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

[Zantetsuken]

Human beings have an innate sense of fairness and will reject that which they deem to be unfair. Even if a deal will benefit the recipient, people will reject the deal if they feel that benefit is not enough. This has been proven in studies. One study students were given a drink that made them more thirsty. Researchers then told each student that they were paired up with another thirsty person who was given a bottle of water and asked to divided it in two glasses. One glass had 1/4 the water of the other glass and the first student was told that was their glass(less water) and it was up to them to make a choice. They both drink or neither drinks. Which do you think people chose?

It's amazing how unhappy people become when they focus on 'Fairness' (which is, more often than not, just thinly disguised Envy).

Then again, when has envy ever made anyone happy?

[Rowe]

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The innate fairness humans have is what has allowed civilization to advance. Just as studies have shown people don't like being short-changed they also don't like being overly compensated at another's expense.

Legacy players paid a subscription to SE for 1.0. Our fees were a drop in the bucket in financing the remake but we showed loyalty to SE and the FFXIV team. We have been rewarded with a few minor perks, but we are being punished with the abusively high housing system's scaled pricing. Most Legacy players don't have 10s or 100s of millions of gil, we did things like level DoW & DoM and didn't focus on stockpiling gil. A small percentage did yet we are all lumped together.

I read Yoshi's post and each and every point was specious at best. Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see the holes in his reasoning and come up with less abusive alternatives.