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

[Cubester]

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.

Then why don't you actually use some of the subscription fee we pay you to buy some more servers? That sounds like a proper solution to the shortage of available land.

We also examined all of the free companies across all Worlds, how many members there were, and how much gil each member possessed.

That's funny. You must've forgotten to look at those FCs which barely have a million to their name, let alone 40.

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.

What if I told you a lot of people were looking forward to 2.1 because it included housing? And that lot of people couldn't wait to start using the FC house, to use it for RP purposes, or to simply relax a bit with their FC?

Now you release 2.1 and tell us to basically grind/farm some more, which we've been doing for what, 3 months straight now? People say housing shouldn't be accessible from day one, well, I disagree. We've waited months for this, and now we're told to wait 3 more months (in the best case scenario) for something that should be considered casual, accessible content.

For new users playing on Legacy servers, there were questions about how they would be able to purchase land as it's much more expensive, so moving forward we will be making adjustments to the lower limits. The prices listed in the patch notes are the high prices, and there have been comments that no one will buy them, but again, we will look at conditions and look into reducing the lower limits. We'll be keeping a close on eye on how everyone is making gil and on the economic conditions for each World.

No, you should make adjustments to the base price for housing, not the lower limits. Besides, discriminating between different servers? Not cool. Pricing should be the same everywhere, meaning that the starting prices should be at the level of the cheapest servers everywhere. (Even though they're still not cheap)

Also, economic conditions? What economic conditions? The economy of your game is dead.

We understand that the initial prices for housing are extremely high

I somehow think you don't understand. If you did actually understand, you'd do something about your ridiculous pricing scheme!

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.

The housing is part of the content in the patch we're supposed to be enjoying. In fact, it's the only thing I, and others, were looking forward to. I don't give a damn about some 24 man raid, or extreme Primals.
So yeah, thanks for adding more grind to the already existing grindfest. I'll be sure to enjoy it.