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

[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.

[Krystalynn]

So many other ways of fixing this issue than what they chose. They could have easily limited the amount of homes an FC could buy, or basically make it so a house has to be owned for a % of time before it can be let go, or sold, or whatever it is they're so afraid of. The guild rank requirements alone could prevent an FC from just making new puppet FCs for housing. -sigh- SE you're so green at this it hurts.

Yoshida, you make us wait months for this release, then want us to wait THREE more months before we can even consider if housing is an option. That is such a scumbag thing to do to Legacy players. If you were a player in this game, even you would fucking hate this. I honestly question if you'd even stick around and play it.

[Hmoob]

He follows the thread closely! This is cool. Who in MMO does that? Only mr. cool yoshi does! lol

[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.

[TheDeathWish]

What about people new to the game and just starting there FC mind you we have 130+ members but still hard to get 8 mill for 1st small plot. I understand that the total gil of all players so the less fortunate get to wait a decade before they see there own land. who would want to wait 90 days for it to be affordable and if your gonna expand more instances then why not make it more workable

[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.

[TheDeathWish]

and dgsoil is right its only the hardcore FC like excel who sell titan runs for 200k each that can afford it

[TrystWildkey]

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.

Oh, look! Yet another person from the cheaper server telling us we're whining.

Go. Away.

[Cubester]

Its a house. You dont NEED one. People need to calm down and just wait patiently until they can afford one. Geez
How is this even a huge issue? Prices will come down.

Don't come in here and tell us what we need or don't need. Not everyone is into this game for the "epic loots" and 24 man raid content.
This "just a house" happens to be a major part of the 2.1 patch, a part I and a lot of other people were looking forward to enjoying at the release of 2.1 after being teased about it for so long. But we now find ourselves barred from purchasing a house because of SE's ridiculous pricing scheme.
If they knew that we couldn't actually use the houses until three bloody months down the road then perhaps they should've just told us so and released it in a next patch, avoiding all of this drama in the first place!

[Verdan]

I don't care if things took years in FF11. My small guild house for my buddies shouldn't cost 20 goddamn million. There is nothing we can't buy in this game already, with the few of us having millions on our retainers. It's crazy to think we can't even come close to buying the smallest, worst plots until maybe 3 months from now.