I challenge you think hard about your housing qualms with SE

[TrystWildkey]

"We've released the Second Coil of Bahamut. However, due to server stress, there are only 160 instances available. Once those instances have been used, you'll have to wait until next patch to try. Oh, and we're still releasing a limited number of instances on the next patch, but hope to eventually release more. So, Second Coil of Bahamut is released, we know not everyone will be able to play it initially, but please look forward to it"

Now, OP, would you still defend a situation like that? If not, why? And how would that be any different than the current housing travesty??

[Eye_Gore]

Apparently you didn't spend gil either. Not everyone conserves money like you, and therefore most people on average have less than one mil. :P
Some of us actually work hard on materia melds, crafting, and now lately buying food for chocos or investing in gardening. There's always SOMETHING I need to buy at some point based on how I play and what I'm leveling. Chances are you don't do any of those things so you're rich as all get out. A lot of us choose a more pricey-path to enjoy the rest of the game's content.

Judging by that persons profile, they have put some serious time (probably way more than us little people) into the game, by the equipment they have and all classes at 50, I would think anyone with that amount of time in the game probably earned 5 million at some point also.

Oh and one hideous looking outfit to boot.

[Titor]

"We've released the Second Coil of Bahamut. However, due to server stress, there are only 160 instances available. Once those instances have been used, you'll have to wait until next patch to try. Oh, and we're still releasing a limited number of instances on the next patch, but hope to eventually release more. So, Second Coil of Bahamut is released, we know not everyone will be able to play it initially, but please look forward to it"

Now, OP, would you still defend a situation like that? If not, why? And how would that be any different than the current housing travesty??

"But getting gear is just fluff content that is a status symbol and/or looks pretty. I mean come on guys, if you cleared it with i100 you really do not need i110 for any reason other than show"

[scarebearz]

"We've released the Second Coil of Bahamut. However, due to server stress, there are only 160 instances available. Once those instances have been used, you'll have to wait until next patch to try. Oh, and we're still releasing a limited number of instances on the next patch, but hope to eventually release more. So, Second Coil of Bahamut is released, we know not everyone will be able to play it initially, but please look forward to it"

Now, OP, would you still defend a situation like that?

Of course he would!

"Hopefully they will fix it in time, it's not a big issue, I don't see why people are upset!"

"Think hard about your Coil qualms...

1. .....
2. .....
3. ....."

[reality_check]

Now, OP, would you still defend a situation like that? If not, why? And how would that be any different than the current housing travesty??

We've already had a situation like this before.

The choice is yours. Play the game or not.

[reality_check]

"Hopefully they will fix it in time, it's not a big issue, I don't see why people are upset!"
"

This already happened. They fixed it within 3 weeks and the game kept on moving forward after it.

[Riepah]

This already happened. They fixed it within 3 weeks and the game kept on moving forward after it.

If they fix the "Personal Housing" disaster within 3 weeks as well, I'm sure pretty much everyone will forgive them.

[reality_check]

If they fix the "Personal Housing" disaster within 3 weeks as well, I'm sure pretty much everyone will forgive them.

It depends. People want things to be fixed that aren't broken.

Housing supply needs fixing.

Pricing does not. Yoshida has released a few statements in agreement with this.

[Ilitsa]

It depends. People want things to be fixed that aren't broken.

Housing supply needs fixing.

Pricing does not. Yoshida has released a few statements in agreement with this.

that's all people are really asking for, the situation to be fixed. There are FCs on my server that have wanted a house since 2.1 hit, and haven't been able to because the land is bought up almost instantly, on Balmung I logged in 10(TEN) minutes after the patch and all the small plots both new wards of Lavender beds (where I wanted my house) were taken already. I was fortunate enough to have enough(and be willing to spend it) on the ideal house I wanted, that doesn't make the system right, or good though. The pricing is perfectly fine, the houses themselves should have been a separate set of wards though imo.


That being said, I think a LARGE part of the frustration comes from the lack of information, people were going by what was said in december (the quote that is in my signature), and the community reps, nor yoshi-p did anything at all to give the proper information ahead of time, couple with Yoshi-P's statement regarding the issue pre-planned (He posted that 3(three) minutes after the NA patchnotes went live, you can't tell me he didn't have that message pre-planned.) It was a message that SHOULD have been posted a month or two ago, to be honest, I doubt anyone would have been as angry if they hadn't had it just dropped on them like it is.

On a side note, I'm very curious to see how they handle doubling the land (since he says they're doubling the LAND in each ward, not doubling each ward from what I remember reading) will play out.

[KaiKatzchen]

It depends. People want things to be fixed that aren't broken.

Housing supply needs fixing.

Pricing does not. Yoshida has released a few statements in agreement with this.

Of course he agrees that pricing is not the issue:

So today I attended TGS 2014 (me legs are killing me...) and I had the opportunity to personally talk to Yoshida.

Me - 'I also looked forward to Personal Housing, but did not end up buying a house DUE TO IT BEING A LIL TO EXP' <-(I did slightly emphasize this, though in reality I do have enough).

'We have come to the decision which is 2.38 in housing, by thoroughly checking the market and gil retained by players. We know how much each player has. Though it is expensive, I think housing should be an achievement where players work hard to earn the gil, it should take some effort to buy a house.

Players who laze around should make some effort to make gil.

Everything in this game makes you gil: Dungeons, Daily Roulette's, Fates, Leves, Quest's, Missions etc...

Money is NOT the issue and obviously he's missing this fact too, because he thinks everything can be solved by players being less lazy and making more gil.