Quote Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard View Post
What I take from this statement is that housing wasn't ready for this update so you artificially priced it out of all but the richest players' grasp. If this is the case I feel I would have had more respect for you were you to hold up your hands and admit you needed more time to deliver a product everyone could enjoy. Right now you have a huge part of the playerbase who feels let down, deceived, or downright lied to.

Legacy players are understandably feeling heartily disappointed. Try to remember, the Legacy servers represent people who stuck with you through all the highs and lows of the initial release through to the greatly improved product we have now. I feel you have seriously failed to reward their faith in you.
This this this this this. This is what I was talking about last night. I'd have much more respected Yoshida and the team if they were honest with us that it wasn't ready due to server issues, than toy us along like this. I'd much rather see the highly promoted feature be stable and secure and ready for the strain of a server fully participating in it than this little dance of carrot on a stick for 3 months. Anyone with the funds available to even afford these outrageous prices is pretty much paying gil right now to beta test for SE. If they'd been honest and said "Hey, this isn't quite ready yet, but we'd like some players to help us test this for a few months", I think players would have been a lot more understanding.

As for the whole bit about fears of server multimillionaires buying out the entire zone. What the heck? Are you seriously saying that your vastly creative team couldn't come up with a better means to prevent housing abuse? Just a few ideas off the top of my head:
- 1 FC land ownership per FC initially. Maybe later FC ranks in future updates allow for more house purchases, or just allow more later in general once you have that server stuff sorted out
- 1 FC land ownership per character. Wow, those multimillionaires now can't buy out the zone now, can they?
- 1 FC land ownership per account on a server. They thought they could get around this by passing off some gil to a new character through a third party? NOPE!
If anyone tries to throw their money around to abuse the zone beyond these checks, you can track gil transactions, no? If it comes up, investigate and handle accordingly.

With the current costs and lack of using logical lockouts like listed above, its so very blatant that you really didn't want people actually using the housing feature right now, but you were afraid to delay it again. Stop insulting us with weak excuses and you'd be surprised at how much respect your customers are ready to give you.