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

[xanj]

But....
You knew this was coming.

You knew this was coming from the start.
Actually... You knew this was coming pre-2.Ø...

I just...
Why?
Why has it not been decided that the data centers should be upgraded to handle the game and all of its features in full?
Why does this continue to be such a limiting factor, and how long is this going to keep cropping up?

I wasn't likely to get FC housing anyway due to the rank requirement and the fact that, even at 'reasonable' prices, it'd be probably beyond a 1-person FC, but the thing that's been eating at me through all of this and what has made me so negative is specifically the concern expressed above; we keep running into issues because not enough investment is being made into the hardware...

i know they keep not investing in the real meat of the game such as solid coding and proper server hardware

[Muzy]

what about the legit players? doesnt seem fair to punish everyone for a few rotten apples dont u think? i would also like to bring up botting here. have u any idea how many people are botting in the game at any given moment? i can give u the specific spots where these botters are at. despite how many reports ive made on them. theyre still there. weeks upon weeks upon weeks.

I know, it sucks, sadly too many people just go with the bigger hammer mentality and punish everyone. And ruin things for everyone.

[everlongbac]

Seriously what a weak excuse

[Sagimoto]

If they want housing to be worked towards with a group of people in a free company, why not allow houses to be purchases with both gil/free company points?

I just want a house to live in Yoshi-san. I want to belong somewhere.

[MagicWand]

I like the idea of company coins instead of gil. This make purchasing a guild house into a group venture instead what we have now. Giving all our hard earn gil to ONE person and hoping later on he doesn't kick us out of his guild. I don't know about you but I don't feel good about buying ONE person (leader of the guild) a huge house to do as he pleases.

So as long as it is the way it is, I will not waste my gil to buy another person a house. I will wait for personal housing. And let other idiots piss away their gil to buy ONE person his house.

[MagicWand]

The explanation makes complete sense if you have a brain. Thanks SE for trying to protect the players, even if most can't understand that. +1 Yoshi

It's good to see that you are willing to give gil to buy another person his house.

[MagicWand]

what about the legit players? doesnt seem fair to punish everyone for a few rotten apples dont u think? i would also like to bring up botting here. have u any idea how many people are botting in the game at any given moment? i can give u the specific spots where these botters are at. despite how many reports ive made on them. theyre still there. weeks upon weeks upon weeks.

Those botters have the shard market cornered. Too bad the Devs can't get rid of shards being used in crafting. But I guess the Gil sellers will find another resource to sell.

[coffeeking]

complete support it's for fun, it doesn't make you stronger or w/e

[Ninjaii]

Snipped evasive Jargon that only means they spent far too many resources determined to point things in the wrong direction.

Pretty much everything Yoshi-P said only means they won't really have Housing ready til the next patch. So why not just wait til the next patch instead of setting such a negative impression on Housing for the whole server currently just because `0.06% of the server population has over 100 million gil and u delusionally believe Housing is going to make them as poor as the rest of the population.

#1 Why does it matter that they have so much gil, if gil plays so little importance in anything else in the game? It's like saying it's not fair that Bill Gates is so wealthy when he needs to buy a roll of paper towels...

#2 How is this supposedly going to stop them from continuing to have such a massive amount of gil? If they have that much gil i doubt they just throw it all away for a house. If they were going to throw it away so easily they would of already. Especially since nothing with Housing is implemented aside from Vanity and it's already confirmed they will retain 100s of millions of gil if they just wait til next patch like everyone else. U really think they are going to spend an extra 1/2 billion gil on some servers, when they already know they won't have to next patch?

#3 If you really think it's such a bad thing about these people accruing so much wealth why not tackle the ways to their means? (predominantly Merc'ing) If it's such a bad thing they are wealthy, they are never going to stop being wealthy as long as their profit-making is still operating. If we're never going to have Legacy > non-Legacy server transfers until this 0.06% isn't wealthy anymore, then we're just never going to have those server transfers.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing they are wealthy, you are.

[Raithen]

Point 2: This "Is Going To Happen", some FC leader is already planning his/her extortion of FC members gil.

I already posted just a couple posts before Yoshida did about how Free Company housing is the equivalent of Relic Weapons from FFXI in that a large number of players were required to put forth effort to get ONE person an upgraded relic weapon (at a time).

Giving money to a Free Company works exactly the same in that the houses currently belong exclusively to the Free Company leader and any access restrictions/layout/furnishing decisions are ultimately theirs. A Free Company leader kicking you from their Free Company after you have donated would be the FFXI equivalent of server-hopping with the LS bank.

So as long as it is the way it is, I will not waste my gil to buy another person a house. I will wait for personal housing. And let other idiots piss away their gil to buy ONE person his house.

Precisely this. If you ever give a Free Company gil in order to buy a house, you are a complete moron. I have no sympathy.

This idea that Free Company housing costs gil, and in such excessive amounts, is proof that the people running this game lack considerable amounts of common sense.