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

[Billzey]

I really don't understand all the QQ regarding housing, specifically why people even care. I keep reading posts about how people were really really really looking forward to housing as if it was the only thing they were interested in. Are you kidding me? Having a house serves no purpose whatsoever. It's a completely vain nicety that has no impact on how I play FFXIV. What do people even expect to do in these houses...? Walk around and maybe do some /sitting and /dozing on the beds? Wow, that sounds like fun. Or maybe I can craft inside the house because the environment in which I craft is so important!

If the only thing you were looking forward to in 2.1 was housing, then I highly suggest you play a different game--something like Second Life.

[Fusionx]

Having a house serves no purpose whatsoever. It's a completely vain nicety that has no impact on how I play FFXIV. What do people even expect to do in these houses...? Walk around and maybe do some /sitting and /dozing on the beds? Wow, that sounds like fun. Or maybe I can craft inside the house because the environment in which I craft is so important!

If it serves no purpose, then why does it cost so much?

Welcome to the issue~

[Purrfectstorm]

If it serves no purpose, then why does it cost so much?

Welcome to the issue~

Awesome response! Well said!

[Mihael_Longclaw]

Awesome response! Well said!

Going by that logic, what purpose does playing a video game at all serve?

We do things for fun, or at least I do.

[Gemma]

I really don't understand all....

yea you obviously don't understand... >_>
And who are YOU to tell someone what they should have fun with in a game they PAY for?
How does the world look up on your high horse there buddy? ^_^b

[joshsecret]

I really don't understand all the QQ regarding housing, specifically why people even care.

please take this in the best way... but just because YOU dont see the importance in housing does not make the content trivial to others. housing is to me as coil is to others!

[WhiteDragon]

please take this in the best way... but just because YOU dont see the importance in housing does not make the content trivial to others. housing is to me as coil is to others!

If it's that important then you should be happy to farm and work for your important goal.

[Vantwan]

If it's that important then you should be happy to farm and work for your important goal.

The funny thing is that there are a lot of smaller FC's out there who have been saving gil for housing since the game launched but I doubt they expected something like 30+ million gil for medium sized land, which doesn't even include the cost of the actual house.

[WhiteDragon]

The funny thing is that there are a lot of smaller FC's out there who have been saving gil for housing since the game launched but I doubt they expected something like 30+ million gil for medium sized land, which doesn't even include the cost of the actual house.

I know individuals who make over a mil a day messing with the markets. Player size has nothing to do with anything if an FC will get anything (Mostly anyway). It comes down to how hard they will be willing to work to something. This gives a lot of people a reason to play over a long time, a long term goal.


If your FC has twenty people in it and they all passionately want a house, surely they can do the dailies or work the market or craft or do whatever they need to to earn their house rather then sit around and complain that they don't have one..?

[joshsecret]

If it's that important then you should be happy to farm and work for your important goal.

you make me count to 10... but your trollish comment aside, i have been farming and working and saving and selling and choco-porting and walking and banking my gil since i was able to in Beta 4. i have wanted a house since i knew it was a possibility. i went as far as to make my own solo FC in hopes that it might be obtainable. it was a shot in the dark and no, you wont see me crying for the prices to drop for people like me. but bottom line is the reasoning behind the cost is aggravating. especially for those that are in a decent sized group, who have been saving and finds housing to be important. i am holding on to hopes that this will not be the approach for personal housing because that is MY end-game.