Personal Housing Questions

[Chiapet]

I'm so furious right now. He lied. YoshiP lied. I defended him. I said he wouldn't do certain things. He did and wants us to take it as if we are STUPID. He. LIED. They were supposed to be separate zones with prices reflecting that 1 person was paying for it. I'd rather they postpone it until they had it right instead of this. I will no longer support him or defend him.

Right on the head.

Btw SE why dont you just charge us real life money for gil or whatever and maybe we can just raise enough money to buy you the servers you need.

On a side note I keep seeing these ppl who say: "Oh you can get 6 mill in like 6 hours of play" Then why are we still beating this legacy server dead horse. How many times do you need to bleed us? The new servers have had 2.0 as long as we have. It's time they burn with the rest of us.

[Loony_BoB]

The great irony is that anyone wanting to make some gil on the markets is going to suffer from this, because everyone is suddenly going to hold onto their gil and at the same time huge amounts of gil is going to be removed from the game at the same time.

[Nalien]

Going back to what this thread was about last week; Well... It's obvious to see why they said absolutely nothing, but I still think they should have said something. Somewhere along the past nine months (actually, when was that 850k ballpark figure posted?) they changed their plans, and said nothing. Had they said something, a lot of this could have been avoided, instead they opted for nine months of silence. Hope they're not surprised at this out rage, this is exactly what happens when you don't communicate with your playerbase.

Whatever though, after Hunts and now this (and lots of other little things), I've lost all faith in this development team. Any good will they gained from turning 1.0 around is gone, and they're just another SE development team; it took them a year to go from super stars to no different than XIs developers. Hope they're proud.

A mistranslation from a siliconera article

The mistranslation was that it would be lower, they still gave 850k as a potential figure, even if "that sounds a bit low", or whatever Yoshida said. Why even give a figure like that? Why not just say "We cannot discuss pricing at this time" or, "We're still working on the pricing". Actually, that last one would have been a lie, since they didn't work on the pricing, at all, but still.

[Morningstar1337]

actually, when was that 850k ballpark figure posted?

A mistranslation from a siliconera article

[Niwashi]

The mistranslation was that it would be lower, they still gave 850k as a potential figure, even if "that sounds a bit low"

Well, I don't feel like looking it up, but the conversation was something along the lines of:
Q: "Well, I've got about 850k saved up so far. Would that be enough?"
A: "No, it wouldn't"
It wasn't ever really mentioned as being a potential figure. It's simply the only number that appeared in the conversation, so players latched onto it.

But the reason I don't feel like looking it up is that I couldn't care less about the price. It's irrelevant since there aren't going to be houses for anyone to buy anyway. Eight wards total, and only two new ones? When they clearly need several hundred? That's laughable, except I'm not laughing.

I had figured that even if they screwed up personal housing, we'd at least still have FC housing. I'm in what was originally a two-person FC, but turned into a de facto private FC when my partner quit playing. I figured that if they screwed up personal housing enough that I didn't want it, I could get an FC house once I hit FC rank 6. Now that's not going to be possible.

I'm guessing the two new wards will be filled in about 5 minutes, long before most of us can even download the update. Houses go to those from amongst the ultra-rich players who have the fastest download speeds. Even if I had the rank and gil for it, just the fact that downloading a patch takes me several hours would be enough to keep me out of the running to even be able to try to get one.

So basically, if you don't already have a house, you can forget about ever being able to get one. You've got probably less than a 1% chance of ever seeing an available plot to buy, either as an individual or an FC.