WHAT?! 625 Million for first class House?

[Beskar]

After going coming back from being out shopping, sitting down to have a nice coffee to read how much the Free Company housing was, I almost spat it back out. The prices are insane and for free companies that have been saving since release, they wont even be able to afford the smallest plot available. These new dailies better award a heck of a lot of money..

[Laf]

[Aliaga]

poor people, poor people everywhere.
buy a small or medium house already, put down that consumist jealousy.

[alien52]

Sorry but I must say a lot of people failed math including SE. 14% can not be use simply as the percentage form. Rules says we must convert that % sign to a decimal in order to use it with other similar numbers. Hence you get .14 and not .14%.

Then you can either do basic math or a more complicated step to solve. Either find what 625,000,000 is .14 and subtract or the other method.

Even with math done correctly SE failed display correct percentage for half. SE simply rounded up of 3.6m which that 400k makes a world of a difference in the current game economy.

[Alkimi]

Well the prices are ridiculous. I'm sure they'll come down a lot soon enough when they notice that NOBODY is buying them.

[Ashgarth]

How about doing leves? Give you 500/each and it's FUN!

I'm starting right now, it should only take me 578 rl years (if my calculations are correct) to finally get a big house!

[Deminia]

While I do agree that access to the top tier of housing should be something to work hard for, the low end prices on this scale are not even remotely what I would consider the "cheap and small" starter home. On my server, 20 million for the cheapest plot of land is just ridiculous.

I was really looking forward to this patch, but this has made me angry and highly disappointed.

[Dyvid]

Not everyone is suppose to have the First Class lot. It'll be the biggest FCs on the server. You scoff at the prices but I'm willing to beat those high dollar lots are going to be sold in the first month.

[Quesse]

It's funny, though, that there are a million good changes in those patch notes and the one thing most people are going to focus on is the cost of FC housing. I agree that it's ridiculous (obviously), just find it pretty silly that people are coming out of the woodwork "OMG CAN'T BELIEVE THIS SE HAS DONE IT AGAIN UNSUBBED SELLING ALL MY FINAL FANTASY DISKS ON EBAY AAAAAAAAAAA"

Housing was the one thing I was personally looking forward to. SE pretty much quashed my dreams since on my server I cannot afford half the smallest worst land plot. Maybe between all my FC members would could - but is spending ALL our gil for the smallest worst land plot supposed to excite me?

So SE has succeeded in giving housing to the 5% that can afford it and alienating the other 95%. Not that good of a business strategy.

[Evenstar]

Not everyone is suppose to have the First Class lot. It'll be the biggest FCs on the server. You scoff at the prices but I'm willing to beat those high dollar lots are going to be sold in the first month.

I am the leader of a small casual endgame LS, about 30 active members and with some luck we can maybe get the 5th class land for a small house.

SE is simply trying to fix the economy by asking those insane prices. The ones defending this are even crazier than SE staff itself.