Quote Originally Posted by Yshtola View Post
I didn't imply you wanted to get rid of the wards, I was giving context... Context as to why putting out more plots is not a solution or how the "lack" of plots is even the reason why we're in this situation. You did indirectly talk about removing a gil sink by introducing something similar to an apt :3. 300k isnt much but its better than 300k that is still in circulation. If teleportation has a cost, I don't see why anything could justify handing out freebies to players, especially when everything related to housing has a cost. There's plenty of items that are not obtainable for everyone in this game and that's the way it should be.

I'll just point out that Wildstar doesn't exist anymore. Surely that game did a few things wrong in order to not be financially stable. You know, some decisions just come back to haunt you sometimes...

Issue with wildstar wasn't its housing, I followed its demise and that was one of the things keeping people around. If anything it delayed its death lol. That said there are other near as powerful systems in other mmos that are still doing well, so I dont put much mind that wildstar is dead. I just say wildstar because imo it was the best I've seen.


Sure 300k, but we could build back in that cost in progression of the house. Like I said getting people's toes into the system with progressive investments will encourage them to part with their cash and especially if they are not afraid it'll demolish up later lol.


For example free room (one room) at level 15-25. 5k gets you a teleport beacon. 15k gets you a mog mail, 20k retainer, balcony for 30k, etc, we can easily build in the sink and people can feel comfortable to invest (splitting them into low prices will help players progress and enjoy sooner than dropping larger amounts at once, especially if they know the content will grow and maintain value over patches). As you go of course costs increase, so buying the whole chocobo ranch extension (like FF7) would cost a pretty farthing (we can add costs beyond gil, like actual quest content).


I suppose I could write out a parallel system and develope a basic timeline of content and sinks just for giggles lol.