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

[TheDeathWish]

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

Go. Away.

not all people that are on NA are so bad. Titan's Freedom Army on Exodus has some the nicest people ive met in mmorpg's, couldnt be a happier FC owner to have such awesome members. Rok is probly one them players who is a member and not someone who owns or manages one. Lets just not feed the trolls here.

[Beeraga]

People keep throwing 3 months around. That's three months in his own words grinding gil 7 days a week, and assuming everyone in your FC will do the same in that time. Who wants to do that for something so trivial? Ridiculous.

[TheDeathWish]

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 if SE's ridiculous pricing scheme.

I would muchly agree as i own my own FC and i myself am taking my time and building things up for my members as the house is to give bonuses and such as well the underground airship building and there Claim "to have the biggest housing in MMORPG history" thats something im looking for and just not expecting it to be soo much. It was hard to get my FC to 2 mill.

[Smashington]

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... Surely, the Powers-That-Be must have some sort of reasonable explanation. I'd like to hear it.

Should we keep bringing it up until it is addressed?

It seems too obvious to have just been completely overlooked by the DEV team. It seems like housing bought with FC credits solves a majority of the issues stated in the reply letter (except the lack of stable server space).

If housing was bought with FC credits, people would be spending all day looking at the currently irrelevant in-game achievements and doing all they can to pick the low-hanging fruit. You know, level a crafter to 10, go fishing for the first time, etc. From a content diversity point-of-view, this seems like an ideal situation.

Can't afford FC housing? Go find some achievements and complete them!

[mylam]

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Wholeheartedly agree with everything you've said. But alas, SE seems to love doing things the absolute hardest way possible. If they limited FC land titles to one per FC, all the concerns Yoshi said in his statement here would be addressed. How they overlooked something so dreadfully simple is beyond me.

Clearly, the driving force behind this is to eliminate gil from the richest of the rich, but why does that even bother them? It's not like the 10+ people (with hundreds of millions of gil) on a server of thousands will bother gaming the market so much that it destroys the economy. If anything, now that the land prices are so impossibly expensive, it totally promotes the richest of the rich to game the market to profit from others that are trying to save up to afford even the smallest plots of land.

Too bad this game just keeps getting more and more heat for how poorly they are delivering stuff to their playerbase. I really wanted to enjoy this game and spread the word at how awesome it is, but man sh*t like this makes it so, so hard.

[Fal13nMetalGod]

Look if I'm honest this will end up being fine. They It was already stated that prices will fall (albeit it'll take a while but it will fall) and that more plots will eventually be added. As well as that the dev team are looking at prices and will adjust the accordingly. While it may seem quite pricey for a house, i understand what they are doing here and am willing to wait. Plus we have a but load of other content to play while we wait (which can generate us more gil).

[Cegiana]

With this pricing scheme, we sought a balance in which roughly 80% of all existing free companies will be able to purchase at least a small-sized plot in three months’ time.

OMG, someone give this guy a clue, almost NONE OF US want the small ass crappy Inn-Sized house, it's so small and shitty that it's not worth the gil, not even if the small house was way under 1 million gil, it would not be worth it. It's basically a moghouse from FFXI that you have to share with 2-500 people...who the hell wants that? Geez, making me hate this game, cut the crap already, I'm not paying you to screw me over.

[TrystWildkey]

Look if I'm honest this will end up being fine. They It was already stated that prices will fall (albeit it'll take a while but it will fall) and that more plots will eventually be added. As well as that the dev team are looking at prices and will adjust the accordingly. While it may seem quite pricey for a house, i understand what they are doing here and am willing to wait. Plus we have a but load of other content to play while we wait (which can generate us more gil).

What if you chose a Legacy server because your friends were there. But due to the Legacy server having a higher population that already had relics, they decided to slow down this progression for everyone. Now, instead of going through the same amount of effort to get a relic as other servers, because you're on Legacy and other players already have them, you have to win Chimera 10 times instead of 1. You also have to beat each hard primal 10 times as opposed to 1. You have to get the base weapon and meld it 10 times instead of just 1.

But, that's not fair!!! Oh, but you see, there are so many people that already have relics, even some players that have a relic for every job, so you see, we needed to limit the number of people that got relics. So sorry, these requirements will ease up in the next 3-6 months. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of the content!

[Tipsy]

Why does this response only have a like / thumbs up option...? IMO this is an unacceptable response to just say "Hey we're sorry for the thousands of people that disagree with our "Fundamental Pricing Stance", but it is what it is, so deal with it". As a community, the majority of the people who have been looking forward to housing who play this game were expecting to be able to participate in this content upon release of the patch.. And now you're saying less than maybe 10% are able to afford the housing? and probably less than 1/2 will be able to afford it within the next 3 months?! THANK YOU for taking the interest in the COMMUNITY to heart in your decision, because I'm sure that's what's really in the forefront of your mind and not the millions that you'll make off of subscription fees in the next 3 months to have this content dragged out, considering that so many people are bored with the content that is available right now!

[Centershock]

I haven't gone through the 96 or so pages of this. Let me see if I'm getting this right. If I'm wrong, someone correct me on this please.

If I grind 7 days a week for 5 hours and get what... 20k gil a day, I'll be able to afford a house on a small plot.

20,000 x 90 = 1,800,000 gil

So that's not even enough to get a small plot on Balmung.

Unfortunately, some of us don't have 5 hours a day to spare. We have jobs and other things we need to take care of. So for us, this 3 month deal will end up being 5-6, maybe even 7 months...