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

[TrystWildkey]

Wow, one house was purchased on Durandal in the Uldah area, Ward 1. It is a small size house.

The house is open to all and they crammed as much furniture in it as they could. It was purchased by a Japanese FC and they have a giant Odin head statue outside ^^

Congratulations guys!

[Cubester]

So, apart from Yoshida-san's post that came down to "shut up and deal with it", this matter is now going to be ignored by the dev team?
I have to say, I was and still am very disappointed about how this is being dealt with.

[Sleverin]

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How upset are the JP players Reinhart? I can't imagine that they're the happiest as they were some of the dedicated customers like the rest of us Legacy but they get screwed the hardest. I know some very rudimentary Japanese, so I can't really follow the conversations.

I'm always thankful for your translations and you're right, we get seriously amped up once we read them. This is a big slap in the face though, between housing and CT the "once a week" dungeon that was lauded as their big schtick which should have been released at launch is just goddamn laughable. It's a fun dungeon, but man, that lockout is idiotic, since you can get MORE gear from Coil that's better in the same week.

[Amarae]

Me and my friend recently got this game and we were pretty excited about all this housing business, now not so much. Really disappointed.

[Beeraga]

So, apart from Yoshida-san's post that came down to "shut up and deal with it", this matter is now going to be ignored by the dev team?
I have to say, I was and still am very disappointed about how this is being dealt with.

Evidently they are too busy banning people from the forums.

[Darkillumina]

More than likely they realized that:

1: Their servers are garbage and could not handle the load if prices were cheap and everyone crammed into an area.

2: They need to cover for a lack of long-term content with some sort of grind. Voila! Exorbitant housing fee's and insane lock-outs.

Ahh, I still remember the complete positivity around the future during the 1.2x days and what 2.0 would bring.

[Lamentations]

[QUOTE=Sinth;1700003]The prices have nothing to do with gil sinks

No offense is intended when I say I disagree with the first part of your post, this is most certainly also about gil sinks. In this game after playing xi for some years SE here at least is paranoia central about large amounts of gil in the economy.

In order to limit RMT activity set price gates are established that limit what bots can charge and succeed in selling by setting those standards on vendors, the beastman vendors have now raised that mat lvl to 40, this stalwart gating sets a governor on the pace of the economy, and directly affects players who avoid illegal transactions altogether.

At first glance XIV's economy looks like a book titled "The best of a free economy", however between the front and back covers it looks more like the mob (rmt's) vs. the politicians (se), with the playerbase caught in between and utterly screwed.

[Coris]

Quite the opposite.

FF14 has had RMT from day one back in 2010. Nobody bought Gil in 1.00 and the RMT machine just kept building stocks of it. Those stocks are what Square are using as an FC standard when deciding prices.

I remember always seeing a bunch of characters with roll-head-over-keyboard names standing around at Cedarwood, grinding that one leve with the black sheep.
HUGE EDIT!
Went to the 1.0 Archive and found the thread regarding the 'players' on the screenshot below. The german Rep responded back then and told us how to report such players. But since I never saw the numbers of those decreasing, I do not think many reported them. Plus they didn't look like they were doing anything against the rules/using bots, except having strange names, looking the same, standing around in huge groups and following one person who was killing monsters. AND they didn't shout or /tell you advertising for buying gil.
Someone repsonded to the Dev back then and said that it is (was) complicated and not possible to add detailed information in the recommended way. Regarding the ability to report botters it really has improved in 2.0

Couldn't take screenshots without Interface back then...
PC says I took this on 30th of June 2012

P.S.: That screen was taken on Masamune

[Mjollnir]

I recall trying to get all of the 1.0 behest achievements and the Cedarwood one being a mighty pain due to the sheer weight of RMT characters meaning the behest NPC wouldn't appear on my screen. :/

[Totorana]

When we started collecting money at a fast pace before the patch, we thought that we were collecting at a very good pace. But when the prices were announced, we found that there was no way we could ever produce that kind of money in any given period of time. We don't care what kind of money other rich players have, we worked like crazy for weeks on end to try and get gil to pay for housing, but it just turned out that we were fooling ourselves apparently. Also if you notice, almost no one has bought a single plot of land. Maybe you guys should take another look at your figures, and try to think of a better way to allow players access to company housing.