What happened to 800k personal housing?

[Ashkendor]

Eh. We already know most of the small houses in the existing wards are owned by "satellite" FC's that are just parts of very large, rich FC's. Personal housing is pretty much just letting people do this without having to sidestep it.

Hey, we're getting new wards so FC's/individuals that want to upgrade to Medium/Large can do so. *shrugs*

I'm torn as to whether I should pick up a personal house or not. I really like my FC house so I might just leave the plot to someone else that doesn't have one and actually would like it. Then again, I do like to decorate... :3

I'm totally going to make a killing selling furniture, though. :P

[Rhode]

I began this game almost one month ago to this day. I'd like to think I've come pretty far in that month.

Then I see news like this.

It's truly disheartening to know that I, as a newer player to this game, will never be able to enjoy the "privileged" aspects of it. I may as well stop playing while I'm ahead.

Join, or create a free company, and then purchase a house. There is nothing stopping you from enjoying the "privileged aspects" of the game.

[Krr]

Join, or create a free company, and then purchase a house. There is nothing stopping you from enjoying the "privileged aspects" of the game.

Unless, of course, you are on a server with a severe land market deficit.

[Sessurea]

I think it's pretty obvious. They don't know how to do it.@cheap affordable house for everyone

[Felis]

Now the mad rush to grab the houses, only 2 new wards for ALL the players on the server >_>

Being on Balmung, I can only afford a small, but seems like might be hard to get.

6 new wards (2 for each residential district)

[SarcasmMisser]

Aside the 800k comment...this is what I am looking at mostly:

I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.
He lied. It's THE SAME price as a FC house.

That is certainly different, and that dev post is completely contrary to the system we see in the patch notes. I am just sick of that 800k figure popping up like it has in the very title of this thread, it wasn't even true when it was stated in 2.0

Also the fact that the reality is so different from the dev post should give you guys healthy skepticism by now about what devs say and how they shouldn't be taken as binding promises. Instead I see people meticulously recording every little thing a dev or CM has said as gospel and using it to compile a list of things in every patch. Doing that just sets yourself up for disappointment. We don't know what's in a patch before the notes come out and need to stop spreading misinformation.

[Kos_Mos]

My comment on personal housing here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-Thread/page4

[Mola]

Just remember, in addition to the plot prices, there is also the construction cost for the house. (maybe the savings is there?) And then to add personal rooms... if it's like FC housing, add another 300,000k into the mix.

[Rysir]

Welp, time to finish leveling miner to 50 then.

[Shyluv]

I've put up with minor disappointments in previous patches. This is a pretty big one. I'm not leaving, but my faith in future stuff is definitely gone.

Only because they did say that personal housing would be cheaper. And their whole reasoning for fc housing costing so much was "so players can work together to purchase land."

It does bring to mind old RMT conspiracy theories from XI.