What happened to 800k personal housing?

[Welsper59]

I'm generally not one to question too much of why things are done the way they are with this game, but the pricing is honestly a subject that should be addressed. I mean, yeah, servers generally have better economical progress to options that would earn people gil (compared to how it was maybe 6 months ago), but you don't completely negate statements that were said without a heads-up... when those old statements were intended to be a heads-up. You don't say that the prices are going to be cheaper than FC housing, stick with that concept, then do a 180 and decide it'll be exactly the same. Likewise, was it ever stated that personal housing was going to be allowing for M and L houses? I coulda swore I read somewhere that it was going to be the same as S size (implying no other options).

Mind you, I don't really care about the pricing (as I'm well off as is, and can wait for the L to drop some in price before I buy one), but I don't respect the secrecy behind going back on a statement that everyone was banking on. The 850k thing is completely irrelevant, and exact figures like that are nearly always going to change. Besides that, the 850k was never a set minimum or anything. It was just a number that was thrown out to him, which was responded with an implication that you're gonna need a lot more than that.

[VahnValbosce]

Just posting this here to say that, do you realize what the impact on the economy would be if every single person could own their own garden?

No thanks.

[Niqote]

Just posting this here to say that, do you realize what the impact on the economy would be if every single person could own their own garden?

No thanks.

I don't really see whats wrong with this when every ingredient from our garden is linked to vanity or raising the level of our Chocobo.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the profitability of Gardening items atm... but I just don't think it will always be this way.

[Welsper59]

Just posting this here to say that, do you realize what the impact on the economy would be if every single person could own their own garden?

No thanks.

I think you underestimate the laziness that your peers have. If people are willing to pay 20k for a low lvl HQ armor, 5-10k for an HQ silver ingot, etc... I'd say that's a sign that the impact of dropped prices is going to be severely temporary. After a month (which would only be around 5-10 full harvests per player), those prices will shoot back up. If anything, the only increased impact will be on the soils and seeds. But again, after that month, it'll stabilize itself again.

[Zanhe]

In the words of my statics main tank.

"Nope, nope, nope, nope, do not want, do not want, oh my god, please no" - Siykin

[echoica]

Everyone wants handouts. You want a house, earn it. Me and my boyfriend started our own fc ranked it up on our own (no other members) with 2 alts to buy a house. At first we saved for a small (4.5 million). Then a medium (25 million). We did NOT use rmt or sell carries, we worked damn hard playing the market/crafting to get it legit. All the people complaining that all they want is their dream house could have done the same thing we did. Work for it. You now are afforded an option to buy without grinding up a fc first, something not available previously. It is a good change. And if it was that important to you, then you should have saved and worked harder for more gil not knowing how much it would cost. I mean, really, did you honestly think it was gonna be cheap? Yes, it would have been nice if it was a new special feature different from fc housing but clearly as a business that was not an option.

[cryptic_angel]

Do players even know how easy it is to make 2 mil?

It's like eveyone just wants everything handed to them.

Look forward to 3.0 when your toon's rich auntie dies and you inherit a mansion fully furnished with 10 gardening plots!

[Alx789]

I think that without "fc rank 6" filter, number of wards added should be dozens and dozens times more than it happened now. For me, leveling fc to rank6 was more difficult than obtaining necessary amount of gil to buy la d and house. Even low level crafter can get 3-4-5 mil gil for a month or less.

Another bad thing i see - when land plots are limited resource, they become a food of resellers. I think that more massive addings of wards can make this kind of buisness nonprofitable. Maybe it should be better to stop land price drops - i see that free plots ends very before next expansion.

[gti443]

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

I dunno, I'm probably in the minority here but I would say anything that either deters people from moving to or encourages them to move away from overpopulated servers is a good thing in the grand scheme.

[Shyluv]

It has nothing to do with wanting things handed with little effort. The issue is that they said it would be cheaper than fc housing.

If they had said, from the start, that personal housing would cost as much as fc housing, there would be some groaning still, because one of the reasons they said fc housing would cost so much is because they wanted fc members to come together to get it. That's all well and fine. 5 people in my fc did work really hard to buy a small house.

So yes. There still would have been groaning and some rage. But most likely a lot less.

It isn't that people don't want to work for it. It's that we've been mislead, at least a couple times now.