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

[Rahspdoy]

Copied over a post i made about this on my own... figured it summed up how i felt about it and decided to add my thoughts to this thread as well


So when i heard about the Housing being added into FFXIV with 2.1, I got excited.

Now im frustrated.

After looking into the Housing district's a bit, and looking a the prices for each plot, I realized that they did NOT add in 'player' housing. What they added in, is GUILD housing. (or Free Company Housing, whichever term you wish to use).

And here's why.



Yup, you see right. Almost 8 'million' gil. for a 'small' plot within the housing area. 8 'MILLION'. And after waiting for it to 'devalue' to see how much that ridiculous price drops.



Yup... it only dropped 11,200 gil.

At that current rate, it will take 118 'Devaluations' for it to reach 0 for the price. Or 30 DAYS, for those who don't want to do the math (Unless the amount it devalues by goes up with each cycle)

Which means that no 'average' player will even be able to think of getting a house of their own, till near the end of June. And even then, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if every single lot is taken up by then.

Either by:
1) The Major Free Company's.
2) People who feel 'pushed' towards relying on RMT's in order to get the Gil needed to get a house for their character.

Anyone else feel a bit mislead about the 'housing' that was being added in? Expecting/Hoping to see 'player' housing, only to realize what has actually been added is Guild/Free Company Housing?