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

[timwind]

the wealthiest players could easily buy up all available plots of land

How? Each FC can only have one land.
Why? The lane and house cannot be resold. It will be stupid to buy all available lands even if I can.

I hope this is NOT the way SE tried to keep the subscription as I keep hearing 90 days. I subscribe to the game because the rich contents not because SE's marketing tactics.

[CrisGer]

An easy answer for the worry is to allow each FC to purchase at the most three plots. Periood. No more ever. that removes the worry..and then lower the price by 50 percent. That way we can enjoy the fun and not have to focus on making money instead of enjoying the story.

the areas esp Gridania Lavender Fields are beautiful btw and very very very very nice. As a professional artist and long time researcher and student of MMO design, this is the most beautiful housing area I have ever seen or even imagined. Superb work! thank you so much.

[JillyBean]

Why not just limit the # of plots that could be purchased by a FC? It could even just be raised later if that's an issue..

[Nephandi]

I have to agree, I am in a Small FC too, and we would't be able to effort a House at any point soon. We already agreed not to go for it and consider it a non-excistent feature ;-)

[Omedon]

I have to agree, I am in a Small FC too, and we would't be able to effort a House at any point soon. We already agreed not to go for it and consider it a non-excistent feature ;-)

Honestly, it's not "a feature" to me at all until I have my own house. If personal housing will be "affordable," then clearly "overdoing" the saving of gil with the new gil fountains apparently in the game now will just lead me to a bigger house, and spending cash to boot...

As opposed to a communal house, and being broke after handing over most of my money. I love my FC, but they're understanding of the reality here, and the core unit that plays and funds a game is the player, not the FC/guild.

[OldGeezer]

People are impatient because they were mislead (and even then, I would hardly call expecting to be able to get a bare minimum house after you've saved for three months or more impatient). I'm not sure if maybe you missed the part where people literally wouldn't have been able to save up because assuming Yoshi had come out and said "Housing will be 4 million minimum, with most servers needing 8 million and up"....

That's right. You saw the house price and you brought that much, but low-and-behold other people are bringing more to the table. Weclome to a sellers market. Yoshi made an estimate. You saved only that much and now you're finding out that it isn't enough. Whose fault is it that you aren't bringing enough to the table? It's not Square Enix. You can curse your rival FC's for makng more money, but just because you want a house doesn't mean you get one just because you have a FC.

[Lingarn]

Why not just limit the # of plots that could be purchased by a FC? It could even just be raised later if that's an issue..

They already did that. Each FC can only buy 1, and it cannot be sold or traded -- so the money is gone once the land is bought, meaning they can't buy it and sell it for profit.

The only way the wealthy could buy up all of the properties, leaving none for anyone else, is if there are far too few properties available because there are far too few servers being used for housing. Rather than admit that they failed, again, to use the numbers of players that they know exist to buy the correct amount of servers, they priced housing so that by their own estimate at least 20% of FCs won't be able to afford a house, even in 3 months.

That is why your attempt to apply logic to the explanation fails -- the explanation of wealthy players buying everything is an excuse.

[AmnesiaHaze]

That's right. You saw the house price and you brought that much, but low-and-behold other people are bringing more to the table. Weclome to a sellers market. Yoshi made an estimate. You saved only that much and now you're finding out that it isn't enough. Whose fault is it that you aren't bringing enough to the table? It's not Square Enix. You can curse your rival FC's for makng more money, but just because you want a house doesn't mean you get one just because you have a FC.

but at the end were all paying the same subscription costs , so we should have more equal chances on getting a house , its not about not having saved enough before patch and wanting it immediately , but not being able to save enough even in future at all

[SirGazuntai]

What I feel the problem is that people have been expecting housing since the beginning and because of this, they started farming gil to save up for it. When that happened, there was a huge amount of gil in the game that would otherwise not be there without saving for housing. Then, by the time housing came, they calculated the prices based on money that was saved over 4 months for the sole purpose of buying a house.

Had we not been expecting housing, we wouldn't have anywhere near that much gil (besides the RMT) because we would have no reason to. THAT is where the issues are coming from, in my opinion.

[Jin718]

I think people will just save money for their own individual housing. FC housing is stupidly expensive