Twice as many house sales at half the price is the same amount of gil removed SE

[DoctorMog]

Halve the price.

Sell twice as many. (EASILY)

Make your playerbase happy.

Still remove the gil.

[Hektor]

wait wait wait.... What happened to "Im long time customer now u find new one square enix i quitted becuz u dont want me" --- Grats on the first intelligent posting on the FC housing

[Hektor]

oh and tell old Filtiarne I said hello

[Raldo]

The price will be halved.... eventually

[Mazi]

So simple, yet so beautiful.

[Kyra]

Halved sounds good, I could do that.

[DoctorMog]

The price will be halved.... eventually

Halved from the beginning*

[Skies]

I get the feeling that they simply are unwilling to do that because they want a) specific sets of players to lose their gil, b) not destroy their server infrastructure with excessive housing instances and c) for the prices to actually go down and for people to play the auction game

[Alberel]

I get the feeling that they simply are unwilling to do that because they want a) specific sets of players to lose their gil, b) not destroy their server infrastructure with excessive housing instances and c) for the prices to actually go down and for people to play the auction game

This basically. The current setup will cause the filthy rich (as in dubiously, probably bought from RMT, rich) to buy immediately and waste all that gil they have. The rest of us will have to wait a bit but eventually we will have reasonable prices.

Whilst it may look like this system is punishing the poorer players it is actually punishing the richer ones by having them spend MUCH more on something everyone else will get much cheaper a little later on.