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

[Cor_Dirge]

*facepalm*
Sure is a lot of crying.. FYI housing has already been acquired by a few free companies on Behemoth.. not Legacy.. It's obtainable if your willing to put some actual effort into it. So boohoo I can't afford one personally for 2-3 months (I'm estimating 80 days if no one else in my FC contributes) but this is FC housing, not personal. It is meant to be a group effort that takes some actual time, effort, and teamwork.

Or perhaps everything should just be instantly gratifying & soloable so it sucks out any sense of accomplishment attached to it and loses any sense of longevity, so we're all bored of subscribing in 2 months. Because that would never happen..

wow... I'm only on pandemonium and even I think your being a dick

[Coris]

Not sure why, but we started to craft various pieces of furniture. We now have several stacks of Firewood (just in case), a Riviera Stall, some Riviera Windows, an Astroscope, a couch and a Crofter's Wain to look at.
Maybe it'll be a motivation... but at the moment I really doubt it.

It is really depressing that you are able to craft all these cool types of furniture but do not have a place to put it =(

[MortalWare]

Some stiff competition coming up with games like EQLandmark and Wildstar. EQLandmark you get to build whatever type of house your want, Wildstar has free housing as well as a whole character class set of skills based purely on House development. The WoW expansion has free housing where you can own an entire Fort.

Will be interesting to see how the player base fairs once those games are out.

[Doo]

I thought money was suppose to be easier to make after the patch but seems harder.

1) More philos = cheaper crafted gear.

2) Drops from mobs increased. Karakuls drop 9 fleece often now and I heard you can buy it from beastmen dallies.

3)Materia cost going down. Savage aim 3 was less than 20k awhile ago.

How do you make money now?

[Rowe]

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?

Legacy housing prices are unfair. People won't buy now, they'll wait until they feel the price is fair. No amount of arguing will change how either side feels.

[Kallera]

I hate how right now only the jp thread has a chance of eliciting any new response until January. Bad prices are still bad, and the action itself raises questions on whether we should expect similar disparities in in future content.

[Huxer]

I think the thing is, SE sees this as a way to make housing relevant and have some importance for the community. The problem is that the people that they have catered to, are not really the good people who would use this housing for that purpose. The fact that housing was based on individual funds made being a whale the answer.... Is being a whale in a MMO the answer we want to foster? At the end of the day, this has only really stripped away that cushy layer of loyalty I sometimes have for a company. I will continue to play the game because I don't have another game lined up right now. The key is, now I'm looking.

[Kayaba]

My only problem with any of this is that they didnt want anyone buying up "all" the land. Why not just limit the amount of plots an FC can own to 1? Seems like a much simpler solution imo

[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?

[Quesse]

Something just hit me that I thought was funny.

Furniture was supposed to reinvigorate the crafting market!!!

Only. No one is buying houses, so no one is buying furniture.

lol?