Stop Advertising Housing as a Feature

[Eraden]

Housing was originally up to 625,000,000 for a large depending on your server and the grade. So it's been reduced a lot.

Whoa, that's INSANE! Was there a lot of excess Gil back in those days, Shibi?

[TwistedTea]

Whoa, that's INSANE! Was there a lot of excess Gil back in those days, Shibi?

It wasn't so much about excess gil back then. But housing was initially designed as FC only. Housing was something entire FCs were supposed to grind out for.

SE had also stated that personal houses would be separate from FC houses.

However, SE did not deliver and mixed personal/FC houses.

We all know how that turned out.

Lowering the price of something highly in-demand while the gil faucets have grown significantly without any actual significant gil sinks

[Jojoya]

Whoa, that's INSANE! Was there a lot of excess Gil back in those days, Shibi?

There was a crazy amount of excess gil back then on the legacy servers (less so on the newer servers that were added when ARR was released). Players who had kept playing throughout the 1.x cycle ended up insanely rich.

Prices on some of the newer worlds weren't quite so bad though still more than we pay now. 4-5 million for a small, 15-18.75 million for a medium, 50-62.5 million for a large. Here are the patch notes that spelled out house prices by world:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...7af43f3c43828a