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

[KirakunAUS]

If small house is 40million...
Personal will not that be far off from it.

What makes you think that personal housing will not be as expensive as a small house?

[Krystalynn]

Big thing here is the people on nonlegacy servers saying pricing is fair when they don't have to deal with the prices we're seeing on Balmung, Excalibur and others. Some perspective please, people, come on.

I think people are panicking a bit here.
This isn't personal housing. This is FC housing. The point of FC housing is that everyone comes together to buy it, not just the one person.
Moreover, it isn't as if people are starting at 0 gil. People already have some gil saved up that they can use to contribute to FC housing.
Even small FC's will have a chance, sure it may take longer but that's the price you pay for being a smaller FC.

If 4-8 million is what my RP FC is expected to amass, that'd be one thing, but the cheapest plot on Balmung (popular RP server since 1.0) is 20 million. You're asking every 2.0+ created FC on this server to amass more than five times the amount of gil you do on yours. You are not thinking fairly about this problem at all. Most of you aren't.

[KirakunAUS]

Agreed...
Where there's no more than 8 men content, do you think I should force my members to dump everything into the FC?

[AzumaKun]

Agreed...
Where there's no more than 8 men content, do you think I should force my members to dump everything into the FC?

If your FC members don't want an FC house, why are you even here complaining? Go away.

[Eekiki]

If small house is 40million...
Personal will not that be far off from it.

What makes you think that personal housing will not be as expensive as a small house?

Because it's meant to be affordable by a single person. Based on Yoshi's "20k per day for 3 or 4 months" statement, I'd guess personal houses will run around 2.5 million.

But that's going based on what we're seeing today. Since the prices of FC housing are sure to fall in the weeks ahead (and I'm not talking about the .14% drop every six hours), there's a good chance they'll be able to put up plots for personal housing for less than that once they've got everything ready.

It's a common trend and, "Maybe we should just anticipate the worst, bite the bullet, and enhance the setup to cover ourselves" seems to never be a solution they actually consider. It's always, "Will we be able to do that without spending anything?" :-/

If they buy rack space and and hardware only to later find out they don't need it, they don't get that money back. Rack space isn't cheap, and no one is going to buy used servers for anywhere near what SE paid for them.

[Dark-Saviour]

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.

Thusfar, 'the servers may not be able to handle it' has come up with respect to:
1) Continued log-in issues after the initial 'upgrade' after launch.
2)The display system that makes Odin/Behemoth such a nightmare (though I'll grant them this one, as it is also partially designed to alleviate stress on users' CPUs and culling issues tend to plague a lot of games).
3) The .3 second delay. It's being reduced in some places, but to universally fix it would apparently kill their set-up.
4) Player housing not coming at the onset.
5) Player housing potentially not coming at all and FC-rooms being forced in instead.
6) FC housing in general, so it seems...

It's a common trend and, "Maybe we should just anticipate the worst, bite the bullet, and enhance the setup to cover ourselves" seems to never be a solution they actually consider. It's always, "Will we be able to do that without spending anything?" :-/

[Yolteotl]

Because it's meant to be affordable by a single person. Based on Yoshi's "20k per day for 3 or 4 months" statement, I'd guess personal houses will run around 2.5 million.

But that's going based on what we're seeing today. Since the prices of FC housing are sure to fall in the weeks ahead (and I'm not talking about the .14% drop every six hours), there's a good chance they'll be able to put up plots for personal housing for less than that once they've got everything ready.

Really? Because I'm pretty sure they never confirmed personal housing in the 1st place. They are still debating whether ppl get personal homes or just rooms inside the FC Housing

[SanjiroLionheart]

NOONE ever has a House constructed and then immediately pays the total cost up front.

Bill Gates probably did ._. and celebrities etc.....to be fair the Lala *did* say the richest people, I'm sure IRL there are some pretty wealthy folks that can go in and pay for a 30M mansion in cash lmao. I know I'm nowhere near rich, livin in small town Kansas....wealthier folks live in Beverly Hills etc. Read into a comment before you totally blast them for making a fairly accurate, IMO, comparison.

[Purrfectstorm]

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

Welcome to the issue~

Awesome response! Well said!

[odintius]

Please add another zero not enough rage!