Q: will individual housing prices be based off server Gil amount like the FC housing?

[Nialle]

There is no excuse for SE to not be able to get enough servers to support personal homes, especially after they are going to have like 6+ months past release to anticipate the need and set them up. They are a AAA company for gawd's sake; not some poor indie studio.

[Xystic]

There is no excuse for SE to not be able to get enough servers to support personal homes, especially after they are going to have like 6+ months past release to anticipate the need and set them up. They are a AAA company for gawd's sake; not some poor indie studio.

People need to consider that personal housing is going to be per player. Take 600,000 subscribers and they each get their own personal home with a certain number of set items and etc.

Because we know personal housing will more then likely be cheap, most players will have their own, meaning if 80% of 600,000 subscribers or more of the population gets one, you can expect a gigantic amount of information space required.

We need to look at this from a logical point of view. Not from I feel this or feel that SE is not doing their job or not thinking properly. Cause 600,000 personal instances, each one being unique, is not something like 450 FC lots that we have at the current time.

We go from a couple hundred too possibly half a million or more instances. Not too mention if they don't limit the amount of houses per person, some people could buy multiples.

I wouldn't be surprised if we crashed x100 times at personal housing release.

[chococo]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that personal housing will be much cheaper.

Also I'm not going to invest in personal housing cause they offer no real features or currently have none officially stated to date. Storage and the idea of somewhere to hang out is nice but I'm truly interested in chocobo's, gardening and the crafter stations currently offered only by FC housing in the following patches.

the previous letter from the producer stated that personal housing will be much cheaper. However, SE doesn't necessarily keep their words as shown by their track record.

Did somewhere say that chocobo and gardening only available in FC house?

They really should remove the possibility of selling the deeds between players and just cap each character to 1 housing limit. If people want to move houses, they can just sell the land back to the NPC where people would buy from it.

[Xystic]

the previous letter from the producer stated that personal housing will be much cheaper. However, SE doesn't necessarily keep their words as shown by their track record.

Did somewhere say that chocobo and gardening only available in FC house?

They really should remove the possibility of selling the deeds between players and just cap each character to 1 housing limit. If people want to move houses, they can just sell the land back to the NPC where people would buy from it.

Like I stated, none of the letters have officially stated anything special for personal housing. Although, there aren't specific notifications for only FC housing we know that this information, gardening, chocobo and crafter stations were released along during the FC-live interview, meaning FC houses were more then likely or the only ones we know to likely receive these at the current time, on top of the fact that even questions were answered for some of the features.

The fact that personal housing will be much cheaper, means it will more then likely not have as many features as something that costs multiple arms and legs. That would be highly illogical if we charge people 4million+ for a small FC house with these features when you can each personally buy your own personal house at say, 600k+ and have all these features.

From a logical view point, it is highly unlikely, personal housing would receive multiples or any of these features.

Not to mention, FC lots, require players to really be dedicated to the FC. It puts a lot of stress on social interactions and trust. Giving them these specific features continues to promote the use of FCs. Giving personal housing too many of these features will draw this more into a single player RPG game versus a MMO.

Not impossible that personal housing may get some features but I would not put my bets on it knowing these facts.

That is why my FC and I are investing in a FC house versus a personal house. If things do flip flop, we could easily buy dozens of personal houses even after purchasing a good quality FC lot. We are aiming the safest route versus sitting and waiting to be possibly disappointed.

[Cegiana]

Two things.

1. If you think personal housing will be affordable, then you don't learn from history, very very recent history. Remember, until FC Housing prices were announced, we were told that the gil earned by going lvl1-50 on three character would be enough for a FC housing...

2. To those that think FFXIV would have a hard time giving all of us personal housing, remember FFXI gave each character/mule their own moghouse which is the same idea as in FFXIV, a small area that you can customize. So if 11 year old FFXI can do it, it would be expected that FFXIV can handle it. Besides, if a small FC house is the same size as a FFXI Moghouse then personal housing will probably be less than half the size of your INN ROOM.

[Nialle]

Remember, until FC Housing prices were announced, we were told that the gil earned by going lvl1-50 on three character would be enough for a FC housing

It was never claimed that price range would be for FC houses. Re-read the transcript.

[Kinseykinz]

It was never claimed that price range would be for FC houses. Re-read the transcript.

If you are using the gil that you and 3 of your friends can save up by leveling 1-50 via the storyline (so 4 people) to buy a house, then that is NOT a personal house. It would be group housing. Which then implies, by your logic, that personal housing can be shared.

So either, we can share personal homes with other players, the 3-4 player level 1-50 savings comment DID refer to FC small housing, or SE expects only 1/4 people to buy personal homes...with donations from their friends who are happy to live out in the cold wet streets for them.

Also, it's probably not just a coincidence that in order to start a FC in the first place you need someone to unlock it and 3 people to sign the petition...or you know, you+3 friends....

Oh, and the ONLY housing SE has shown us thus far, and the only features shown have been those of FC housing...

[Nialle]

If you are using the gil that you and 3 of your friends can save up by leveling 1-50 via the storyline (so 4 people) to buy a house, then that is NOT a personal house. It would be group housing. Which then implies, by your logic, that personal housing can be shared.

Where did he ever say the housing price would be 4 people saving the quest gil they got from leveling to 50? He said it would cost around the amount of gil you get from leveling a class to 50 TIMES THREE (so around 500k x 3, since I've heard people say that if you saved most all your quest gil you'd have around 500k at 50). He never said 'four separate people's worth of savings for one house' in the original vid where they talked about housing costs. He was talking about personal house pricing in that vid, not FC houses.

Every statement they ever made about 'FC House Pricing' up until patch 2.1 was just 'It will be based on the economy's gil amounts and we can't say what it will be until the patch releases'. There was never any 'lying about house costs' going on.

[Joejr23]

They failed to realize how many people in an effort to make money turned to one of the few places they can make money which is the market place. Which caused massive price drops the hardest hit were the "Legacy worlds" and the nonlegacy players who joined that server to play with their friends who were legacy. I think they need to come up with new ways in which to decide prices on the new things that come out because all the new system does is push players who are impatient or tired of working hard to make money into the arms of RMT. What they should do for the player housing is announce a rough estimate of what the prices for the houses might be watch the markets on each world and the FC's and see how each economy reacts and adjust the prices accordingly. So that new content makes the game more enjoyable for all not just some like has been my experience lately.

[snakey77]

I really hope not. I can understand if the want to put a gil sink for huge expensive houses. But a basic simple house should not cost anyone their life savings.

Thats the thing though gill sink my bum i think they underestimated that ppl would be that blown away that fcs would just blow all there money on a shoe box with 100s of members.. BAH!!! i know in behemoth 3 yes just 3 house to date have been sold all small places just moved to tonberry to day so I'm yet to see but i guessing not many