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

[ShirKirakira]

Eh, I'm wondering how FCs feel about these housing prices.

I went on my server to check out the new housing areas...and no one has bought any of the plots. Not a single one yet. Even the wealthiest players on the servers are balking at these prices.

This is so disappointing all around.

[MagicWand]

So FFXIV 1.0 was a huge failure because of laziness and fore thought and now it's happening again with FC housing. You people ever learn from your past mistakes?

These prices are so insanely high, you have to be HIGH and really stupid to pay 600+ million gil for what... rested EXP?!

[MagicWand]

When are they gonna open mortgages for housing? I need to borrow money from SE. I'll pay the down payment. IF I can't meet the monthly fee, just take away the land.

That would be funny if in real life you had to pay upfront for a business to own a building. Not even the richest business man is stupid enough to blow all is money on one purchase.

[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?

[Bluevann]

My FC leader: Okay guys, today we're going to sell Titan runs to make another 40M for a second FC house. Who's coming?

Me:

[Tazo]

Epilepsy

Keep it coming

[V3ndetta]

for those saying 1 plot for each FC, that's is still too easy to get around. that is as easy as giving xx million to my 3 friends who turn around, create 3 more baby FCs, subordinate to me, (assume i dont' just have 4 or more accounts already), and buy every plot around my main plot, again, freezing out the limited number of plots.

Everyone else s solution is, to tell Squenix to spend a few thousand dollars on data center upgrades on a game, they have no idea how many people will be playing in 6 months. so they roll this out, and hope that the feature keeps enough players to pay for a data center expansion.

[Beimer]

1st of all the information they gathered the average amount of gill players have!
Most of the players that have in excess of a mill are obviously RMT Gill seller affiliated.
They may be just holding it for a RMT sale!
2nd on my world there is this one RMT that has a unique signature and that RMT has just changed it letters around but the message is the same all the time!
Funny thing is that this player has been there sense the beta!
Why else would SE charge so much for them because this single event will in fact cause the RMT population to explode like FFXI and absolutely destroy this game before it even has a chance to expand!
It just don't make sense nor is it fair to save up six months to a year mining, fishing, crafting, etc. to get one while the cheaters buying Gill with real money or the RMT's buying one and showing it off could purchase three or more!
All this will lead to is more RMT transactions.

[fluidlikewater]

If the initial price of land was easily within the means of wealthy players, one can envision all available plots of land being snatched up immediately, leaving other players—even those possessing the necessary gil—unable to purchase land for an extended period of time. Seeking to avoid this, we made the difficult decision to go forward with the pricing scheme we presented, aware that many players would be unable to afford housing for a while.

If the fundamental problem is that individual player currency threatens to affect FC Housing then why use individual currency and not the FC Currency that already exists in game. Let the individual currency be used for individual housing and FC Currency be used for FC housing. This also naturally promotes larger FCs getting the larger plots since, I assume, they accumulate FC Points at a faster rate than smaller FC's.

Why is gil even a factor?

[leto_atreides]

I agree with the OP. Slice that Zero!

Many of us here simply because you have fulfilled the promise of an MMO with player housing, something that has not been done right in a decade!

We want our rich fantasy MMO world AND a place within it to call home, a place to decorate with crafted items and collected treasures, to show off to our friends, and to meet and coordinate with our small group.

We are new to this world, we joined a legacy server, and now find out that all of our savings are = to 1/20 of the land price, and that even after 3 MORE months, we will still not be able to afford it. So we have to leave our server now to even hope to afford a house?

It is also a shame that honest players get the shaft based on some back-of-the-envelope math that includes rotten thieving RMT sellers/buyers. Why not take a sample of honest players are re-run your math? Why include the ENTIRE playerbase, which is so very likely to scoop up the baddies.