First article about the House pricing.

[Abriael]

Wrong. Anecdotal obscures the truth, and often leads to erroneous conclusions.

I'm afraid there's no erroneous conclusion here. People are annoyed. It's visible in the forums, in the game, on twitter, within the Japanese community, in the Japanese blogosphere and anywhere Final Fantasy XIV is discussed.

The only ones here trying to obscure the truth is you, and those that try (and fail) to defend the housing prices.

You really have no idea what fallacy of the numbers is, do you?

It's also known as Argumentum ad Populum

Which only works if the people are actually in favor of that argument.

Mind you, we're talking about a product for which people pay a monthly fee, so satisfying the "Populus" should be Yoshida's primary goal.