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

[Abriael]

Any "faithful" supporter most likely played FFXI and doesn't bat an eye at the thought of it taking 3 months to earn something. The amount of crying in this thread is hilarious.

Too bad that in FFXI housing was completely free.

And in FFXI Square Enix didn't ride the hype train as it did for housing in FFXIV.

Try again

[Tazo]

Too bad that in FFXI housing was completely free.

And in FFXI Square Enix didn't ride the hype train as it did for housing in FFXIV.

Try again

You miss his point entirely. To achieve anything worthwhile in FF11 it took awhile.....some things took years.

[Abriael]

You miss his point entirely. To achieve anything worthwhile in FF11 it took awhile.....some things took years.

I didn't miss the point. As a matter of fact, he missed it. Nothing of that was a vanity feature hyped as much as Housing in FFXIV has been, and all of it had entry levels. The problem with FFXIV's housing is that it does not have an entry level at all. If your company can't afford the overly exaggerated prices of a land plot, you're completely locked out of the feature for the time being.

Of course those trying to defend this blunder try to resort to every possible fallacy and unfitting comparison, exactly like you're doing, but it doesn't really work.

[Amiabelle]

I'm not sure if Free Company Credits has been addressed by the DEV team yet.

Did you consider having FC Housing purchased with FC credits and decided against it?

Is there a possibility that FC credits may be used to off-set the Housing costs still?

I can't see any reason why they weren't the primary currency used to purchase housing...

... [Credits represent] the actual combined achievements of the FC, which is exactly what the FC housing size and location should represent.

When it was first announced that FC housing would be rolled out first (majorly bad decision, in my opinion), I assumed it would cost Company Credits. It makes absolutely perfect sense to use them to buy a Guild Hall for the reason I bolded in the quote above. Aside from buffs, they don't seem to be used for anything else.

I brought this up a few times in FC chat but never posted it on the forums, because I assumed I must have missed a discussion somewhere where it was explained why this obvious-to-me option was decided against. Surely, the Powers-That-Be must have some sort of reasonable explanation.

I'd like to hear it.

[Dgsoil]

You miss his point entirely. To achieve anything worthwhile in FF11 it took awhile.....some things took years.

Adoulin gives you an entire island for free. We aren't asking for that, we just want prices to not be crazy high for something that is generally catered more towards the casual audience in the first place. The hardcores with 600 million generally don't give a flying flip about buying housing anyway.