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

[Aylis]

Small - 1 Million
Medium - 5 Million
Large - 10 Million

Honestly after being inside both small and medium sized houses, still no large yet so i won't comment. Even with the price change announcement the costs still far out weigh the sizes. A small house can still only comfortably fit at most two people, the medium maybe 8 people at most, as for the large I don't know.

So what I want to know is what exactly is the purpose of a Free Company /house/? The depliction shows it as a place to live. A house to /live/ in. A normal suburbian neighborhood of homes where people water the lawn on Sundays, cut the grass on Mondays, wash the cars on Tuesdays and say "Howdy Neighbor" every morning when going out to get the morning paper. The houses I've walked in all reflect this with their big comfy couches and beds and hot tubs and feeling of being at /home/.

So am I missing something? Is this a cultural differential thing I'm missing? Is the idea of a Free Company /home/ mislabeled as a /house/ when it was meant to be a /business/? The place we all trudgeingly go to every morning to do our 8+ hours before going home to our normal houses?

If this is indeed a cultural thing and work in Japan is different from work in North America and everywhere else please let me know. Just because in all my time as shipping secretary never once have I gotten up from a meeting table to sit on a big comfy couch or lay in a big comfy bed or point out a window and say "Hey after we finish the talk on quarterly income lets all go and sit on the beach with umbrella drinks!" If the free company homes were meant to be business only then why is the setting not a industrialized city and why does the interior and exterior not resemble a office building or factory? If it was meant to be worked out of then why is it made to look like a place people would want to live in?

If that's the case I could forgive the prices and only if all future free company /house/ benefits. Yes I'm looking at you airship and boating docks, were active among all company house sizes, small, medium and large.

[Dyvid]

Snip.

It's whatever you want it to be. I've seen some designed as a clubhouse, other as a live in house, while other as a casual meeting area. If I purchased a small for my FC, I would set it up as a clubhouse with table, seating, and trophies on the wall.

As for the announcement, the problem isn't cost when it comes to selling Small Lots, it's size that is the big turn off. It really needs more floor space.

[LiadansWhisper]

It's whatever you want it to be. I've seen some designed as a clubhouse, other as a live in house, while other as a casual meeting area. If I purchased a small for my FC, I would set it up as a clubhouse with table, seating, and trophies on the wall.

As for the announcement, the problem isn't cost when it comes to selling Small Lots, it's size that is the big turn off. It really needs more floor space.

I don't think your tables would fit into your house. >.>

[Eekiki]

Two things that would make Small more attractive is adding a basement and the ability to resell a lot.

Yes. Very yes. A small house would be fine if it had a basement.

I don't think your tables would fit into your house. >.>

Have you been in any of the small houses on our server? There's a couple, and they're pretty decked out. Table, chairs, couch, bed, hot tub, wall decorations and more. I agree that every house should have a basement, but a small house isn't as small as you might think.

And they're practically bursting at the seams, they're so crowded.

And that's why they need a basement. But they're hardly non-functional.

[Naunet]

Have you been in any of the small houses on our server? There's a couple, and they're pretty decked out.

And they're practically bursting at the seams, they're so crowded.

[LiadansWhisper]

Have you been in any of the small houses on our server? There's a couple, and they're pretty decked out. Table, chairs, couch, bed, hot tub, wall decorations and more. I agree that every house should have a basement, but a small house isn't as small as you might think.

Um..lol. Yes, I've seen every single small house on the server except the newest one. They're so cramped and crowded that I can't spend more than a minute or two inside them before feeling incredibly claustrophobic. They are not Free Company housing. It's the size of house I'd expect for an individual, not a guild of 10+ people.

Please do not try to sugar-coat poop, dude.

[Dyvid]

Um..lol. Yes, I've seen every single small house on the server except the newest one. They're so cramped and crowded that I can't spend more than a minute or two inside them before feeling incredibly claustrophobic. They are not Free Company housing. It's the size of house I'd expect for an individual, not a guild of 10+ people.

Please do not try to sugar-coat poop, dude.

"Also would it be possible to add a basement to Small Free Company Housing? Many believe it's just too small for several people to fit in." I posted this on the Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XII! (General). Not sure how they chose what to ask but it wouldn't hurt to like and let them know the community wants the floor planning on Small changed.

[LiadansWhisper]

"Also would it be possible to add a basement to Small Free Company Housing? Many believe it's just too small for several people to fit in." I posted this on the Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XII! (General). Not sure how they chose what to ask but it wouldn't hurt to like and let them know the community wants the floor planning on Small changed.

I'd just have to ask...where they would fit the stairway down? :-\ It's so tiny, I don't see where they could put it. :-\

[Eekiki]

Um..lol. Yes, I've seen every single small house on the server except the newest one. They're so cramped and crowded that I can't spend more than a minute or two inside them before feeling incredibly claustrophobic. They are not Free Company housing. It's the size of house I'd expect for an individual, not a guild of 10+ people.

Please do not try to sugar-coat poop, dude.

You are so rude. I'm done talking to you.

[LiadansWhisper]

You are so rude. I'm done talking to you.

But not done camping out in people's hottubs I bet!

Also, in terms of rudeness, I somehow think that you calling anyone and everyone who has a problem with the housing prices "entitled" and saying we just "don't want to do any work for it" is a sight more rude than me calling you on trying to call a pile of poop a diamond.

Just sayin'.