Allot of people seemed to of missed this:

[Darki]

To be honest, that isn't the point at all. Why should we be paying stupid amounts of gil for PERSONAL housing?

This is just my opinion and not everyone will agree with me but I like having a tall mountain to climb. A personal house is a very desirable goal for me and as many others have stated, for them to
I think it will make actually getting the house that much more sweet.

[Beetle]

They designed this all wrong. Each player should of got its own House zone. Like a Inn room. In fact personal housing zones should of been new small zones. Inside & Outside sharing the same zone space. They did the most costly way to keep up servers for these huge housing zones and limit the freedom of any player getting their house.
They did actually did a really lazy way in creating content in this game. Copy & Paste Free Company houses.

Keep the small housing zones im talking about run on the client side. Not fully on the server.
This lets you basically have alot of personal housing zones and less hassle with server stress.

[SeekerScorpio]

This is just my opinion and not everyone will agree with me but I like having a tall mountain to climb. A personal house is a very desirable goal for me and as many others have stated, for them to
I think it will make actually getting the house that much more sweet.

Hmm maybe for you and a small others into that masochistic mentality, but for a good chunk see sig.

[Titor]

Hmm maybe for you and a small others into that masochistic mentality, but for a good chunk see sig.

I like your sig.
I think we should start a thing.
Similar to the "Put this in your signature if you x" fad that went around in the 90s.

Let us bring it back.

"Put this in your sig if you think housing should be available to all" + That quote

Shall we?

[Mihana]

Hmm. I see your point. The devs talked about an "automatic vacating" function that put houses back on the market after being untouched for a while but then scraped the idea. Maybe they should give it a 2nd look?

No, just... No.

Imagine this:

You spend a lot of gil buying a plot of land, a home. You're happy. Suddenly, god forbid, something serious happens in your life and you have to take time away from the game. You lose your job. A family member dies. You need to move. Whatever the case. Now how fair is it that because of reasons beyond your control you cannot afford to play for an extended period of time that you now lose that home? Although I'm against it for FC housing it make more sense in that kind of scenario because usually a FC is made up of more than two people. If everyone cannot afford to take just a moment to visit their FC home it makes a little more sense that they lose it in this case. I want to stress again, I'm against this idea but it's something I can understand. Applying that to personal housing just invites a world of aggravation.

The bottom line is this, FC housing and personal housing should be two SEPARATE entities and not classified as the same thing.

While I cannot speak for every player I have a strong suspicion a lot will agree that personal housing should be treated separate, perhaps as I even mentioned in another thread, instanced over being shoved into the same wards as FC ones. I'd rather wait a few more months and get something better than be shoved into a every-person-for-themselves-free-for-all to try and snag up that choice plot of land or risk losing the chance for the next several months whenever they feel it's appropriate to add in another few wards to fight over.

[SeekerScorpio]

I like your sig.
I think we should start a thing.
Similar to the "Put this in your signature if you x" fad that went around in the 90s.

Let us bring it back.

"Put this in your sig if you think housing should be available to all" + That quote

Shall we?

Yeah for more flavoring ima bold the most crucial part.... now!

[Darki]

Hmm maybe for you and a small others into that masochistic mentality, but for a good chunk see sig.

I admit that I had to look up that word :P

As for the quote, if I log in and click an empty land plot and find a price tag that is no different then the cost of a land plot for an FC, then I will call shenanigans on Yoshi-P right along with you. Right now though I want to wait to be able to login and see what is what.

[SeekerScorpio]

I admit that I had to look up that word :P

As for the quote, if I log in and click an empty land plot and find a price tag that is no different then the cost of a land plot for an FC, then I will call shenanigans on Yoshi-P right along with you. Right now though I want to wait to be able to login and see what is what.

Fair enough. I'll be doing the same, but I'm not as optimistic.

[Welsper59]

This is just my opinion and not everyone will agree with me but I like having a tall mountain to climb. A personal house is a very desirable goal for me and as many others have stated, for them to
I think it will make actually getting the house that much more sweet.

100% agreed. I don't look at the current state of things as some sort of offensive personal attack, but I do still feel that what transpired was misleading. When people are already on-edge with disappointment from other things in the game, such as the mess that was (and still is) The Hunt, you don't want to further disappoint them by going back on previous statements that gave the consumer a sense of security.

The belief was widely known that Yoshi-P was going to ensure that personal housing was accessible under a cheaper guise than FC housing. To see that it was not the case is almost like a betrayal of trust to the consumer. It's not unusual that this makes Yoshi-P seem not much different than a shady car salesman to some people lol. When you provide the consumer information to ease their pains, you don't go back on it without prior notification in a timely manner. That's just how business works if you're trying to establish trust with the consumer. The consumer if very fickle when it comes to that, and disappointments will always linger and eventually reach a point of no return.

Personally, the Gold Saucer was/is the ray of hope I have for this game to keep me a long-time subscriber. I like the game, but it's not much different than most things. With the way other content went, like The Hunt and the lack of updates regarding their shift in pricing for personal housing, I'm doubting the Gold Saucer to be content that's actually worth the wait. And mind you, I was REALLY looking forward to The Hunt due to how he stated it's for low-man grouping. No such thing though in the end. Major disappointment for that one for me.

[Darki]

No, just... No.

Imagine this:

You spend a lot of gil buying a plot of land, a home. You're happy. Suddenly, god forbid, something serious happens in your life and you have to take time away from the game. You lose your job. A family member dies. You need to move. Whatever the case. Now how fair is it that because of reasons beyond your control you cannot afford to play for an extended period of time that you now lose that home? Although I'm against it for FC housing it make more sense in that kind of scenario because usually a FC is made up of more than two people. If everyone cannot afford to take just a moment to visit their FC home it makes a little more sense that they lose it in this case. I want to stress again, I'm against this idea but it's something I can understand. Applying that to personal housing just invites a world of aggravation.

Oh I thought of that. In fact the way my life is, something like that would very likely happen to me. When this idea was being floated by the devs, they were suggesting a time limit of 35 days!That is waaaaaay too short for something like this. If this idea is ever floated again (and it may never be brought up by them again) they would need to be very generous with the time limit for subscribers not to riot.