What happened to 800k personal housing?

[HEC-]

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.

I feel your pain!! I've felt exactly the same during the spectacular FAIL of the FC Housing launch when I've lost waste majority of my faith in Yoshi and SE. I've felt cheated and physically sick and depressed for months. This repeat of such major failure made me lost any tiny remains of it ... What I'm affraid even more of is the huge decline in the subs slowly leading to collapse of the game.

The entire system will make the rich richer and the poor poorer as all the houses get gobbled up by the major players and their alts. They'll make it all back through gardening, so why not buy a few plots now that the guild restrictions that prevented this very thing are gone?

Well - kinda ... unless they have up to 7 alts all leveled to 50 and having "maxed" the GC rank standing by to do so it would take them a couple of days per alt to be able to purchase additonal houses.

[Doki]

Yeah this is a HUGE disappointment. It's the same cost as FC house, which most individuals have no chance at.

[Kydi]

Pricing the same as a FC house makes sense to me if I'm honest. If I buy a house in the real world it's the same price irrespective of whether I buy alone of with friends, so it makes sense to me at least that the same would apply in game.

Reading the latest live letter they are working on something to increase supply which is currently being tested. I'd expect land prices to plummet faster than Twin once they get that sorted.

[raelee]

Pricing the same as a FC house makes sense to me if I'm honest. If I buy a house in the real world it's the same price irrespective of whether I buy alone of with friends, so it makes sense to me at least that the same would apply in game.

Reading the latest live letter they are working on something to increase supply which is currently being tested. I'd expect land prices to plummet faster than Twin once they get that sorted.

I think what most people assumed this would be was smaller houses (still with some variation in size) in a completely separate district.

Also, you wouldn't pay the same for a 1-2 bedroom house as you would a 5 bedroom house. FC housing is meant for multiple people. Personal housing is not. When you've got a whole group behind you (generally) putting money into the pot, it's a whole lot easier to afford a house, but these prices for single players is pretty crappy :/

[Orbiaus]

We need mortgages lol.

[Staris]

i hope to buy 2 larges next to each other and laugh at all the poor people running around looking for smalls.

[Kydi]

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Oh I completely agree that it certainly isn't what was expected, but based on what we've got, I can understand their logic when pricing (not necessarily condone it but that's another matter). Ultimately this patch has just opened FC housing to individuals to buy somewhere of the same size. Until the prices become reasonable (eg more land is released and perhaps more variations in plot size) we'll have to live with private rooms or get rich.

Edit: mortgages would be a cunning way to keep people playing and take money out of the economy. Players have to give x to SE every month or they lose their house and all their stuff.

[Iroahni]

The entire system will make the rich richer and the poor poorer as all the houses get gobbled up by the major players and their alts. They'll make it all back through gardening, so why not buy a few plots now that the guild restrictions that prevented this very thing are gone?

[Shika]

I must be missing the point somewhere as I keep seeing people saying that the personal house is the same cost as a FC house? On my server anyway when they introduced FC housing a small FC house was 25 million, and the small personal house introduced in today's patch is 5million gil. Don't get me wrong, I'm not very impressed at the high prices, which do not match I think 95% of the player base's expectations. But then whenever have we got anything good that we expected? lol

[Cylla]

Yep i have 3.2mil and even that is not enough for the smallest plot of land on my server...looks like the gil buyers and mega rich legacy players are the winners this time.

I'm in the same boat with ya. 3.3 mil here and can't even afford a small plot. I'm really disappointed. They should've never gone around saying that housing was going to be affordable and starting at 850k. Personal housing was the only thing I was looking forward to. Just really really disappointed.