An Open Letter to Yoshida-san: Please Slice One Zero Off the Housing Prices

[Yokosho]

Hopefully I can buy a house soon

[LiadansWhisper]

And I'm sorry too, if you don't read the replies thoroughly then theres no point in discussion.

Last thing I want to point out is that the MB does indicate the gil circulation. Yes.
But it does not indicate how much gil a player has so stop bringing it up

Edit : Back to the game, spent quite alot of the time to read the pages actually

I'm sad that you can't (or won't) see how you are putting words in other people's mouths by dismissing their concerns as just, "They want things handed to them."

[greenandblack]

you have many programers at your disposal why would you take the risk of upsetting so many players who were looking forward to housing! why not program something so players and FC's could only have ONE house who needs more then ONE like really. I am quite upset with this and so are many of my FC mates how hard would it have been to make one little program to assure everyone would get a house. Not only could this problem have been solved it is your ONLY reasoning as to why pricing is so high. I went through the work of running dungeons and saving as much gil as i could so my house could enjoy housing as soon as possible and now we have to wait ANOTHER THREE MONTHS. sorry if i sound pissed off and upset but i am!

[Ksenia]

One of the problems as well is the delivery method.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out there are FC's on Sarg that have spent a combined amount far above 400 mill to upgrade characters. An over meld here, an over meld there. Boots today, an ear ring the next.

With housing though, it's one bill all at once and cash up front.

TBH this system should have been done in a shares system. Buy shares in an FC land deed and be accountable to the people shelling out hundreds of millions of Gil. FC's don't actually have any money. It's all donations.

[LordBelialX]

SE should hire ME instead, because I've come up with a solution in less than 1 minute (Apologies if its been mentioned, there's a LOT of posts to read). COMPANY CREDITS.
1) Its a COMPANY House, so why not use Company Credits, a resource accumulated through Company members to purchase FC houses?
2) Its impossible to scam/control/abuse a market where the currency is impossible to farm/trade/obtain illegally.
3) Limiting a FC to one house would instantly remove any chance of abuse, and this allows FCs to obtain a house appropriate for their size.
4) If they insist on consuming our gil, perhaps making the land purchasable with Credits and the houses themselves with Gil.
I think I just solved each and every issue. Comments and feedback appreciated.

[MakotoNano]

They could just have a rent option. i.e. large house on a medium server would be like, 1mil a week, or 2mil a week. If you fail to pay rent, house goes up for resale and another FC can buy it.

[Soraki-Muppe]

If you think the prices are to high, there is a way to send that message to SE. It is something that cost you zero time and no effort, what I am talking about is this: Do not buy any land, just ignore the housing part until they lower the price to a level you are okey with. Seeing as they have talked a lot about this feature I am pretty sure they want it to be used, so if many players ignore it then they will lower the price sooner or later.

I understand that people want FC-housing, I also want that. However I refuse to waste my FCs money in order to buy something that cost way more then it is worth.

[Soraki-Muppe]

And here is a crazy idea, instead of these prices on FC-housing, how about this.
You go to your grand company and there you can do 3 different quests for them, these quests cost FC-credits and have to be completed with full FC groups. It would be multi-part and you would have to buy every part, if you fail a part you do not have to redo the parts you completed but you will have to buy said part again. If your FC is rank 7 or 8 you should also be able to bet a rank for added reward on parts of the quest.
1 quest is for a small area, it is not that difficult. So low risk and low reward.
1 quest is for the medium area, the difficulty is in the middle. Some risk and some reward.
1 quest id for the large area, this one is difficult. High risk and high reward.
There would be no rich players buying all the land AND it would make all the members feel like the house was something they worked for together.

[Broan]

Hello everyone, new player here and i dont speack english very well, but let me try to explain what i think abaur the HOuses systems.

Is so hard to some players farm that lot of money, Why u dont make one Medium house in every land and give it free in a game tournament. Like an event, during 1 or 2 week...that will give a chance to "ppl who dont have a life to farm all that money" to have one a couple of weeks. The game tournament/event will ve a simple game like a Chocobo Race,Or make a sea and that players need to found a "treasure box in to the sea" hide into a big boat into the sea whit lot of rooms or dunno! who wanna sing up need before to work whit hes team farming something. The FC who give u more items farmed,can participate in that event/game tournament.

Sorry for that english but i hope all of u can understand what is my point. I think will be funny that "games" They is 3 lands, so that will be 3 diferent events every 2 weeks. Regards everyone and have funny!

[Lamentations]

but teleports and repairs are hardly ever that much gil. Like you can easily make that money back. How is 500-5000 gil a day expensive?

There are people who overcomplicate things and people who oversimplify them (you), you are leaving so many variables out of your comments concerning the market in later statements concerning gathering and crafting it's a real curiosity, things such as elevated competition, market glutting due to said new demand for housing gil, and massive undercutting as a result.

And before you ask I played the AH in FFxi for over 8 years, your assumptions that gil is so easy to come by marketwise seems to suggest that nothing changes when a massive new need for gil is patched in.

Might want to think that over again, the prices are too high for housing, this patch was botched.