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

[Alora]

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.
I think I just solved each and every issue. Comments and feedback appreciated.

Thank you. Really thank you it's really a simple fix, but it's been overlooked my fc is sitting on 600k company credits which i think should be able to afford maybe a small house or with some more work get enough to get a small house, but it would be appropriate and people would be unable to "cheat" that system. This is quite possibly the best idea for an FC house to cost an FC currency... and just because it has to be a time sink it will take time for an fc to generate company credits so it still wins in that regard too for the people whining about it needing to be a grind. Make the purchase make sense.

[Colt47]

Why would someone release housing when the system has to be handicapped this badly? They might as well have said they are releasing a housing preview.

[TK0978]

I talked with my guild on this topic and we had actually came to a great decision on how they should do this.

Solution 1
Limit Free companies to only 1 Land Plot Purchase per month.

Solution 2
Limit a Free Companies Land Plot Purchase to 1 land plot for every X amount of players in the Free Company.

Both offer the ability to for a Free Company to own multiple plots while regulating total purchases at any given time.

[Darus]

I talked with my guild on this topic and we had actually came to a great decision on how they should do this.

Solution 1
Limit Free companies to only 1 Land Plot Purchase per month.

Solution 2
Limit a Free Companies Land Plot Purchase to 1 land plot for every X amount of players in the Free Company.

Both offer the ability to for a Free Company to own multiple plots while regulating total purchases at any given time.

Does an FC even NEED more than one house? I kinda feel it's a bit pointless to own more than one house. I can only see a big FC trying to buy out an entire instance for no reason one day (would be kinda cool, I must admit), but having more than one doesn't make sense.

I figure a better way is to restrict to 1 house per FC and restrict house plot size to number of players available to ensure that more small houses are bought than large.

[Smashington]

The pages just keep coming.

Let's make sure a mention of purchasing or discounting FC housing with FC Credits appears on every page.

FC housing should be based on the actual in-game accomplishments of the members!

[Reinheart]

Does an FC even NEED more than one house? I kinda feel it's a bit pointless to own more than one house. I can only see a big FC trying to buy out an entire instance for no reason one day (would be kinda cool, I must admit), but having more than one doesn't make sense.

I figure a better way is to restrict to 1 house per FC and restrict house plot size to number of players available to ensure that more small houses are bought than large.

One house for each zone and stuff would be fun to try also, so there are ways but buying out all the land at launch of 2.1? it's unrealistic and doubt anyone was even thinking of that from beginning... although like you said would kinda be cool to see it in action. Hi welcome to (FC name)'s ward lol

[Xeonerable_Mizu]

I think those plots are just gonna stay empty for a long period of time.

[Sinth]

The prices have nothing to do with gil sinks and everything to do with not having the servers capable of providing housing for everyone by the time the content was ready to be released. So they just released it at nearly unobtainable cost just so that they could say they fulfilled their promise of delivering housing in 2.1.

The argument that gil is more easily obtainable is damage control, not logic.

[Xeonerable_Mizu]

the fact of the matter is unless you join a giant fc or one with incredible amount of active members daily you wont be able to get said house. Theres no flipping way a FC of 10 to 20 members is gonna get a large house in the next 3 months unless they're all active every single day or had a crap ton of money prior to this even with increased gil amounts, which lets be honest isn't that much at all in reality. That's doesn't mean that FC was Casual or anything just means all 10-20 couldn't be on 24/7 to farm gil for a overly expensive house. The online rate for most of these 10-20 Fcs at a time is like 8-15 at best unless there is a specific event planned inside the FC. I don't see the majority taking advantage of housing feature for many months to come.

[Dhex]

ITT: A bunch of people that can't afford a house arguing over how affordable the houses they can't afford should be priced.

Y'all silly.