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

[Fumamyena]

So...I find myself wondering...Why is everyone so worried about the housing? Go work and grind just like every other FF ever created. This FF is actually the easiest of the FF's. They taught us that we didn't need to grind to level so now we complain because we need to grind to earn gil...Why don't you guys just start asking Square to make a weekly deposit to your character. If the game requires no time or effort to earn the prestigious items then whats the point in playing. Square has just given everyone in the game a reason to start building an economy that everyone has been complaining about. Typically you choose an MMO to play for a long time, this is supposed to be Call of Duty where you just run through and in 6hrs you have beaten the game and just go pick up something else. Its a game designed around investment and retention, so stop whining on the boards and go make some gil, or just quit playing because no matter what Square does you people won't be happy.

[Onyxys]

They taught us that we didn't need to grind to level so now we complain because we need to grind to earn gil...Why don't you guys just start asking Square to make a weekly deposit to your character. If the game requires no time or effort to earn the prestigious items then whats the point in playing. Square has just given everyone in the game a reason to start building an economy that everyone has been complaining about. Typically you choose an MMO to play for a long time, this is supposed to be Call of Duty where you just run through and in 6hrs you have beaten the game and just go pick up something else. Its a game designed around investment and retention, so stop whining on the boards and go make some gil, or just quit playing because no matter what Square does you people won't be happy.

You are planing to live (play) in this game forever. Ok. But most of players dont have such wishes

[Fumamyena]

You are planing to live (play) in this game forever. Ok. But most of players dont have such wishes

I wouldn't say forever but there is content planned every couple months and multiple expansions over the next several years so ya I plan on playing for a while just like i played XI for 7 years. If you don't want to play the game for an extended period of time why are you even playing an MMO, there are plenty of very worthwhile traditional RPG's that you can play for a few months and move on. You can't say the community of an online game because if that were the case you would want to continue playing. Having been a 1.0 player, The main core of my LS ~40+ people are all still playing. Not including the downtime between releases its going on a couple of years since most of us started at launch of 1.0.

[AmnesiaHaze]

I wouldn't say forever but there is content planned every couple months and multiple expansions over the next several years so ya I plan on playing for a while just like i played XI for 7 years. If you don't want to play the game for an extended period of time why are you even playing an MMO, there are plenty of very worthwhile traditional RPG's that you can play for a few months and move on. You can't say the community of an online game because if that were the case you would want to continue playing. Having been a 1.0 player, The main core of my LS ~40+ people are all still playing. Not including the downtime between releases its going on a couple of years since most of us started at launch of 1.0.

you you're saying restricting most people from content such as housing is the right way to go? especially for ps3 players that couldnt play forever its discriminating to calculate prices based on most rich people playing since launch

[Fumamyena]

Last I checked you were not restricted from purchasing land. What I am saying is that just like any other FF game released you have to work for what you want. On a regular basis after leveling crafts and DoL I can turn around about ~1-2mil a week if I only focused on making money. In reality farming a few hours a few times a week i can walk away with about 500k in profit a week. Just because you don't want to take the time to do that doesn't mean that the prices SE set on the houses are wrong. As for the PS3 players, ya it sucks that the game was delayed for so long, but how should that diminish all the hard work that I have done to earn my gil? Legacy players for the most part have been of the mindset that gil is a total joke in this game because it was not needed for anything until this point in time.

[AmnesiaHaze]

just sold a item for 2 gil , just completed a hunting log got 1 gil, now just to repeat that a billion times and i get a house yay

[Shaone]

The way I see it... it's painful for those on legacy servers right now, but a stepping stone towards removing segregation of legacy players and allowing them to move to non-legacy worlds, by trying to bring the economies closer together.

Whether or not this tactic will work, I couldn't say. But each house sold on a legacy world takes 5-10x the amount of cash out of the economy as it does on a non-legacy, and the more that is removed from legacy, the smaller the gap becomes. In theory.

[KraggyKor]

The way I see it... it's painful for those on legacy servers right now, but a stepping stone towards removing segregation of legacy players and allowing them to move to non-legacy worlds, by trying to bring the economies closer together..

There's no reason they shouldn't be allowed to do it NOW!

Or don't you know there's a 1M cap on gil you can transfer, which is chump change to many on V2 servers by now.

[Shaone]

There's no reason they shouldn't be allowed to do it NOW!

Or don't you know there's a 1M cap on gil you can transfer, which is chump change to many on V2 servers by now.

Gil is just one asset that you transfer with. I can still go and buy a ton of quick selling expensive items until I am below the cap (like Tier IV materia) and then perform a steaming dump on the market boards with them on the new world.

[KraggyKor]

Gil is just one asset that you transfer with. I can still go and buy a ton of quick selling expensive items until I am below the cap (like Tier IV materia) and then perform a steaming dump on the market boards with them on the new world.

LOL, you never studied economics, did you?

I can bring an infinite number of high priced items but that doesn't create ONE SINGLE GIL! They're high priced where they come from not where they're transferred to, they're high value on the server with a lot of gil, their value plummets on a server with nothing like as much.

*I* may end up a BIT richer but nett total gil on the server HAS NOT CHANGED! The idea that a V1 player transferring will disrupt a V2 server is economic illiteracy, and an AH 'dump' would collapse the market, not make me even richer.

Please stop talking economics, you're clearly ignorant about it.