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

[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]

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.

I would be interested in a thread that compared auction house prices for various items across all servers. Gil on the server doesn't equate to gil in circulation.. and unless the prices of everything on the AH are 5x's that of other servers then that point is a bit moot. People already in the have-not group don't have the ability to make up the price difference.

[HunkyJimpjorps]

I would be interested in a thread that compared auction house prices for various items across all servers. Gil on the server doesn't equate to gil in circulation.. and unless the prices of everything on the AH are 5x's that of other servers then that point is a bit moot. People already in the have-not group don't have the ability to make up the price difference.

It's anecdotal, but I remember fairly early on, tome mats on Excalibur commanded about double or three times the price of those on a friend's non-legacy server. The difference has narrowed recently as the gear/level disparity narrows and supply increases, but I know a lot of new 2.0 players who were able to get in on the ground floor and build up a nice nest egg by selling tome mats to legacy players.

[Sunarie]

It's anecdotal, but I remember fairly early on, tome mats on Excalibur commanded about double or three times the price of those on a friend's non-legacy server. The difference has narrowed recently as the gear/level disparity narrows, but I know a lot of new 2.0 players who were able to get in on the ground floor and build up a nice nest egg by selling tome mats to legacy players.

I'm not going to argue that at all. What I will argue is that it was setup on current prices so that players would not be able to afford it for 3 months according to Yoshi himself. However, they used money people had stockpiled to make the calculation. If it's expected that it will take 3 months to save given current economy, then they need a way to earn that gil within three months that is equivalent to what other servers have available. If their auction house is showing the same prices, or near the same, to the non-legacy servers, and not 5x's higher -now-, then they don't have the ability to generate that gil and it really is unfair to anyone who is not in the very top tier of pricing or was not absolutely hording gil prior to the announcement. 10 players he listed as an example having over 100 mil (I think that was it), how many players on the server, what percent is that exactly of the playerbase? It's not a good example to base things off of.

[KV-1]

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.

Exactly. You could make a TON of money early on in 2.0, especially before the philo prices dropped.

What I'm saying is that now it's much harder, philo items have gone from 70k to 15k, crafted gear prices cut to 1/4 of previous prices, Titan runs go for like 300 instead of 700k. Unless you were on the money making that happened early 2.0, the housing prices are just insane.