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

[T2teddy]

I think they are calculating all the RMT bots and traders with all the gil, dont get me wrong they are keeping up well but not everyone wants to spend game time reporting RMT

So I'm to believe that having a whopping 4, count 'em FOUR RMTs deleted from my list of 142? Over half have been there since the first week of the game! And each and everyone has been reported using SE's preferred method of reporting RMT.
Four...good lord.

[Cichy]

So I went today before maintenance again to the Uldah housing place and still 0 houses up and I'm on our ultra rich Hyperion. Gj SE /workingasintendedps3limitations

[Lamentations]

SE should hire ME instead, because I've come up with a solution in less than 1 minute (Apologies if its been mentioned, there's a LOT of posts to read). COMPANY CREDITS.
1) Its a COMPANY House, so why not use Company Credits, a resource accumulated through Company members to purchase FC houses?
2) Its impossible to scam/control/abuse a market where the currency is impossible to farm/trade/obtain illegally.
3) Limiting a FC to one house would instantly remove any chance of abuse, and this allows FCs to obtain a house appropriate for their size.
4) If they insist on consuming our gil, perhaps making the land purchasable with Credits and the houses themselves with Gil.
I think I just solved each and every issue. Comments and feedback appreciated.

See this guy knows what he's talking about,

Point 1: This would have been a much easier and less controversial way of acquiring housing.
Point 2: This "Is Going To Happen", some FC leader is already planning his/her extortion of FC members gil.
Point 3: I was of the opinion that this was already in place, if it isn't SE just made themselves a problem that didn't need to exist at all.
Point 4: SE has waged such vicious war on RMT"s, it's hard to understand why an overabundance of gill has anything to do with housing costs in the first place. I guess because some players saved large amounts of gill they need to be bled dry of it now, acquiring it in perfectly legitimate ways, Of course I still see the same mining bots in Eastern Thanalan iv'e seen for weeks now, who knew.?

[NekoYna]

So i didn't go through all the pages of comments, but why didn't you guys just restrict the amount of houses instead of setting prices so high? oO
This is one of the most questionable things you've done so far...
With the thing, i couldn't sell any raidloot to other people and don't waste my limited time and money on craftingclasses, me and my friends will never afford any of this houses...

Pls think a little bit more about the most disturbing issues and take help from other people. Communicating is very helpful in business. Other games have features we would like too, and if you don't respond on our problems and questions properly, more and more people will leave to other games faster than lightning...

so think about your future, i know the pressure is high but being overpatiant and paying money for this is hard for most people. You've done good work with 2.1, but there are some ugly things you should fix and change, so keep up the work and build up a solid game first instead of programming nearly useless events.

[omgitsDavid]

The explanation makes complete sense if you have a brain. Thanks SE for trying to protect the players, even if most can't understand that. +1 Yoshi

[LordBelialX]

The explanation makes complete sense if you have a brain. Thanks SE for trying to protect the players, even if most can't understand that. +1 Yoshi

I think you missed my Company Credits argument... In fact the only use for credits is Actions. My FC has at the most 10 people on per day, and we always make more credits than we spend. So why not give those Credits some concrete use? My post is a few posts back; please check it out.

[Axidrain]

The explanation makes complete sense if you have a brain. Thanks SE for trying to protect the players, even if most can't understand that. +1 Yoshi

i dont understand how its the player's fault they couldnt get the RMT problems under control. :3

[Muzy]

i dont understand how its the player's fault they couldnt get the RMT problems under control. :3

In a sense it is, since players create the market, and as long as people are willing to pay, there is a market, and as long as there is a market, there are going to be people determined to take advantage of it.

[Axidrain]

In a sense it is, since players create the market, and as long as people are willing to pay, there is a market, and as long as there is a market, there are going to be people determined to take advantage of it.

what about the legit players? doesnt seem fair to punish everyone for a few rotten apples dont u think? i would also like to bring up botting here. have u any idea how many people are botting in the game at any given moment? i can give u the specific spots where these botters are at. despite how many reports ive made on them. theyre still there. weeks upon weeks upon weeks.

[Namko]

Yoshi P, I'm afraid it's showing you have not been playing your own game.

Stop developing for a moment. Make a character on a legacy server, set a few DoW to 50, maybe a craft or two. Give yourself about 200k Gil.

Now play the game for a week or two. Let me know how you feel about house prices.

Overall I love the update but the house prices have been a crushing blow, morale is low in our FC and it's become stressful to play.