WHAT?! 625 Million for first class House?

[Tadacho]

Does not having a FC House hamper you in any shape, way or form during game play? No

It's a luxury item. it's NOT needed

Here are some things we know are coming to FC housing:

- direct market acccess
- aetheryte
- additional storage facilities
- fc retainer
- unspecified bonuses provided by "towers"
- (large houses) - basements with freaking groyp synthesis to build airships and participate in content ONLY ACCESSIBLE BY BUILDING AN AIRSHIP IN YOUR LARGE HOUSE

[Doctorgalactic]

I think one of the biggest mis-leading concepts here is that we were all under the assumption that Housing would be AVAILABLE as of 2.1, not some long term endgame goal to be achieved. I've got a Role-Playing Free Company of about 130 people on Gilgamesh, and I'm proud of our ability to raise 10 million gil since launch. The argument now seems to have changed to whether or not housing is a luxury or not. If we want to use the real world as a parallel, housing is NOT a luxury. NICE houses are, certainly, but everyone needs a roof over their head. Now let's remove the real-world parallel. Housing will be immediately available for those Companies that reach the new appropriate rank and throw out some insurmountable slush fund into the gil sink that SE has created while the 99.9% rest of us scramble to the broken marketing economy to hock our wares at deflated prices due to botters and RMT. SE drew a line in the sand, and they're the only ones on the other side of it.

[Kallera]

And beyond that, even if it is a "luxury" item, it's one that's been hyped pretty much since launch as a Really Big Thing for ALL the players to look forward to, and a huge selling point for this patch. To then have them turn around and slap us in the face saying "HA hah! Just kidding players, it's only for a very very few of you... oh, and you guys who decided to start new on a legacy server to play with friends or even get a fresh start... double screw you!".... no wonder people are angry and disappointed.

don't forget, come 2.2, you'd better be playing in your multimillion gil dollhouse, or else SE will come take all your hard work away!

"* From patch 2.2 onward, a free company will automatically relinquish its land if its estate is unused for a prolonged period of time."

Because that's totally fair for such a huge investment, right? /sarcasm

[Linadae]

So...yeah can our free company purchase a box to live in? I don't think we can afford a HQ one so a normal one will have to do and can we purchase that square of land next to the port-a-potty? I think that's all 1million will get us on Balmung.

[Icarian]

Here are some things we know are coming to FC housing:

- direct market acccess
- aetheryte
- additional storage facilities
- fc retainer
- unspecified bonuses provided by "towers"
- (large houses) - basements with freaking groyp synthesis to build airships and participate in content ONLY ACCESSIBLE BY BUILDING AN AIRSHIP IN YOUR LARGE HOUSE

How is that NOT a luxury? You can access market boards, aetheryte, your retainer, your FC bank and airship in ANY city

FC retainer so you can sell FC loot (which right now amounts to... nothing, because you can't sell BCoB drops), extra FC storage which in turn means that if you need it you most likely have a lot of members and thus, you'll be able to buy at least a small house.

unspecified bonuses that will come who knows when and will do who knows what and will most likely be a luxury and not a necessity like everything else.

Again, how is a FC House not a luxury thing? You guys cannot differentiate between luxury and necessity.

Not having a house doesn't make you unable to craft, use airships, the market board or whatever, having a house just makes it easier because it's all in the same place. That's it, and you still say this is not a luxury? I don't even.

[Reslin]

How is that NOT a luxury? You can access market boards, aetheryte, your retainer, your FC bank and airship in ANY city

FC retainer so you can sell FC loot (which right now amounts to... nothing, because you can't sell BCoB drops), extra FC storage which in turn means that if you need it you most likely have a lot of members and thus, you'll be able to buy at least a small house.

unspecified bonuses that will come who knows when and will do who knows what and will most likely be a luxury and not a necessity like everything else

Sorry. Casual friendly means features that the game hypes up will be obtainable by casuals. This is not the case.

[Tadacho]

How is that NOT a luxury? You can access market boards, aetheryte, your retainer, your FC bank and airship in ANY city

Um no. You build an airship in your FC house as a group, which grants you access to content that can only be accessed by using this airship (not any airship in any city). Content is not a luxury, it's something I pay a monthly sub for.

[Nica]

Um no. You build an airship in your FC house as a group, which grants you access to content that can only be accessed by using this airship (not any airship in any city). Content is not a luxury, it's something I pay a monthly sub for.

In Icarian's world, your sub is only good enough for the privilege of gazing upon the greatness that is housing price board, now get back in your cardboard box you peasant!

[Victor]

I've already put aside my riches (a modest 300 million gil) for next week's housing.

[CygnusMajor]

These prices for legacy servers are a slap in the face to every legitmate player who didn't exploit Atomos potion NPC'ing or spam guildleves before the gil reward was nerfed in early 1.0. And what of the new players who started here because their friends were already playing? The amount of gil that SE is seeing on these servers is concentrated in the hands of the absolute smallest minority and is not an accurate depiction of the average holdings of each player. I guess if you aren't a botter/exploiter/gilbuyer you are priced out of anything but a small house. Thanks Square, much appreciated.