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

[ZohnoReecho]

If in 3 months your FC is not able to match half the price of tier 3 servers (max price) you are doing it wrong or not trying at all.
And I'm sorry for those FCs whose members think they are going to buy someone else's house.

[KraggyKor]

And I'm sorry for those FCs

I'm one of those 'morons'.

Why? Because this is a GAME. In this game I joined an FC that had been created by someone whose 'philosophy' of what a GAME is and jelled with mine, and found several others of like mind. I along with many of the rest have given gil to this guy to build up funds for an FC house.

I have by no means given the most, my contribution ATM stands at 250k which is around 2/3 of my nett wealth, solely from leveling (I don't craft) one toon to 50 and another 40. I'm likely going to give another 100K leaving me with around 50k over both toons.

I TRUST the FC leader. It's a risk, but the pleasure of being part of a group will enjoy the fruits of a combined effort is pretty hard to beat, and it doesn't have to be part of a phat lewt grind.

Worst case (won't happen)? I lose my gamble, lose my gil, /shrug and go on my merry way.

We don't need your pity, stop being condescending!

[ZohnoReecho]

I'm one of those 'morons'.

Why? Because this is a GAME. In this game I joined an FC that had been created by someone whose 'philosophy' of what a GAME is and is not jelled with mine, and found several others of like mind. I along with many of the rest have given gil to this guy to build up funds for an FC house.

I have by no means given the most, my contribution ATM stands at 250k which is around 2/3 of my nett wealth, solely from leveling (I don't craft) one toon to 50 and another 40. I'm likely going to give another 100K leaving me with around 50k over both toons.

I TRUST the FC leader. It's a risk, but the pleasure of being part of a group will enjoy the fruits of a combined effort is pretty hard to beat, and it doesn't have to be part of a phat lewt grind.

Worst case (won't happen)? I lose my gamble, lose my gil, /shrug and go on my merry way.

We don't need your pity, stop being condescending!

Someone that got housing for what it is

Secondly, for you people who keep claiming everyone needs to just shut up and work to get their house:
Entry level housing is a CASUAL feature in all MMOs. That's why people want access to it. Okay affording unique items or a mansion are supposed to be a gring/take work, but housing access is/should be lose to free. So, stop saying people should be forced to gring for months to afford the lowest level house. Your wrong.

Ya, personal houses. By now you got FC's, you are wrong.

if your closed beta theory is true , why they charge "beta testers" all their lifetime saving for it??? they should select a few people by making a contest and providing em housing to test for free or maybe even a small gil reward

On my server there around 500 FC with 11+ members and around 800 1-10 members FCs. A lot of the small ones are 1 or 2 ppl, so lets exclude 20% of those. We are talking about a rough amount of 1100 FCs.
Lets absurdly think that all these FCs will fill all the plots, that means putting even 100 members FCs in small houses if necessary, 1100 / 30 (rough amount of plots in each housing area)… it's 36. Now multiply that for 61 servers… 2196 instances. Now you would invest into the hardware power to keep 2196 running from day 1? And remember that this amount was calculated under absurd conditions. Instances that maybe will never be used or abandoned, with just a couple of houses inside, because in the end people will not be interested? Of course I'm going to start slow and see how many FCs really want an house, making them work for it. And remember that they will need even more instances when personal housing is coming.

At the moment they already implemented 5 instances for each zone, 15 per server, 915 total instances, so I think thats fair enough to start.