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

[Kassatsu]

Only 1house has been bought on Excalibur as of last night and that was a medium. SE is out of their mind with these prices. The act like that didn't take money from us at the end of 1.0

[Quesse]

Only 1house has been bought on Excalibur as of last night and that was a medium. SE is out of their mind with these prices. The act like that didn't take money from us at the end of 1.0

Correct, no one is buying houses.

But this is exactly what SE wanted. The truth is they do not have the infrastructure to support lots of FCs buying houses so they made pricing crazy high while they implement more servers.

If Yoshi hadn't led everyone to believe housing would be reasonably affordable then this would be fine. But SE promised 3-4 people after leveling 1-50 would be able to pool their gil and buy a house. This is simply a lie. Everyone was working towards that goal and SE pulled the rug out from under everyone because it would have been too embarrassing to delay housing or patch 2.1 until they had fixed their issues. To add insult to injury, they then concocted excuses about RMT, server economy, and gil issues. While these issues may be true, there are certainly other ways to deal with them than to screw everyone over with high housing prices. And the fact that no one is buying (which I'm sure they KNEW would happen) negates their reasoning that high prices would get gil out of circulation.

So much fail SE. Get your act together and fix this mess.

[TommyGuns]

Honestly, I don't think housing prices are such a problem. It has brought our free company together more. We do treasure hunts together to add to the pot. Crafters help other members with HQ gear so those people can save money for the pot. People are just working together more.

The reason noone has bought houses is because they are waiting 3 months so they can buy the best house for the money they have, not necessarily that they don't have money for a cheaper one now.

With that said, yoshi stated the reason they were so high was so those few individuals with over 100mils didn't buy all the land. A better fix would've been to just limit each company to 1 plot for now.

For those people that want to stay in a super small FC, sorry it is true you get shafted but if they were cheaper I'm sure you'd be complaining you can't buy the big plots of land. How about you join a bigger FC and just have a LS just for your small group of friends. It's the way the game is, adapt and overcome.

[Grizzlebeard]

The reason noone has bought houses is because they are waiting 3 months so they can buy the best house for the money they have, not necessarily that they don't have money for a cheaper one now.

So why have the reducing scale in at all then? Rich players will wait three months just like the poorer ones. The reasoning behind their explanation is pure idiocy at best and blatant deception at worst.