Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
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.