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

[Turlis]

@Smashington that would make sence to buy a FC house with FC credits. With the housing why dont the just build the house by the floor instead of taking up more space?Make 10 story apt complex for the FC its just a place to gather togeather. Did anyone at SE think the game space wouldnt allow the current number of FC to have a home? And for the 15 ppl with over 100mil you guys suck >.>

[Zierk]

I would personally be ok, or at least feel better about the pricing if you were able to upgrade your plot's class and size without completely losing out on your investment of the current plot. I don't like the feeling of being forced to settle.

[Welsper59]

Oh, look, another person on a server with lower pricing saying that the prices are fine.

Stop, just freaking stop.

We planned for housing, we were advertised housing, we saved since beta 4 for housing and because there are greedy people hoarding gil on the legacy servers, we don't get housing.

What if you had to grind out useless, boring crap for 3 months before you could even access CT or Coil? What if, players on other servers were able to get in to CT and Coil within a few weeks, or immediately; but you, because of the server you're on and other players behavior, were prevented from even beginning to access the content for 3, 6, 9 months or longer?

If you don't think that would be fine then go away and stop telling those of us that would have to spend 40 million on a tiny crappy plot of land that the prices are fine.

Putting in the amount of time to do anything in current MMORPGs (in the way they're intended) is a cakewalk. I've played older MMOs like FFXI for years after they launched. 3 months of grinding for ONE equip/item/good is nothing. Try a year... hell, several years for ONE top tier upgrade. Heck, unlike those games, this one with FC housing is a team effort. If your team doesn't want to meaningfully contribute towards that goal, then maybe FC housing isn't what you want.

I'm curious though, what about your server, which I'm assuming is on a high priced one, has prevented you from doing CT/Coil while others could? Housing deals with the active economy, so I'm trying to see how CT/Coil comes into play on that.

[timwind]

Greetings everyone,

First off, we'd like to thank you for all of your feedback thus far, and as usual, we're working to get it all collected and delivered to the dev. team. That said, last night our counterparts in Japan hosted a live patch notes reading for those that might not want to read the full wall of text. Yoshida joined in to offer commentary on specific aspects, and we'd like to share what was said regarding the pricing for the Free Company housing.

About 3 months? We are not fools. This is not the way to keep subscription.

[SpayedNeko]

In his post, Yoshi-p said the price of plots of land on legacy servers will be dropping to match those of world group 3. Will those prices become the new base price, meaning they'll then drop further as people dont buy them?

[TrystWildkey]

I'm curious though, what about your server, which I'm assuming is on a high priced one, has prevented you from doing CT/Coil while others could? Housing deals with the active economy, so I'm trying to see how CT/Coil comes into play on that.

Nothing about my server has prevented me from doing Coil. That is PRECISELY my point. Everyone has a chance to experience the content equally on all servers. It doesn't take 6 months on one but 2 weeks on another before Coil is available. Why should it be that way for housing? And if it was that way for Coil, would you be defending that decision as you're defending the prices for housing?

[Welsper59]

Nothing about my server has prevented me from doing Coil. That is PRECISELY my point. Everyone has a chance to experience the content equally on all servers. It doesn't take 6 months on one but 2 weeks on another before Coil is available. Why should it be that way for housing? And if it was that way for Coil, would you be defending that decision as you're defending the prices for housing?

Because housing isn't actual progression? It's a purchase. There's no active "going up from there" sort of attitude about it. It's an unnecessary luxury. It's the equivalent of owning Ferrari's or other such expensive vehicles that serve no real purpose for it being there besides being a luxury good.

Edit: Mind you, I'm not saying that high priced servers are priced right. Heck, Yoshi-P seems to somewhat agree and finds it acceptable for the price drop to match the lowest servers over time. If you can't find the patience to follow that, then problem wasn't anything to do with server price differences. It's impatience and using the plight of others as your shield for greed.

[Rose_Vilehart]

Nothing about my server has prevented me from doing Coil. That is PRECISELY my point. Everyone has a chance to experience the content equally on all servers. It doesn't take 6 months on one but 2 weeks on another before Coil is available. Why should it be that way for housing? And if it was that way for Coil, would you be defending that decision as you're defending the prices for housing?

oh look its you.......can you please just leave before you turn this into another discussion about how coild should be easier because you suck?
that being said: lower the damn prices!

[Xakery]

I don't get the big fuss. Sure I'm bummed I can't get a house, even though my free company has saved up a million, but now we have something hard to work towards and do things together.
Oh, I forgot people of this gaming generation hate to wait or work hard.:3

[Cole]

Nothing about my server has prevented me from doing Coil. That is PRECISELY my point. Everyone has a chance to experience the content equally on all servers. It doesn't take 6 months on one but 2 weeks on another before Coil is available. Why should it be that way for housing? And if it was that way for Coil, would you be defending that decision as you're defending the prices for housing?

I actually see this as a valid comparison. Even on really old games where equipment would take forever to get. (like everquest.) the spawn rate of rare's could be anywhere between 1 day and day 5 days. but it wasn't on server A this spawn took 1-5 days, and server B this spawn took 5-10 days.

point being, just because some people saved up/farmed gil on one server doesn't mean they should be treated more unfairly as a population.
it really does sound just more and more like a "too much gil on this server! must do something to get them to spend it!"