Why are houses so expensive :(

[Noxifer]

It's like saying you can't afford a house IRL just because you lost interest in going to work and get your monthly salary.

I respectfully disagree with that comparison. =) Admittedly it's become a little better now that they (mostly) lowered the initial housing prices. but... It's more like all houses IRL are sold by the real estate agency (not by the previous house owner), and said agency sets the price based on the "average income" in your country. Due to some people having extremely high incomes, that average ends up being a lot higher than what 50% of the population earns. This means that for those people ending up below the "average", in particular those at or close to minimum wage, houses are way too expensive.

Yes you can totally rant all you want, you have the rights to do so. But doing it in a public forum would definitely result in backlashes, which you should have had in mind before posting.

Would a thread with the focus being on "help me find better ways to earn gil" have gotten a more positive response? Probably (you never know with these forums ^_~). But it's also very easy to figure that out when you're not upset and/or frustrated that what you want is out of reach.

Hate to burst your bubble, but as others have said houses aren't expensive at all.

At least not the small ones, this is honestly why availability is such a big problem, they're too cheap.

Again, I'd like to disagree ^^; Availability is a problem not because of the pricing. Availability is a problem because they decided to add players to the FC housing system (after saying it would be a separate system), meaning that on a large-population world they'd have to add over a thousand* wards in each city state to even begin to cover the population. But even before that, they added too few houses for the number of active FCs.

It reminds me a little bit about the situation where I live, but with rented apartments. There are way too few apartments, and since I live in a "University City" (i.e. a large number of students) it's usually not an option to buy a house or a flat. They've started building more the past few years, about five years later than they should have, and the pricing on the 'new' apartments (and on all apartments in general, since rent goes up faster than salaries/wages) is ridiculous. But they can set those rents because of the high demand. Would the availability become better if they raised the rents even more? Or would the availability become better if they built more apartment buildings?

Of course, our characters don't really suffer as such by not having a house, not like the IRL situation above. But certain content (chocobo dyeing, cross-breeding plants, FC airships) is locked to people with a house, so it's a disadvantage when not even all active FCs can get one. Let's hope it gets better once apartments are released, especially if a number of players decide to get rid of their personal houses in favor of an apartment. =)


*) Number grabbed from the air since I don't know how many players/characters make up a 'large-population world'. Just read it as 'way more than there are today' ^_~