshiP Comments on Housing Prices

[Eloc]

Housing should be available for all FC's from small 10 man groups to large 100 person. You do realize you "loose" your personal gil when your FC buys a lot? getting 100 people do donate 2 million gil will be impossible, those 100 people would rather spend that on their personal housing, something they own. I dont think even 30 out of those 100 people will drop 100% of their personal gil to get a company house... unless its a freaking castle with lots of perks.

This is an EPIC FAIL

The FC i am in has maybe 15 active people, most of them are broke with under 50k on them. We saved and donated and ran FC events to farm up gil so we could buy a medium plot. we managed to get our 15 active\25 people to donate 2mil. Thats just 1\10th of what we need for the cheapest house? are you ffffff kidding me? ill save for personal housing, but they will probably price that the same ffs.

Lets all go play Wildstar!!!

[ChiefCurrahee]

Housing should be available for all FC's from small 10 man groups to large 100 person. You do realize you "loose" your personal gil when your FC buys a lot? getting 100 people do donate 2 million gil will be impossible, those 100 people would rather spend that on their personal housing, something they own. I dont think even 30 out of those 100 people will drop 100% of their personal gil to get a company house... unless its a freaking castle with lots of perks.

This is an EPIC FAIL


The FC i am in has maybe 15 active people, most of them are broke with under 50k on them. We saved and donated and ran FC events to farm up gil so we could buy a medium plot. we managed to get our 15 active\25 people to donate 2mil. Thats just 1\10th of what we need for the cheapest house? are you ffffff kidding me? ill save for personal housing, but they will probably price that the same ffs.

Lets all go play Wildstar!!!

To manage my money, when ever I have over 10k gil on my character, I split the exceeding amount between my retainers. One retainer is for my FC donations the other is for me. Between them I have ~620k gil. 500k of the gil will be donated to my FC. I will keep 120k for me. How many of your members are ready and willing to put forward the majority of their gil to see your FC succeed while retaining a lesser amount?

It sucks you're on a legacy server and prices are crazy high. I have a legacy character as well I brought over 800k from 1.0. However, I decided to roll on a new sever for two reasons: 1) I wanted to experience the new game from the beginning. 2) I didn't want to compete in a F'd up economy brought over from 1.0.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

I'm actually fine with this. Given the fact that my FC is a little under half of what we need and you can receive up to 20,000 gil with a role bonus a day...between just ten of us we can afford a plot of land within 17 days. and we're a small FC. I can generate roughly 70-120k a day through crafting ontop of that and so can other FC members. Just have to get organized.

what is this role bonus? can someone please tell me.

[jetsette1]

what is this role bonus? can someone please tell me.

Queuing for a dungeon in the dungeon roulette as a 'role' (class) that is in desperate need. Basically queuing as a tank, or in some cases a healer. I -think- though it is unclear, that this might apply to queuing as a DPS that not many people play as...but like I said, that's unclear. It says 'role bonus' not 'class bonus' so I'm guessing 'role' is going to be tank/healer/DPS so the 'role' is going to be the one that's needed. i.e. mostly tanks and sometimes healers.

[Vespar]

The whole role bonus thing is going to end up being a very unfair and biased bonus for DPS. I doubt we'll ever see it really.

[Dragonhaven]

This is also assuming that moving such a large amount of gil to one chr to buy FC housing doesn't get you banned as they seem more than happy to ban legit players who are moving around large amounts of gil d(^.^)b good job guys. Keep hurting your player base ^^

[Jonjon]

When EQ2 released guild housing there were three tiers. Small, medium and large.

I forget what the prices for the other two tiers were, but the largest was 1000 platinum. I could make that money in a month by myself. Housing should never be exclusive, period. Housing is not a status item. It is meant to be an enjoyable side game. Personal housing in EQ2 is much the same. The largest personal house cost 7 Platinum with 5g/week upkeep, or you could choose the one that you upkeep with status and reduce the status cost to nothing. Plus there are ways to own a Mansion for free through in game events.
I took the liberty of logging into EQ2 to give this thread and the forums a look at housing that doesn't cost your soul.











EDIT: My framerate has been terrible in EQ2 since I upgraded my computer for some reason. So pay no mind to that horrible green 20.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

Queuing for a dungeon in the dungeon roulette as a 'role' (class) that is in desperate need. Basically queuing as a tank, or in some cases a healer. I -think- though it is unclear, that this might apply to queuing as a DPS that not many people play as...but like I said, that's unclear. It says 'role bonus' not 'class bonus' so I'm guessing 'role' is going to be tank/healer/DPS so the 'role' is going to be the one that's needed. i.e. mostly tanks and sometimes healers.

i kind of figured that might be what he was talking about. but it seemed odd to factor something that might not viable into your earnings plan.

then i thought maybe he means the bonus you get for playing DF roulette for each type of content. but the patch notes doesn't specify this a 'role bonus'.


either way, thank you very much.

[Forestwanderer]

Here is what I am wondering. The plan for housing seems to be so horrid that that is what everyone is focused on. It also seems like something they could easily fix in a week or 2. Is this camouflage for something the players will probably not like and slowly accept if we are not paying attention to get worked up over it?

Just seems almost engineered to make the player base upset. That raises the question in my mind why do something they know will upset us?

[delphinius81]

The game has been out for almost 4 months, let's introduce new content that will require players to wait another 3+ months before they can use. I don't understand this logic. If players can't use the new content right away, why add it into the content update at all? In other MMOs, housing is something intended for more more casual players, with some trophy type rewards to show off raid/hard-mode type completions. This is the first MMO I have encountered where players are expected to farm instances repeatedly for several months to raise enough money to even buy a plot of land, let alone all the items to furnish the house. I for one will non be partaking in housing it seems.