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

[Reinheart]

I really want to know what the Game Watch interviewer is thinking with all of this. I'm sure he got a lot to say to YoshiP regarding this one...
Walked into Lavender Beds yesterday, the BGM is so nice but not a single house was up on Sargatanas, at least not in the district I was checking (1st)

I understand MMO is a game which requires time to put into but as a Legacy player I've been playing this game for 3 years now... They keep on saying the game just started, while as a programmer (not professional) I fully understand and respect that but they have to know XIV started 3 years ago, not with XIV ARR. Even from XIV ARR there was 3 month to prepare for housing since we all knew that it was coming in 2.1 since Beta days. In the interviews he mentioned if the FC's work hard they should be able to buy S or M sized hour when housing is launched... Where is it? I do unofficial translations of the interviews so I get hyped up while translating, as well as hoped everyone who read those interviews also got hyped up and looking forward to the housing that was to come in 2.1. But right now as it's released and was done in a way most didn't expect my feelings for housing is nothing but sad.

I'm enjoying every other content that was introduced in 2.1 so I have no complaints there but I was really, really, really looking forward to this housing as I was hoping it would help some FC's get more lively and work towards a same goal to make the FC housing really cool and stand out. Right now we can't even do that for couple more months now. We can purchase a S sized land if we wanted to but S size is for 4-5 players... we got over 100 members in the FC, about 30 active... S isn't going to be good... ><

Also on the side note - JP land cost being too high thread was moved to housing section of the forums but it's still going on everyday, every hour.

[Coris]

I really want to know what the Game Watch interviewer is thinking with all of this. I'm sure he got a lot to say to YoshiP regarding this one...
Walked into Lavender Beds yesterday, the BGM is so nice but not a single house was up on Sargantanas, at least not in the district I was checking (1st)

I understand MMO is a game which requires time to put into but as a Legacy player I've been playing this game for 3 years now... They keep on saying the game just started, while as a programmer (not professional) I fully understand and respect that but they have to know XIV started 3 years ago, not with XIV ARR. Even from XIV ARR there was 3 month to prepare for housing since we all knew that it was coming in 2.1 since Beta days. In the interviews he mentioned if the FC's work hard they should be able to buy S or M sized hour when housing is launched... Where is it? I do unofficial translations of the interviews so I get hyped up while translating, as well as hoped everyone who read those interviews also got hyped up and looking forward to the housing that was to come in 2.1. But right now as it's released and was done in a way most didn't expect my feelings for housing is nothing but sad.

I'm enjoying every other content that was introduced in 2.1 so I have no complaints there but I was really, really, really looking forward to this housing as I was hoping it would help some FC's get more lively and work towards a same goal to make the FC housing really cool and stand out. Right now we can't even do that for couple more months now. We can purchase a S sized land if we wanted to but S size is for 4-5 players... we got over 100 members in the FC, about 30 active... S isn't going to be good... ><

Also on the side note - JP land cost being too high thread was moved to housing section of the forums but it's still going on everyday, every hour.

I am going to quote you on the german forums, if you are fine with it.

Many players there (mostly from Shiva...) do not understand why we have such problems with it and keep telling us how THEY make Gil on THEIR server. They still do not understand that our economy is more or less broken and that we will be at their starting prices in 3 months while they are on the half of it or maybe already were able to purchase land. Also we have to keep listening to them calling us 1.0 players "whiners" and that we should work for it too. (Sidenote: All of us there do not have a problem with working for it!)
/sigh
It is so disappointing. They can't discuss properly without the attempt of trolling but that is a problem with the german community here...

[Black_Pearl]

SE trolled at us and a lot, their housing system is pathetic, and they destroyed in one single day what people was waiting. Is a bit disappointing cause was trusting on Yoshida and his group.

[Taaz]

daily bump of justice

[Dox]

I saw pics of small house that a FC purchased. Looks like just one floor and one room. Is this correct? If so I'm NOT going to waste my Gil on it even if our FC can't afford a medium house (yet).

[ArkhamNative]

I saw pics of small house that a FC purchased. Looks like just one floor and one room. Is this correct? If so I'm going waste my Gil on it even if our FC can't afford a medium house (yet).

That's another issue. SE hasn't released any information about FC housing yet. No floor plans, # of floors, square footage. No info about if there are any options. What buffs or benefits do FCs get? I can understand if some things aren't released yet (chocobo raising, group crafting, whatever), but surely they would like to show people what their hundreds of millions of gil is going to buy?

Anyway, threads were started specifically to ask SE for answers stuff about small plots and tangible benefits now. It's in the Housing forum section. I'm sure there will be more questions and issues raised there, too.

[T2teddy]

That's another issue. SE hasn't released any information about FC housing yet. No floor plans, # of floors, square footage. No info about if there are any options. What buffs or benefits do FCs get? I can understand if some things aren't released yet (chocobo raising, group crafting, whatever), but surely they would like to show people what their hundreds of millions of gil is going to buy?

oh really? Then what's this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1_Jbn37lw&hd=1

[Reinheart]

oh really? Then what's this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1_Jbn37lw&hd=1

Must be nice >< 100,000,000 for Large first class Happy for them though.

[Ksenia]

In a sense it is, since players create the market, and as long as people are willing to pay, there is a market, and as long as there is a market, there are going to be people determined to take advantage of it.

Quite the opposite.

FF14 has had RMT from day one back in 2010. Nobody bought Gil in 1.00 and the RMT machine just kept building stocks of it. Those stocks are what Square are using as an FC standard when deciding prices.

[TrystWildkey]

oh really? Then what's this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1_Jbn37lw&hd=1

That is a player released video, not official information from SE. Yes, it does show the size and layout of the style of house that FC picked.

What we'd like to know is if we will be locked out of any future features tied to housing based on the size of land we *purchase* (in stars because not many of us are going to be doing any purchasing.)

If they release crafting workshops, airship building workrooms and chocobo raising, will these be limited to large, or large and medium sized houses. That's some of the information we're looking for from SE.