The Effective Purchasing Power of Your Savings

[permbanned]

Not that I'm arguing, as that is certainly a large sum of money, but you do realize that they are planning to drastically cut the prices of land on Legacy Worlds so that they match the costs of non-legacy Worlds right?

Granted this won't be happening until next year, they're not blind to the complaints on the forum.

That's not the point. Why should some players have to wait longer than others to experience the same content? Everyone pays a sub fee. It just so happens that it's the people that stuck with the game when everyone else bailed on it that have been waiting the longest for this and now have to wait even longer, despite being told that what they did to our gil wouldn't affect our purchasing power. And to top it off, even new players on these servers are being punished for this. The value of gil should be equal across all servers except for on the market boards, since it's player driven, right from the start.

So what if there a few extra houses on legacy worlds? People playing on them have been playing for 3 years and, if I'm not mistaken, they're also the most populated servers. Housing should reflect that, yet it doesn't. It's completely backwards. There are more houses on new servers than there are on legacy comparing them server to server. In fact, I'm willing to bet there are a handful of newer servers that have more houses on one server alone than all the legacy servers combined.

All this talk about rebuilding the players' trust and all I see is let down after let down and I just want to know why. Why is 1/6 (likely even more since there are quite a few ghost-town new servers) of the entire population of the game being treated like they don't matter? How do you trust a company that does that?

[Nero]

The Problem i have with the Pricing is actually not the Price itself, it is more what SE and Yoshi said weeks/months before that. "3-5 People need to level from 1-50 to have enough gil for a house".

I still do not see how 3-5 people can get 20.000.000 Gil from just leveling from 1-50, for the smallest available Plot on the Server i am on. This was a totally missleading Statement and does not even fit for the cheapest World.

[Heat]

The Problem i have with the Pricing is actually not the Price itself, it is more what SE and Yoshi said weeks/months before that. "3-5 People need to level from 1-50 to have enough gil for a house".

I still do not see how 3-5 people can get 20.000.000 Gil from just leveling from 1-50, for the smallest available Plot on the Server i am on. This was a totally missleading Statement and does not even fit for the cheapest World.

I wish that's the only misleading thing that he did.

whats next? make legacy people pay 13$ instead of 9$? why not, you could do that.

[Raezaiel]

I really like how,

1. News of expensive housing is released.
2. People save money.
3. Price of housing is now based on money people saved for housing.
4. 625,000,000 gil! All that money you saved made the price of housing HIGHER!

[Wavytiger]

Announced adjustments today. maybe they will help.

[Fatestorm]

If SE wanted ARR to be a progress reset I think they should have been honest and forthright about it with us all along. When they told us we were keeping our gear and money it was clearly intended as a motivator; something we could work on if we wished for the remainder of 1.0's service to get a head start going into ARR. However, that "head start" turned out to be mostly meaningless. Our 2% drop rate dungeon speedrun grindfest gear became virtually-handout starter endgame gear. Our multi-million gil (post-redenomination) melds were compensated with a handful of dungeon runs worth of tomes (without even any special compensation for what had been expensive melds vs. cheap melds). White ravens? Stat wipe. Limited time goobbue? Not so limited after all (I know it's not identical). Perhaps worst of all, the relic quest was also trivialized relative to its original incarnation.

Most of those things we got over (some more easily than others) because seeing the game improve was more important. The housing fiasco put things over the top.

This is exactly it. This is what's so outrageous and why legacy members especially have a right to be furious with how this game has treated them.

[Acyd]

Posted today

As mentioned previously on the official forums ( http://sqex.to/-e5 ), the pricing of land for legacy Worlds will be adjusted in incremental steps to match the pricing of the following non-legacy Worlds (Hereafter referred to as Group A):

Bahamut／Behemoth／Cactuar／Carbuncle／Chocobo／Diabolos／Fenrir／Garuda／Gilgamesh／Ifrit／Leviathan／Mandragora／Midgardsormr／Odin／Ramuh／Shiva／Siren／Tiamat／Titan／Tonberry／Ultros


Pricing for the following legacy Worlds is currently set at 2.5 times the amount of those in Group A (Hereafter referred to as Group B):
Balmung／Excalibur／Hyperion／Ragnarok／Sargatanas

The final price of land for Group B will first be reduced from 2.5 to 2.25 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of the next week, the price will be reduced from 2.25 to 2 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of six weeks, the final price of land for Group B will continue to drop until it has reached the same value as Group A.
* Adjustments to pricing will apply to all plot sizes.

Pricing for the following legacy Worlds is currently set at 5 times the amount of those in Group A (Hereafter referred to as Group C):
Aegis／Durandal／Gungnir／Masamune／Ridill
The final price of land for Group C will first be reduced from 5.0 to 4.5 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of the next week, the price will be reduced from 4.5 to 4 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of eight weeks, the final price of land for Group C will continue to drop until it has reached the same value as Group A.

Furthermore, the final price of land across all Worlds will be re-evaluated at some point in the latter half of January. Please be advised that the pricing of land on all Worlds will be subject to change even after the above adjustments have been made.

[Nero]

from 2.5 to 2.25? God damn.. we are so lucky to save us 2 Mil on the cheapest Plot. So instead of 20.000.000, only 18.000.000 yay..

Oh even better.. the cheapest Large Plot is now not 250 Mil, it is only 225 Mil!...

Is that supposed to be a Joke or something? 1st April is like 4 Month away, so is there a different day for pranks, i am not aware of?

EDIT:

The thing is the factor: Time. Most people simply do not want to wait several Month to enjoy Content, which was released a week ago and actually is nothing more than "Vanity and Cosmectics". If my Server drops to 100 Mil instead of 250 Mil ( right now ), i am fine with that. But why not now? Why do we have to wait several weeks/month for those adjustments?

[permbanned]

Saw it and not satisfied at all. We still have to wait longer than everyone else. I'm tired of being treated as an inferior customer when I've supported this game far longer than most people. Prices should be equal for everyone. Not 3 months from now, not 1 month, now. This isn't an entitlement issue. It's a matter of providing each paying customer with the same service with no discrepancies between one customer and the next. Stop punishing people for supporting you.

[Heat]

I think we should unsub and come back after 3 months