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

[Sunarie]

@ Sunarie

Lol...really sorry but the topic name already suggests reducing the prices to 1/10 of the current ones.
Now how much would a small plot cost on my server? 600-700k? How much effort is that? Around 20min for a 50 man guild if everyone donates?
That's literally getting handed out to you.

And the creator of the topic is on a legacy server. His articles, and his posts, are about his prices. You also have to get your FC to rank 6 (so obviously some amount of work is required, even if the plot of land was free). For what a small plot is, how big it is, and the fact that you lose everything invested upon upgrading, it really should not be anything more than about 2.5mil for everyone. Just because you don't agree with slashing a 0 off -your- server's prices does not mean that all the prices are fine as is.

You must really hate FFXI, they gave you a house for free.. and everyone knows that game didn't require you to work for anything. <-sarcasm, in case you didn't catch it.

Also, before you go "well Yoshi said personal housing was going to be much cheaper".. he also said that about FC housing.

[3motion]

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Hey, I havent played FFXI so I cant say anything about it.

If he wants a zero slashed off on their prices, why can't we too? See that reasoning?
You can't please everyone in the game. It has and will always be like that.

I do not look down on you or your opinion nor try to bash you.
Also just sharing mine.

Edit : Oh and I won't reply to your post Roflcoptorz, even though you obviously meant me.
Nothing good will come out of it

[Sunarie]

Hey, I havent played FFXI so I cant say anything about it.

If he wants a zero slashed off on their prices, why can't we too? See that reasoning?
You can't please everyone in the game. It has and will always be like that.

I do not look down on you or your opinion nor try to bash you.
Also just sharing mine.

You're absolutely right, you cannot please everyone. However a game that wants to succeed is going to try and please most of it's player base, or at least try and get them to a point where they're -okay- with things but don't necessarily love them. Otherwise people quit and suddenly you're forced to shut down or go F2P.

You can want a price slash if you want, you obviously don't so I'm not even sure why you're saying that. Legacy players want to be brought down in line with others. And they have perfectly good reason. Their prices were way jacked up based on a few players having a lot of gil. Yoshi only cited a whooping 10, of everyone on the server. They don't get more per quest turn in, they don't get more per dungeon, and from what I have seen, their auction house prices are on par with those on the non-legacy servers. So since the in game economy and gil actually circulating (not just that being horded) seems to be about the same, why should their housing prices be higher?

Also, I wasn't arguing with you because of your opinion. I was pointing out you were/are making a strawman argument, which is putting words in people's mouth and distorting the actual problem.