Quote Originally Posted by reality_check View Post
There is no "expectation" for an individual player to buy a house. You can beat every single encounter in the game without having a house, easily. In fact, having a house does not affect your ability to perform duties in any shape whatsoever.
You misunderstood what I meant. I fully believe SE didn't expect anyone to be interested in housing at all. What I meant with my comment was the content was priced with the thought in mind that several people were working together as a group (fc) to attain the achievement. Now, for some arbitrary reason (some terrible math), SE has an expectation that this is now an achievement within the reach of the average player.

But they didn't change FC version of the pricing accordingly. So which is it? 80m (And I am citing this number because these are all that is left on Balmung) split between several people? Or 80m is commonplace on the average, Non-crafting, PvE player? I don't think the numbers *truly* support his logic. Either that, or he's stuck in pre-abyssea FFXI where 60 people would work years on one guy's relic and he thought that was good design.