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

[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'.

[LunarEmerald]

You apparently skipped my point.

Group of 8 people doing TH using Peiste maps.

Using your prices at max it would take this group:

5 days to afford a Small house.
30 days to afford a Medium house.
100 days to afford a Large house.

And that's just by doing Treasure Hunt.

I agree that getting a house should be accessible to everyone (and I did mention that I agree with your suggested prices), but I'm not going to pretend that raising 10 mil would take much effort.

The majority of people aren't going to do this.

You also assume that people would be willing to give up all the gil they make towards the house.

[Richiealvian]

The majority of people aren't going to do this.

You also assume that people would be willing to give up all the gil they make towards the house.

But um, I mean the methods to actually generate gil is there, isn't it? It's just up to people whether it's worth their time or not to farm and then buy a house...right? Just because they don't want to doesn't mean it's not affordable..? (Although I do agree legacy prices are mad.)

[AyaneKiwara]

Checked small house... they should be free. Smaller than my room in RL.

Smaller than mine too.

I refuse to spend my company's money on the small house. It's a waste, imo.

[AmnesiaHaze]

small house should be free of charge for every fc to get to level 8 imo

[RUcio]

I am infinitely baffled by responses to the thread that says "Prices are fine, people just need to work for it, want things to be handed on plate and etc etc."

1. Clearly doesn't know how it feels like to be treated unfairly.
or
2. Have that awesome ability to tell self to suck it up and deal with it when being treated unfairly and gets shortchanged for something that one didn't even do or involved in.


We won't get a house anytime SOON™

[Gramul]

1. Clearly doesn't know how it feels like to be treated unfairly.
or
2. Have that awesome ability to tell self to suck it up and deal with it when being treated unfairly and gets shortchanged for something that one didn't even do or involved in.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "treated unfairly" or "didn't even do or involved in". Could you expand on that?

[saber_alter]

-snip-

SE disagrees with them. they already started adjusting prices to lower values for the more expensive worlds.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...86c0e6bc48426c
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8f97ffcc0455ce
also they are reducing the cost of small housing.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8de0140df31567

[RUcio]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "treated unfairly" or "didn't even do or involved in". Could you expand on that?

Just saying that it is unjust to treat the whole server a 'rich' server (Legacy) and jack up the price for house plots (For gil sink or w/e purposes) just because a small amount of players carried a large amount of gil, moreover when prices in other servers are a lot cheaper than the one you're in.

Then comes people who kept calling for others to grind for the gil if they want a house probably didn't even realize that most of us are actually working for the gil even before 2.1 hits.

And SE expect us to pay B amount when they told us it's A amount for a piece of land, amount that I don't even think it's reasonable to begin with.

It's hard to please everyone but it's even worse to treat everyone as if they're all on the same bandwagon and that's what SE did.

Not tying to start an argument or something, just my 2 gil thoughts.

[Dyvid]

Disclaimer: I agree Legacy Housing is crazy expensive and I too believe Cottage size houses need to be bigger. Having said that...

The majority of people aren't going to do this. You also assume that people would be willing to give up all the gil they make towards the house.

So basically the "majority" just wanted to be handed a house without actually doing any work to earn one. Gotcha ya.

I am infinitely baffled by responses to the thread that says "Prices are fine, people just need to work for it, want things to be handed on plate and etc etc." yada yada yad..
We won't get a house anytime SOON™

Just checked the prices over at odin and giving everything, the price on Tuesday will be roughly 5.1 million. If your FC can't afford that than they haven't been working to earn money, plain and simple. My FC did a few event, not a lot but we have 5million in the bank and ready to buy our house on the 21st.