An Open Letter to Mr. Yoshida: Patch 2.38

[FJerome]

Putting FCs in direct competition with rich players for medium and large houses is just cruel. I don't know how you can justify letting one person have access to resources designed to be shared between 512 people.

I also don't understand why this got rolled out before being able to stable your chocobos in cities or garden in a personal chamber did, all it's doing is creating an even bigger gulf between rich and poor players & FCs.

[Sujaki_Nhakal]

I can only sign under that Letter too. I'm from Balmung too as you see. We are happ to say we have a small House for us, but i see also much FC's with Rank 6 or higher what don't have a House because the Wards are ALL sold out. Even the 6th Ward was full in less than 2 weeks of all three Areas.

Now with th fact you have to compete with Free Companies over the Plots for you own is just in the wrong direction.
As allready said there were over a year of development time where you can easly put a different Area only for Player Housing together and also as promissed with lower Prices than FC Housing. But that all will be shown as a total lie to all of the Players.
Many bring up now XI Mog Housing or Wild Star Housing. I bring another MMO up what started YESTERDAY in the western market with Hosuing what happend to work perferctly till now, and that even without beeing on a extra Server. That is called ArcheAge. And now guess what that MMO is Free 2 Play and offers a better Housing than XIV can do? I'm really upset with that what we get here as "Personal" Housing.

[Penance007]

I believe that they were trying out a different method of personal housing but the end result was that it failed, so they reverted to this option. Obviously due to the limit amount of wards and houses they had to increase the price, else the houses would be gone even quicker than they will be now.

Sadly enough they got everyones hopes up b y stating it would be cheaper, and something as personal housing would be for everyone. I personally wouldve preferred they would just not release anything at all instead of releasing something half-baked as this solution. Now some will get, some will not and it simply bad practice.

I would be lying if i was going to say i would quit but i honestly dont know how much more @"!l#&$ i can take.

[EthanParcival]

So SE,

You're basically implying that a casual player will probably never archive to get a "personal" house because:

1) Casual Players will have to choose between gil sink-holes having a shiny Novus/Nexus with your eternal materia infusing gil sink hole scheme, or choose the personal house.

2) The casual player will need to craft, and kill and ride the market like a pro (to make at least 2 million for a teeny tiny house which frankly feels smaller than a Private Chamber).

3) There are not enough plots to go around anyways, because you only added 2 more wards anyways, instanced again, and there was already plot shortage anyways for FCs.

I mean, couldn't you imagine something more creative? like just make them "floating houses" and attach them to one of them floating chunks of land like the floating city of nym? And ditch the whole ward thing and just give each player their own house already?

SE, I sometimes feel you just want people to quit playing the game...

[Melisma_Glissando]

So SE,
I mean, couldn't you imagine something more creative? like just make them "floating houses" and attach them to one of them floating chunks of land like the floating city of nym? And ditch the whole ward thing and just give each player their own house already?
.

This is literally what Wildstar did.

And is a superior housing system to boot.

[Cynthis]

If this really is an issue with server capacity/design and the development team keep using that as the excuse for many poor implementations then it's a disgrace that they haven't fired the entire team working on the servers and fixed it by now. To constantly blame this and not be able to fix it is a travesty.

[Kyouki]

I am so disappointed. Not only that we will now have FC's compete against single players... Ppl that have not played since the very first day back in 1.0 might not even have enough money. I was dreaming about getting my own little house cause i dont wanna pay 300k everytime a FC breaks or i decide to give another FC a try (and yes unfortenately there are enough FC's out there that just make you wanna run away)... With all these damn undercutters at the market board and the frustrating materia melds i will never reach my goal... Thank you for making me wait for nothing SE

[HEC-]

I agree with OP 100%!

While I like the possibility to have the 3 sizes of the houses and (most likely) having gardens and stables(?) which will envigorate the economy for a while I'm deeply dissapointed but not surprissed after learning the lesson with the FC Housing release earlier. The ARROGANCE with which Yoshi and whole SE team treated the players / customers then (first totally ignoring all the posts in the Forum and later on basically telling us to "sod off") removed any faith and trust in SE and Yoshi. Lies, hiding of truth and missleading - way to go!

It took my Free Company five months to rise to Rank 6 in order to be able to purchase land.

You can actually solo level FC from 1 to 6 in under 3 weeks

The fact of the matter is they couldn't reveal this info early or FC's would buy up all remaining plots to sell on the black market once this went live.

You know that each FC can own only one plot / house, right? While in theory you can "split" in smaller FCs and level them up to lvl 6 required to purchase the land it takes a while and you can't even create new FC up to 24 h from leaving previous one so short notice ahead of the patch will not allow anyone without "standby" FCs ready to do so ...

[Mjollnir]

Pride before integrity. Exactly the downfall of 1.0.

Agree with everything the OP has said, and most other comments here.

Yoshi-P, I am ashamed of you.

[Oghmanyte]

If this really is an issue with server capacity/design and the development team keep using that as the excuse for many poor implementations then it's a disgrace that they haven't fired the entire team working on the servers and fixed it by now. To constantly blame this and not be able to fix it is a travesty.

The problem is that Yoshida is afraid to pull the proverbial trigger on spending the money required for server upgrades. They keep running into these hardware roadblocks and refusing to do anything about them, even though they're causing such significant development/customer satisfaction problems.