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

[Thunderz]

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I believe you can edit your post and add more.

on-topic: housing in this game is boring and I am relatively sure its not even "ready" per say which is why they have this ridiculous price [server limitation & the feature not even being fully developed]

This is pretty sad when you see a company scramble so hard to push content out...

[Kyana]

I believe you can edit your post and add more.

I know, but still ^^


Btw. this just popped up. An update to housing prices.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...6%29-Follow-up

And another interesting thread about the current number of houses on different servers.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ur-server-have
Not too many...

[ArkhamNative]

Kyana's post brings up a few good points:

- SE provides almost no information about housing. Kyana wants to know about policies, ownership, transfer, etc. I would like to know about capability (like: will some future housing features or content be available for all sizes?). These seem fair questions to ask before making such a huge purchase.
- Is housing luxury or hardcore? It's a luxury item, with luxury prices, and currently no tangible benefits, yet SE's economic policies and actions make it unaffordable except to hard core gamers. SE's own information says that playing 7 days a week for at least several hours a day will allow people to save enough for housing in "only" 3 months. 3x7x90 12 = 1,890 252 hours of gameplay, per person, multiplied by however many people in your FC, to afford an appropriate-sized FC house.
- Economic inconsistency. SE apparently doesn't approve of gil. They outright confiscated it from crafters who legitimately earned it, flooded markets to kill prices of high-demand items, allow botting to drive prices down, price-gouged housing to drain legitimate savings of players, etc. Yet they price housing in gil and expect people to play hardcore to amass gil from content to be able to afford housing.

[ArkhamNative]

Btw. this just popped up. An update to housing prices.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...6%29-Follow-up

Spreadsheet time! ( *tappety-tappety* )

Tomorrow's prices for NA legacy worlds:
• Legacy prices drop 14%.
• New prices: 10M, 37M and 124M for least expensive S/M/L.
• JP data center worlds will be double those prices

Fri Jan 24 prices:
• Legacy prices drop 17%.
• New prices: 7.8M 5.9M, 29.5M and 98.4M for least expensive S/M/L.
• JP data center worlds will still be double those prices

Edit:

Sorry if someone's posted this here already but it looks like they're reducing prices by 50% but on the small plot-sizes only?
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8de0140df31567

That's new. Thanks! I have updated the Jan 24 price of the small legacy plot to show the 25% reduction scheduled for Jan 20.

[FJerome]

Sorry if someone's posted this here already but it looks like they're reducing prices by 50% but on the small plot-sizes only?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8de0140df31567

[Percyphanie]

[NA] Price Adjustment on the Small Plot of Land (Jan. 16)
At the following time, we will be adjusting the price on the small plot of land.

[Date & Time]
Jan. 20, 2014 at around 8:00 p.m. (PST)

Based on the current economy of Eorzea and the sale situation of the land, we will adjust the final price on the small plot of the land down to half of the current settings on all Worlds.

The price will be adjusted gradually where first it will be reduced by 25% on January 20th, 2014 along with the release of the patch 2.15. In an additional adjustment, that is planned to be conducted by late February, the price will be reduced gradually down to 50%.

Furthermore, the final price of land across all Worlds will be announced once it is finalized. Please be advised that the pricing of land on all Worlds will be subject to change even after the above adjustments have been made.

[Percyphanie]

Great news!!! Square is reducing the price on a house size that nobody wants!!! Am I right about that? Seems like most threads say that the small house at least needs a basement in order for it to function on a FC level. So, why the reduction in small house prices? Why not just keep prices where they are and add a basement instead? More people would buy them then... right?

[FJerome]

Great news!!! Square is reducing the price on a house size that nobody wants!!! Am I right about that? Seems like most threads say that the small house at least needs a basement in order for it to function on a FC level. So, why the reduction in small house prices? Why not just keep prices where they are and add a basement instead? More people would buy them then... right?

Honestly, right now there's no reason to have any size except to show-off or because you want an RP venue. If you want it for the latter reason, which is why my FC wants one, then you can certainly come up with an in-character reason for owning a small-sized house.

[Ehayte]

SE's own information says that playing 7 days a week for at least several hours a day will allow people to save enough for housing in "only" 3 months. 3x7x90 = 1,890 hours of gameplay, per person, multiplied by however many people in your FC, to afford an appropriate-sized FC house.

That would be 3 hours a day * 7 days a week * 12 weeks (3 mo) = 252 hrs per person.

There are not 30 weeks in a month.

[Archulak]

That would be 3 hours a day * 7 days a week * 12 weeks (3 mo) = 252 hrs per person.

There are not 30 weeks in a month.

It's not even that bad if you do 6 dailies at the max level you make about 6k gil. So every player near 50 should be able to make 6k * 7 days * 12 weeks = 504000 gil. Meaning that even on the legacy servers when they get reduced down to the 3rd bracket and with the 50% cut on small houses(should come to about 2mil) you need a guild of 5 ppl doing dailies to buy a house assuming you lose about 15% of that to repairs. All for about 20min of work a day.