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

[Fatestorm]

Well, if nothing else, SE is headed in the right direction. Take Balmung (Legacy, NA) medium plot pricing, for example:


("Actual" is shown through Jan 25ish.)

(I also posted a chart showing Small pricing on Balmung compared to Ultros (New, Tier 3) pricing.)

Thank you for these charts. They are really helpful for me.

[HEC]

FC Housing - OVERPRICED - please fix!

[Becken]

After thinking about the housing, the more I think, the more I want my moghouse and mog keeper back

[ArkhamNative]

SE updated its schedule of price reductions last night.

Small housing, all worlds:
SE changed the first cut of small housing plot price from a big drop of 25% tomorrow, to five weekly drops of 5% of original price. They didn't mention a change to the final drop to 50% of original pricing previously planned for late February.
The 25% drop actually happened as announced. The five weekly drops of 5% were for the 2nd half of the 50% drop. Apologies for misreading this.

Legacy world housing:
Group B (NA data center Legacy worlds) pricing will reach parity with Group A (most expensive new world pricing) on January 30 ~7pm PST. The price of cheapest S/M/L should be just over 5M/22M/74M at that time on those worlds.
Group C (JP data center Legacy worlds) pricing will reach parity with Group A & B on February 13. All 3 groups' pricing should be just over 4M/20M/67M for cheapest S/M/L plots, assuming no other price changes by SE before then.

[Kluya15]

SE updated its schedule of price reductions last night.

Small housing, all worlds:
SE changed the first cut of small housing plot price from a big drop of 25% tomorrow, to five weekly drops of 5% of original price. They didn't mention a change to the final drop to 50% of original pricing previously planned for late February.

Legacy world housing:
Group B (NA data center Legacy worlds) pricing will reach parity with Group A (most expensive new world pricing) on January 30 ~7pm PST. The price of cheapest S/M/L should be just over 5M/22M/74M at that time on those worlds.
Group C (JP data center Legacy worlds) pricing will reach parity with Group A & B on February 13. All 3 groups' pricing should be just over 4M/20M/67M for cheapest S/M/L plots, assuming no other price changes by SE before then.

Where can I look at this information? And I'm referring to the posts about price updates, not the actual house pricing you can see when zoning into the residential areas.

[ArkhamNative]

Where can I look at this information? And I'm referring to the posts about price updates, not the actual house pricing you can see when zoning into the residential areas.

It's on The Lodestone. The first few are in the news list. Click "Notices" to see older ones.

[HEC]

SE changed the first cut of small housing plot price from a big drop of 25% tomorrow, to five weekly drops of 5% of original price. They didn't mention a change to the final drop to 50% of original pricing previously planned for late February.

So - AGAIN - stalling tactics and lies ...

[AmnesiaHaze]

id like to see some stats on how many houses were bought since their arrival , how much gil has been spent overall etc.

[AmheliaPond]

The game is too controlled for my enjoyment anymore. With the way things are now, gil wise, it'll take a year maybe two for the average FC to afford a house. Do most FCs even last that long? Nope. Well play'd SE... keep those hamsters on the wheel and those subscriptions flowing.

[OrganizationXIll]

There are many Free Companies on my server with houses. I think there are 13 houses as of now. Three of which are "Mansions". If your Free Company has less than 20 people it isn't really a Free Company its more of a group that really needs to be a linkshell. You may not even be Rank 6 if you are new enough meaning you can't even buy it if you had the gil. I think prices are fine and they are still falling until February. You had to have actually planned for the house but that is the way it should be anyway. Also remember, this isn't personal housing. That will be coming later. Prices for Free Company Housing are appropriate in my opinion.