New housing area in Ishgard will be very affordable?

[Adire]

If the only options are to pay real money, or to not have a house at all I'd prefer the first option. But as they've said time and time again it's not server space that's the issue, but how frequently they backup the data. If they go through with that and the housing isn't instanced, I'm going to have to believe they've been feeding us lies for the past while.

Thing is, that shouldn't be a solution. Certainly not as a tack on to a subscription fee.

Other games have housing available for free/as part of the base subscription fee, or have them as purchaseable with in game money and in decent supply.

Tossing housing into an increased sub fee and making a supply exception for people who shell out the cash would be a lazy and distasteful, albeit shamelessly profitable thing to do.

If I can pay a reasonable sum for a house in an F2P game with in game currency, I should be able to do that here. Even if that means making Ishgard housing instanced.

I for one would not pay real life money for this, as I do not wish to see this practice escalate.

[Cherie]

Ok so um, you guys weren't in a joking mood and my joke was lame. Sorry about that, I had best intentions but of course the road to hell is paved with those.
I wouldn't seriously say that housing was in the Brume... But if left it to the noble houses....Nobles are jerks so yea they'd put us there. But that is just my opinion. I know according to the story's finish that you might think otherwise. However, that was my opinion, take it or leave it. So of course, we don't leave it to the nobles, we approach the new leader of Ishgard to have something else built of course.

If did the story quests in western coerthas, do you recall the city there? It was covered in ice. It's just outside of Ishgard.

My best guess as to really where Ishgard's housing district is? perhaps we rebuild that area?

But yea of course that is only my guess. I wouldn't think people that want houses would want to live with stuffy nobles. I have no doubt that the dev team could think of some lore to make it so were could have a house there if people wished. I do recall the live letter saying that originally there were no plans but it depended on peoples interest (I'm paraphrasing here, perhaps someone would be so kind to link it if wished).

But yes if this thread was any indication. Yes, people are very interested.

[MageBlack]

Thing is, that shouldn't be a solution. Certainly not as a tack on to a subscription fee.

Other games have housing available for free/as part of the base subscription fee, or have them as purchaseable with in game money and in decent supply.

Tossing housing into an increased sub fee and making a supply exception for people who shell out the cash would be a lazy and distasteful, albeit shamelessly profitable thing to do.

If I can pay a reasonable sum for a house in an F2P game with in game currency, I should be able to do that here. Even if that means making Ishgard housing instanced.

I for one would not pay real life money for this, as I do not wish to see this practice escalate.

I wouldnt actually pay either, You were the one who came into a sarcastic thread with a serious face. lol.

[Kallera]

Imagine a bad ending for Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", and you have a good idea what the housing debacle was like.

But don't feel bad about it, op!

[Adire]

I wouldnt actually pay either, You were the one who came into a sarcastic thread with a serious face. lol.

I don't really see any obvious sarcasm here. Not from posters I've been responding to at least.

[dekal]

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Well I accepted your joke and I even agreed, and I added another limb ( 2arms or 2legs).

I would agree with you that the nobles did and still control the city, but in the end WoL has now followers and support from now just poor people, soldiers, middle rank military people, but from noble families, and even in coerthas. No only that now that they singed the treaty to unite all the kingdoms in eorzea, the nobles would need to think twice before throwing the WoL into the brumes ( political relationship is very important that is we follow some common sense, but then again SE had showed us that they always have a way to make the WoL be persecuted and become a fugitive)

[Velhart]

New housing area in Ishgard will be very affordable?

[Lemuel81]

Most likley the housing will be even more expensive than the ones we have now, personally im fine with it- maybe ill have a reason to try to make Gil.
It's easy to make as is and nothing worthwhile to spend it on. The important question is- will they have learned their lesson the first time around with the lack of housing available.

And I do not think they will again. I blame PS3 players for this- get rid of PS3 players and expand the game they are just holding us back (ready to be flamed) It is true tho....

[Alaina]

we've been told this before haven't we?

[Mindylou]

It will be very expensive as they see housing as a gil sink instead a fun or in any way engaging feature, it will not be plentiful enough to accommodate even half the player base that wants it.

The design overall will be as substandard as we have now.

I'm calling it now... meh