First article about the House pricing.

[Keyln]

The fact that most people are expressing annoyance is evidence that they find the prices too high, which in a game that requires a monthly fee, is equivalent to the fact that the prices are too high. People are not forced to play and pay, and will do so only as long as they are satisfied.

For someone that accuses others not to be familiar with concepts, you really seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of "customer satisfaction," which is at the very base of the survival of a pay to play MMORPG.

Here's the problem. You're using really bad argumentation to support your assertion. Resorting to logical fallacies and anecdotal evidence is not the way to go.

Call me a "White Knight", "White Mage" "White Lighter" or a "White somethingoranother", I don't care. Coming up with an assertion and using bad argumentation to support it is something that should be called out.

Here's where I stand. We simply do not have enough information here. Yoshida knows how much gil is on each server, and he even knows how much each player has. He knows that players that played since 1.0 still have lots and lots of gil. He isn't blind to this at all. Housing as it stands right now was meant to be bought by FC's, meaning that people working together to gather enough gil to buy something that they all can enjoy.

Now, add in additional gil fountains that will be new in 2.1, and falling prices over time, and eventually, all FCs will be able to afford a house or plot of land (if they weren't limited in number). From what I figure, worst case scenario is that prices really ARE too high, and that would translate in plots not being bought up. This would cause Yoshida to drop the prices on the houses as necessary.

Yoshida is not doing this blind, and I think he knows what he's doing here.