Quote Originally Posted by Kio View Post
Not to deter from the current conversation, but the price of personal housing/housing in general for me is extremely worrisome. I don't want to see guild HQ or personal houses be something extremely exclusionary as it sounds it is intended to be. Everyone should have access to an average quarters (my preference would have been instanced) and have room to expand upon it if you do in fact have the extra income.

I fear the cost and limited real estate will drive up demand for RMT purchasing, drama over grand company HR issues, hoarding over resources etc... I just don't see why it isn't something that is already a right to every player regardless of status or funds.
I do believe that they have stated that the FC housing would be sufficiently expensive that it'd take the income of various players to acquire one. I like that, you're actually buying a hugeass mansion wherein various people will live on, makes sense.
Also if memory serves me well in the previous live letter Yoshida mentioned that houses will be within instances (unlike say UO's houses), although each instance will have various houses within in so there is a type of neighborhood. Once that particular instance is full, a new, empty one is spawned for future houses.