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

[Iymala]

I wouldn't say your reason is justified, already know quite a few people who have over 10m alone.
And they did work hard making that gil

I am sure they did, but they also, at least on Cactuar, charged astronomical prices for a long time for what they were making. Prices.... that a new 50 should not be able to legitimately afford based on the amount of gil entering the world via questing. They obtained illegal gil in almost every case from players who bought gil from RMT. Since within that first month before repair prices were fixed and mobs dropped more than 1 to 2 gil there was only so much gil entering the economy.

So yes house prices are screwed hugely from illicit activity from RMT regardless if they are holding tons of gil atm (which they are) but how much gil they put into the economy since launch from people buying it and spending it.

[TrystWildkey]

Isn't the reason you cannot afford the housing because you aren't skilled at making money and not working hard enough either for it?
I wouldn't say your reason is justified, already know quite a few people who have over 10m alone.
And they did work hard making that gil

Oh, you're right! My sincere apologies. Instead of playing an MMORPG to level my battle class, progress through the storyline, do quests, level my crafting classes and otherwise engage in the game mechanics, I should have been playing the market.

How silly of me! I thought we were playing an rpg, not an economics game. I've been playing wrong this whole time!!

Edit: Also, you're on Cerberus, the second cheapest set of servers. Have you seen the prices for Durandal yet? Or did you just skip over those?

[TheDeathWish]

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Hold Up, Who actually liked this post geez. If people knew anything about the housing you wouldnt be talking that way.
1. They are gonna have bonus's at somepoint when crafting inside
2. Retainers(2.2 i think)
3. Underground Workshop to build airships and boats.
4. oh and not forget there claim "To have the best housing in MMORPG history" or
So there is alot to look forward to not everyone is into epic drops and combat
Remember as well we are all paying the same monthly price and this is not a pay to win game.only Rich FC can get into, gil in circulation by RMT assioates is more then 10% i hate to tell ya.game even allows for underground mining and gathering. No anti cheat protection for us to prevent this from happening.
**IDEA**
most bot apps dont run in fullscreen and something i seen in Infestation Survival Stories was that if you use alt+tab to switch to something the game will close out. I think this should be implemented.

[Centershock]

It doesn't take that long. One FC on Lamia already owns a very enormous house in Mist and our FC got about 80 percent of the way to Rank 6 in a single day. Money is still very much the issue though.

Are people suddenly forgetting the fact that there is a HUGE difference in costs in plot deeds between servers?

In Lamia, the smallest plot on a first-class area starts at 8 million. In Balmung, the smallest plot on a first-class area is 25 million. Let's not even get into the bigger plots.

It may not take long for you, but it'll be astronomically longer for people in servers like Balmung, Excalibur, Gungnir, and Hyperion.

[R0llingThund3r]

This is FFXIV: ARR Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida.
Fundamental Pricing Stance[INDENT]Our fundamental stance toward housing prices was that we wanted to ensure that plots would be evenly distributed, avoiding a situation in which the wealthiest players could easily buy up all available plots of land. Please understand that while we will be adding servers and expanding housing areas as soon as we can, it is simply physically impossible for us to accomplish this easily, in a matter of one or two weeks.

Really? This is the best you can come up with?


Here is what would have been a simple and easy solution, that would have made infinitely more sense:

Rather than having FC land plots cost and absurd amount of gil, which will then be directly removed from the servers, why can't we purchase it with this, so far, useless FC currency that we have sitting around collecting dust (which is already communally gathered)?

I currently run a fairly active FC of 150+ members, we keep, and have kept, up a FC buff every day since release (sure we may have missed 1 or 2 here or there). We currently have enough of this FC currency to have a NEW more expensive FC buff up EVERY DAY for OVER a year, notice the caps as they were on purpose. Now, that being said, the houses themselves, yes, those should be purchased with gil, as those are made by crafters.

But what about all the big FC's being the only ones able to get the large plots? SO WHAT? They are bigger, it makes more sense for them to have big plots. In fact, that should be a permit restriction, ie large plots only available to FCs with members of 150+, 200+, etc. Granted, that may not be 150+ active members, but I can say that my FC has 30-40 active members 24/7.

The point is, FC's already have more of this FC currency that they could ever use, and even if you added more for us to spend it on (which you haven't other than more buffs, big woop) we would still have an overabundance. This FC currency is already farmed jointly by the FC members, and we FC leaders don't have to beg our members for it.

I personally saved 90% of the gil I've gathered since re-release, while I watched other members frivelously squander their means only to have my face slapped by a producer that claims to want to build a strong gaming community. I will still continue to play, I will attempt at providing my FC with a home, I will still support this game (even after purchasing it no less than 3 times due to various misshaps on the part of SE and their sudden inability to release a quality product).

The answers are right there Yoshi, all you have to do is take that cotton our of your ears and listen. Your gamerbase is clamouring for you guys to succeed, but you all seem Hell bent on pushing us away. Is this perhaps SE's way of keeping their promises from 1.0 while at the same time committing MMO suicide? Seems like an awfully expensive way to keep a promise.

[TrystWildkey]

Are people suddenly forgetting the fact that there is a HUGE difference in costs in plot deeds between servers?

In Lamia, the smallest plot on a first-class area starts at 8 million. In Balmung, the smallest plot on a first-class area is 25 million. Let's not even get into the bigger plots.

It may not take long for you, but it'll be astronomically longer for people in servers like Balmung, Excalibur, Gungnir, and Hyperion.

No, they've been conveniently forgetting that since the first page ^^

[pizzil]

All you have to do is play the game for a day and it becomes obvious that the RMT are all SE employees. Yoshi says he randomly plays with people, i believe him, i blacklist him everyday and the very next day or a few hours later he comes back as gfhdg fghdj it never stops. So they sell you gil that they just generate out of nowhere and then make housing prices so high you have 2 options: buy gil from Yoshi or pay real money to get a server change. Yoshi-P deceitful evil genius.

[3motion]

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Hey I've seen the prices and yes, I AM on Cerberus, the 2nd cheapest set of servers and yet my guild still is still missing several millions for a medium plot. So what? We're still working on it unlike you complaining about the prices.

The market is also part of the game, whetever you want to get into it is up to you. It just happens to be profitable everytime they release new stuff.

The thing is, people like you (probably) prioritize own progression way more than anything else.
Progressing seems much more worthwhile than donating gil to buy a house which isnt even yours, right?

Edit : Oh and I dont see a reason for the prices to be adjustet to your legacy server prices. I dont think I have to explain why.

[MortalWare]

Isn't the reason you cannot afford the housing because you aren't skilled at making money and not working hard enough either for it?
I wouldn't say your reason is justified, already know quite a few people who have over 10m alone.
And they did work hard making that gil

Too bad this is supposed to be a game and not WORK. Nice try.

[3motion]

A game doesn't mean everything gets handed out to you. Nice try