Balmung is Homeless on Christmas' Eve. Is this really what you wanted, Yoshida-san?

[Duelle]

And Lineage is an extremely outdated anyway. It's not nearly within market standards.

You said:

I can't remember a single MMORPG in which an overwhelming percentages of guilds couldn't afford entry level housing upon implementation, and this is made even worse here by the fact that there's no other kind of housing for now.

I mentioned one example of such. Don't backpedal or attempt to wave off my comment, as the example I presented was well within the context of your statement.

Modern games don't have much to present as a frame of reference. WoW never had guild housing (hell, they're just getting personal housing almost 10 years since the game launched!). Rift just got personal housing. Wildstar will have personal housing with guild forts (details of which have not been released as far as acquisition goes). SWTOR doesn't have real personal housing, as your ship is basically a hub to store your companion NPCs and little else.

FC Housing was touted as one the upcoming saving graces. It was going to be for all to enjoy, and brought energy back into the game.

My expectations changed when the plug changed from "housing" to "FC housing". As I've said, I kind of know how far that can be taken as far as obtainability goes.

Even people without houses, still say they have nothing to do

That was me taking potshots at those who whined about the game having no longevity during beta and on the 1.0 forums. As I've mentioned, I look at it as the devs intending it to take a while to obtain, which on a guild level makes sense. You could subscribe to the other conspiracy theory (the prices are a stalling tactic), but I don't see what good that would do.

That aside, would it have been better to implement everything (player and FC housing) at once? Definitely, as the market for furniture would move steadily seeing that demand would exist for both FC housing and player housing. That ship has already sailed, sadly.

Yes, housing is nice and I look forward to someday owning a small plot in Ishgard amidst the falling snow and the ocassional dragon attack, but knowing that FC housing has been implemented with the insane prices and the fact player housing is not in the game yet simply means we have to wait and see. I promise you that I'll be the one distributing torches and pitchforks if personal housing is prices anything like FC housing.