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

[Efrye]

fc's can buy more than one house?

Probably not. And - more importantly - they most likely also won't be able to sell it.

[KHShadowrunner]

Probably not. And - more importantly - they most likely also won't be able to sell it.

Pretty sure they stated that yes, Land Deeds are a first-come/first-serve basis. And yes, they are able to trade and sell the deed, so that guild members do not lose everything they own when a master can no longer access the game.

[leto_atreides]

I agree with the OP. Slice that Zero!

Many of us here simply because you have fulfilled the promise of an MMO with player housing, something that has not been done right in a decade!

We want our rich fantasy MMO world AND a place within it to call home, a place to decorate with crafted items and collected treasures, to show off to our friends, and to meet and coordinate with our small group.

We are new to this world, we joined a legacy server, and now find out that all of our savings are = to 1/20 of the land price, and that even after 3 MORE months, we will still not be able to afford it. So we have to leave our server now to even hope to afford a house?

It is also a shame that honest players get the shaft based on some back-of-the-envelope math that includes rotten thieving RMT sellers/buyers. Why not take a sample of honest players are re-run your math? Why include the ENTIRE playerbase, which is so very likely to scoop up the baddies.

[Beimer]

Just a thought "SE"
Sense your aware of these accounts that have an excess of several million gill will you be investigating as to how those individuals obtained that amount sense this game was solely designed to excessively limit the ability to earn that gill?

It seems that you already failed preventing BOTS and RMT in this game so now that you singled them out what will be done with them?

[Kharina]

I started with all hopes for a fair fantasy game and the prospects were so promising Alas, another disappointment - it's all about money again and impsiible prices again. Have fun playing -I quit.

[tosmall]

Not to sound like im complaining but if ur worried about players buying up all the housing because they are rich would the obvious answer be to make it so fc's could only purchase 1 house and give the rest of us a chance tobuy a house instead of just these wealthy players you are trying not to let buy everything. It just seems idiotic too me that your solution to stopping the wealthy from buying them all is to make it so only the wealthy can buy them. In the meantime the rest of us have to wait to get content which we have been looking forward to for ages whilst the wealthy get to buy it all up before we can get achance. I mean come on how many months we going to have to wait for this new content we got promised just because we are not hoarding gil.

[Oats]

I think the scheme is fine. If a guild wants to be the first to buy a house and get the biggest one, thats a 120mil+ sink, thereby taking out a rich guild relatively fast. The other option would have been to put up houses cheap and have that same guild buy everything up and sell it for even higher prices. I just find it funny so many people are crapping their pants because they can't build their perfect house on day 1. I miss the days when people just played the game they were given instead of trying to change every stupid thing because it doesn't fit their personal agenda. What's even more laughable are people canceling their sub because of side content to the game not being attainable instantly. SE is doing fine IMO, and im glad i have something to strive for for a few months instead of being handed everything and then choosing to quit out of boredom.

[TrystWildkey]

I think the scheme is fine. SE is doing fine IMO, and im glad i have something to strive for for a few months instead of being handed everything and then choosing to quit out of boredom.

Of course it's fine in your opinion, you are on one of the cheaper servers. Please, please, at least TRY to see it from the point of view of someone on the more expensive and most expensive servers. This is NOT attainable unless they drastically change the prices in 3 months.

Reposting my earlier comparison to try to elicit some empathy:

What if you chose a Legacy server because your friends were there. But due to the Legacy server having a higher population that already had relics, they decided to slow down this progression for everyone. Now, instead of going through the same amount of effort to get a relic as other servers, because you're on Legacy and other players already have them, you have to win Chimera 10 times instead of 1. You also have to beat each hard primal 10 times as opposed to 1. You have to get the base weapon and meld it 10 times instead of just 1.

But, that's not fair!!! Oh, but you see, there are so many people that already have relics, even some players that have a relic for every job, so you see, we needed to limit the number of people that got relics. So sorry, these requirements will ease up in the next 3-6 months. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of the content!

[FuryBahamut]

Interesting fundamental stance regarding the house pricings. The fact that plots seem to be limited and that high pricings are the solution to guarantee availability doesnt comfort me.
In fact i feel deprived from a gamefeature like many other since i want to play the game in a casual manner without trying to focus more on earning gil.

Currently i own 200k gil and no epic equip but i still enjoy playing the game my own way. This leaves me with the question if my free company belongs to the 80 percent in three months which owns a plot or not.

But maybe i just dont see the grand developper picture in this. Hope it turns out as intended and meanwhile i will enjoy patch 2.1 content without housing.

[Wolfrune]

if the reasoning for such high prices are so that the rich players can't just buy all the plots. Why not do what ever other game that had a play system did, limit each player to buying only one house (once personal housing is released). If you can key an account so it can only hold 1 phoenix pinion, then surely this is easy enough to do. Market prices are already insane due to people charging way too much for simple items, if a player were able to buy several houses, to be able to resell them, the prices would be astronomical. A FC leader could have one personal house and one FC house. You could limit people buying FC houses as personal houses by limiting it to people with so many active accounts within the fc as well as the FC level. (50 active accounts vs 50 active characters, which would be 50 active people instead of 7 active people with 8 characters each.)