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

[LoLo]

Look at it like this then: lets say you make 400k from completely the story.

Small plot on new server: 4 mil

Small plot on legacy: 40 mil

On a new server it would take 10 people completing their story quests to buy a small lot.

On a legacy server it would take 100 people completing their story quests to buy a small plot.


So if legacy players aren't responsible for that MASSIVE disparity in prices, then what is? Why does it take 10 times as many new players on a legacy server to buy the same size plot?

Why would someone finish the story and just sit on 400k without trying to make money? I don't really understand this mindset. Every Final Fantasy before (even console FF games) this one required people to farm monsters, sell items, or craft to make gil to buy additional items that aren't given to your for free via a quest or storyline mission. So why is it now that people expect to just do quests and never work on money gathering?

[AmnesiaHaze]

400 k for completing the story is way off , im soon to hit 50 on all battle classes and all i got is 40K on my character , teleporting and repairs cover most of my income

[KV-1]

Why would someone finish the story and just sit on 400k without trying to make money? I don't really understand this mindset. Every Final Fantasy before (even console FF games) this one required people to farm monsters, sell items, or craft to make gil to buy additional items that aren't given to your for free via a quest or storyline mission. So why is it now that people expect to just do quest and never work on money gathering?

That doesn't answer my question as to why there is such a huge disparity in pricing.

400 k for completing the story is way off , im soon to hit 50 on all battle classes and all i got is 40K on my character , teleporting and repairs cover most of my income

My first play through I got about 300k, and I did buy a few nice things and this was also before the repair cost nerf, so 400k is probably about right.

[LoLo]

That doesn't answer my question as to why there is such a huge disparity in pricing.



My first play though I got about 300k, and I did buy a few nice things and this was also before the repair cost nerf, so 400k is probably about right.

Why would a new player play on a legacy server and not expect items to be prices higher on a legacy server?

[SchalaZeal]

Okat so 15 mins for 5k gil. Now you need to make about 100k a day to stay on track for your house in a few months. So now you have 20k and hour times 5 hours. There you go, set aside your first 5 hours of play EVERY day for you and everyone in your FC because they will gladly give you 5 hours of grinding each day and hand the gil straight over to you each day so that in a few months you can all enjoy a small house. Incidentally, have you seen what the small house looks like, so worth the second full time job for you and every member of your FC...so worth it.

I make 200k average a day, and it takes me about an hour every day, give or take. If I could grind for it, I could add 50k/hour depending on what I did for it. Talk about a 2nd job, I can contribute worth 10 member's FC contribution, on my own.

[Koss_Nottoris]

We've had people putting aside gil on the side for a month already thinking we were 50-75% towards a house only to find out we're barely a drop in the bucket. Definitely feel punished that we joined a legacy server even though we're all new players.

This this and more of this. I joined Balmung because I had several friends who played before the overhaul. We've been having loads of fun and putting money aside thinking "Alright! Housing!" and then they post this and everyone is immediately depressed. One of them has already cancelled her account over this because she was excited and wanting to decorate and all that and now we'll never be able to afford anything worth buying so she's moving on to other games. At least they are -willing- to lower the pricing they just need to lower it even more.

[HunkyJimpjorps]

That doesn't answer my question as to why there is such a huge disparity in pricing.

Because our servers have much more money floating around. This is not a difficult thing to understand. The presence of rich players drove up the amount of gil in circulation, making it easier to get gil by converting materia or crafting two-star armor or selling Titan or what have you.

[Sunarie]

My first play through I got about 300k, and I did buy a few nice things and this was also before the repair cost nerf, so 400k is probably about right.

I had about 240k after completing the story. This was with taking my gear upgrades, doing all dungeons and buying no gear off the AH. As I understand it, you can make considerably more if you take the Tin/Bronze/Silver pieces instead of the gear rewards, however I wouldn't really expect all players to do this, nor do I think they did. 200k-250k is usually the quoted price for a 1-50 story person as I have also seen people who only made it with a little over 100k.

[Sayura_]

oh and no gil back when you actually upgrade, so you lose all your initial investment. What's the incentive to buy the small plot of land instead of saving the however many million gil and putting it towards a bigger house?

Agree. The size of the small house is actually insulting for the price. 8million gil for a house that fits maybe 5 people and can never be upgraded.

Let the rich people pay gil for the premium locations and let everyone start with a plot of land building it together as a FC from the ground up using DOH/DOL.

[KV-1]

Why would a new player play on a legacy server and not expect items to be prices higher on a legacy server?

I'm not talking about items, I'm talking about housing. No one ever said housing was going to be more expensive on legacy servers, I thought it would be a set price for a plot of land on all servers. As did most people.