Hey Yoshi, you said personal housing "will be far more affordable."

[Teryaani]

I don't really think its up to us, SE gave him that position...it is up to him or them to remove him, if ever.

Personally, the fact SE made the same mistake twice, and now has lied more then once...is enough to make us unsub. That is all people can do really, money talks louder then this forum apparently. :P He does however, need to greatly change the direction of the game. I am guessing they will see a signifigant drop in subs and then realize (Like 1.0 all over again) oh hay, ppl aren't playing..we better start to actually listen. lol.

I'm not suggesting he resign (he shouldn't - this is a learning moment for SE). I'm suggesting that he get out there and serve people Landslide Burgers for a week. We all like fan service. amirite?!

[Warkupo]

This thread and its' focus on "wot the japanese think" has been the most hilariously racist things I have read in recent memory. As though the Japanese players are hanging out in their dojo demanding sepekku so Yoshi-P can reclaim his honour, or that the streets of Tokyo are flooded with angry japanese rioters demanding his resignation. Reality is that they're just a handful of angry people on a forum, just like you are a handful of angry people on a forum. They're not magical. They're not this vastly different category of human.

The development team knew this was going to be an unpopular feature, or they wouldn't have waited until just before the highly anticipated 2.4 to launch it. By the time October rolls around and you're waiting in a dungeon queue as a sweet ninja you'll have forgotten all about personal housing.

[RedAntares]

Another interesting thought that comes to mind is what you guys plan on doing with the Gold Saucer... Can't wait to see how much it's going to cost to even play the basketball game, or whatever. We'll complain about the 200k prices we have to pay per game and you'll probably tell us that its in line with the money that currently exists in game...I guess what I'm getting at is ......I'm sure you'll find some way to screw that up too.

I've been fearing this since the release of the AF color feauture, considering how they have been doing stuff lately I think they will add some absurd requirement in order to enter the Golden Saucer, like a 300k lifetime ticket in order to enter and each game attempt will cost 5k or something like that while giving you another type of currency when you win so we can trade for unique stuff that will take months of grinding to get.

[Velox]

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Shhh, these are the FFXIV forums, logic and reason are NOT allowed. Go take your filth to another part of the interwebs!.

All joking aside of course, from what I've been reading the past few pages really shows people are really out of touch with the rest of the world. You'd think we were living in the dark ages still, where heretics were burned at the stake. XD

[Shougun]

. . .They're not magical. They're not this vastly different category of human. . .

Careful, you may summon the slumbering weeabo kraken XD

Also anyone notice the tag SongJoohee put up "最後の敵はバハムートではない、開発だ". lol (tags at the bottom)


I expected this to happen since YoshiP is a very economical developer/producer, personally I don't expect much in the short term but I hope in a long term result that they will examine other systems. The amount of wards necessary to make demand not an issue is a bit crazy, instances will be better (demand issue not an issue, more design customization possible), that or we should just "deal" with the idea that some people will not get a house even when they have enough money which I think is the worse idea of the two (instance + superior customization + no neighborhood vs neighborhood and limited supply and customization).

[camper]

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The average amount of gil in possession is much greater than you all imagine, and we are concerned that if we were to lower the cost of land for personal housing any further it would exacerbate problems like RMT and the purchase of land by secondary characters. ...

Anyone else not understand this logic? If you charge two hundred gil for a house, who is going to bother with a RMT? Compare that to if you charge two million gil for the same house? I've never used a RMT before, but I'd imagine those who do want something that they can't afford to buy from in-game means. What am I missing? Does the RMT problem that he is referencing mean that SE is losing out on valuable RMT subscriptions?

I'm not sure what he means by secondary characters. Could someone explain that for me?

[Icefall]

I'm not sure what he means by secondary characters. Could someone explain that for me?

Some people have been making new FCs on alt characters for the sake of buying up whole blocks in a ward. With individual housing this would be even easier since SE didn't limit housing to one per account.

[Belisaire]

It's not even about the RMT. It's that the development team (including Yoshi-P) seems to thinking that botting and using third party applications are fine so long as you don't get caught. Source, 3rd question asked by GE: http://gamerescape.com/2014/02/12/ps...naoki-yoshida/

This is an open admission of "Just don't talk about your third party expectations, but exploit away". With a policy like this, how can you possibly use gil as a measurement to base the ability to access certain kinds of content? It overwhelmingly favors players who will cheat, and ensures that players who don't will never be behind.

If it is too difficult for you to fight the gilsellers and the third-party offenders, the solution is simple: you have to make it open to everyone to experience. Saying that you can't control the RMT and the third party program users is no excuse.

[Belisaire]

In 1.0, you used to put out these wonderful surveys that collected user feedback, which is largely what contributed to A Realm Reborn becoming as successful as it has been ( and even helped 1.0 become a game that people enjoyed by the time we hit 1.23b). You have gotten cocky again. You need to go back to regular surveys of your community. For example, why can't we have a special 'home' instance? If your servers really cannot deal with creating a neighborhood of houses, make a private instance, ala the FC personal room. There's no reason we can't have our own private plot that is separate from the neighborhood. FFXI does this now with Mog Gardens, a wide area that is instanced for the user.

Neighborhoods would be preferable of course, but if you can't give us personal housing neighborhoods, why not an instanced one just for ourselves? You seem to be prioritizing this neighborhood feature, but maybe people don't really care about that. Maybe they just want the house.

[camper]

Some people have been making new FCs on alt characters for the sake of buying up whole blocks in a ward. With individual housing this would be even easier since SE didn't limit housing to one per account.

Do alts get all the benefits of the personal housing purchased on the main character?