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

[ArkhamNative]

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.

Oops! Corrected. ty.

[WhiteGarden]

Actually - divide it by another 4 and you've got my vote

Small shouldn't be more than 1 mill - anyone remember Yoshi claiming 3 players leveling up to 50 should be able to affor one (house) - not specifying the size so lets asume worst and say small?? That shouldn't be (much) more than 1 mill then.

Medium 4 - 5 mills

Large 10 mill tops

Anything above that is extortion and or idiocy for causual content with (currently) no other than "show-off" value.

Ok. I didn't want to seem 'greedy' but I agree. The small certainly isn't worth more than 1 million. But the medium/large could go for more. 10 mil for medium and 25 for large?? lol if only we were in charge!!!

SE should have a contest with the winner being in charge of FFXIV for a day!!! We could get things straight around here lol

[LiadansWhisper]

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.

My FC wouldn't fit into a small house. Even with an "RP Reason," it wouldn't make any sense for our Free Company's in-character organization/foundation. We want a house so we can hang out in it and make it an RP focal point. At this point, a Medium or Large is the size we need. We simply have too many players in our FC to make it with a small house. I mean, have you seen them? They're smaller than the inn room! Honestly, they should be single-player housing, not FC housing.

[LunarEmerald]

I personally feel prices should be

small: 500k. Something anyone could afford. Small fcs could have their own house.
medium: 3 million. Something few could afford without people pitching in. Would require a decent size fc
large: 10 million. Something 1% could afford. Requires a very large fc with many rich members willing to contribute

These would be non legacy prices.

[FJerome]

My FC wouldn't fit into a small house. Even with an "RP Reason," it wouldn't make any sense for our Free Company's in-character organization/foundation. We want a house so we can hang out in it and make it an RP focal point. At this point, a Medium or Large is the size we need. We simply have too many players in our FC to make it with a small house. I mean, have you seen them? They're smaller than the inn room! Honestly, they should be single-player housing, not FC housing.

*shrug* Well, since the Adventurers' Guild provides us all with free room and board our company's house is just going to be our beach hut for crashing and chilling out, it'll be about the right size;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_hut

[Dyvid]

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

[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.

[Reinheart]

Potikun updated the chart with the new values for housing

、ハウジング価格表更新！（｀・ω・´）

[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. >.>