An Open Letter to Yoshida-san: Please Slice One Zero Off the Housing Prices

[Rex]

same things were said by some about FF14.


... for 1.0

...There's a big...BIG difference here...between 1.0 and just one aspect of an already successful game.

[Gemma]

Greetings everyone,

First off, we'd like to thank you for all of your feedback thus far, and as usual, we're working to get it all collected and delivered to the dev. team. That said, last night our counterparts in Japan hosted a live patch notes reading for those that might not want to read the full wall of text. Yoshida joined in to offer commentary on specific aspects, and we'd like to share what was said regarding the pricing for the Free Company housing.

Thanks for the reply, but I HIGHLY doubt the prices are going to come down so much to where us on Legacy servers don't have to settle for the smallest of the small... >_>

[Lingarn]

Greetings everyone,

First off, we'd like to thank you for all of your feedback thus far, and as usual, we're working to get it all collected and delivered to the dev. team. That said, last night our counterparts in Japan hosted a live patch notes reading for those that might not want to read the full wall of text. Yoshida joined in to offer commentary on specific aspects, and we'd like to share what was said regarding the pricing for the Free Company housing.

First off, I appreciate the time that Yoshida took to reiterate what he had said in the letter from the producer using slightly different words. That said, this response fails to address the mass of extremely unhappy people who are not only expressing themselves on this forum, but on gaming forums and in gaming blogs across the web. I am concerned that failing to address these issues in a substantive way will accelerate the decline of the game; it is a shame it will end so quickly.

[Alhanelem]

Greetings everyone,

First off, we'd like to thank you for all of your feedback thus far, and as usual, we're working to get it all collected and delivered to the dev. team. That said, last night our counterparts in Japan hosted a live patch notes reading for those that might not want to read the full wall of text. Yoshida joined in to offer commentary on specific aspects, and we'd like to share what was said regarding the pricing for the Free Company housing.

That's wonderful, but they should start lower, not simply go lower when people don't buy. Why should all but the most insane players have to wait 2-3 months (by then, the next patch will be out) before they can possibly enjoy this content.

And again, I would like to stress the current pricing scheme punishes both legacy players and non-legacy players that chose to join a legacy world (often not knowing what the difference is). The non legacy world prices should be the same prices everywhere.

One thing we wanted to avoid was situations where free companies wanted to build a house but couldn't because the land was sold out.

Replacing this with "situations where free companies wanted to build a house but couldn't because they couldn't afford it" doesn't really change anything.

[PallasLloyd]

Please look forward to it.

Typical...

[YuriRamona]

In patch 2.1 you'll be able to generate a bit more gil. Battle classes can earn an average of 15,000-18,000 gil per day, and with role bonuses in the Duty Roulette this can exceed 20,000 gil. Doing this several days a week you can save up quite a bit of gil, and if all FC members do the same, it will become a considerable amount. We estimate that by doing this for around three months you should be able to purchase land.

20,000 gil per day, limited by daily Roulette bonuses.

It's like all those endgame (Myth, Coil, CT) lockouts that people have been defending, except now they impact everyone!

FFXIV: A Lockout Reborn

2.1: Now featuring lockouts against poor casual players! Say hello to your version of tome/primal grinding hell, now in the form of dungeon/guildhest grinds!

[Arriverderci]

We understand that the initial prices for housing are extremely high, but this is a patch filled with a lot of content, so as you are having fun and enjoying everything the price will come down.

Some people looked forward to housing and mainly wanted to focus on that.
So...no.

[Fusionx]

One thing we wanted to avoid was situations where free companies wanted to build a house but couldn't because the land was sold out.

Make more land.

In patch 2.1 you'll be able to generate a bit more gil.

a bit- Good thing! I was worried I'd have to spend months upon months farming gil along with the rest of my FC!

Farm Duty Roulette

Of course these estimates don't take into account 1. the size of the free company 2. the play time of said members in the free company and 3. the world they're on which will determine how long they have to farm Duty Roulette for.
The price of land across worlds is different. The amount of Gil put out by content is not.

We estimate that by doing this for around three months you should be able to purchase land.

Housing is in 2.1, not 2.2.

We understand that the initial prices for housing are extremely high- do other stuff and wait for price to drop

You acknowledge the high prices, and tell us to simply wait? Why not set the prices down to the point in which you think we'll start actually buying the land?

[Esmian]

That's pretty rich. "This is a patch filled with content so go do other things instead of complaining about this. Kthx"

[Sovereign]

Cool. So now we have confirmation that Yoshi-P really is out of touch with the playerbase. =/