Best form of protest about the housing prices is...

[Castillan]

...not that I particularly care about the housing issue that much at all. It wasn't something I was all that excited about, but plenty on the forums are.

I'll just say this, from an objective outsider who really could care less about housing, if you want to force SE to drop the prices, then as an ENTIRE collective community, refuse to bid on any of it for as long as it takes.

Don't cheapen out and buy a small crummy block of land with a crappy house. Simply refuse, as an entire community, to engage in it.

If the community speaks as a collective whole on the issue, and boycotts the land and housing prices as they stand, SE WILL listen.

[Reiterpallasch]

Or understand that 5m, 10m, 20m etc for an entire free company isn't even close to a lot of gil. It's not even a lot for one person, so I don't get why everyone is losing their minds over it.

People keep acting like the cheapest houses will be made out of cardboard or some crap with bare dirt floors or some such.

[Nghthawk]

Let alone you won't be able to purchase anything when the servers come back online, you need to increase your FC rank before attempting to do so. If the FC pricing is high, wait until they do the same with player housing.

[Crimen]

Or understand that 5m, 10m, 20m etc for an entire free company isn't even close to a lot of gil. It's not even a lot for one person, so I don't get why everyone is losing their minds over it.

People keep acting like the cheapest houses will be made out of cardboard or some crap with bare dirt floors or some such.

You can't speak for every FC or player out there. If people are losing their minds over it, it's clearly because most people can't afford it. How many members do you consider "an entire FC" to have?

[Reiterpallasch]

You can't speak for every FC or player out there. If people are losing their minds over it, it's clearly because most people can't afford it. How many members do you consider "an entire FC" to have?

I'd say a small FC would be around 10 people or so. For those 10 people, you'd need less than 500k per person on the lower priced realms, or as much as 4m on the highest one. But even so, that's not an outrageous amount of money that it impossible to get.

Most FCs I see tend to have more than that though. I've seen many in the 40-50 member range, and some into the hundreds. There are even a few out there with capped members (active ones, mind you), and for them buying even the biggest houses will require minimal effort if people put forth the effort.

If I can afford a small 20m house on Hyperion by myself (no "legacy gil", never sold a 2 star item, never sold Titan wins, basically never sold anything over 20k sans T4 materia), what does that say about entire free companies that can't make that much?

[TrystWildkey]

If I can afford a small 20m house on Hyperion by myself (no "legacy gil", never sold a 2 star item, never sold Titan wins, basically never sold anything over 20k sans T4 materia), what does that say about entire free companies that can't make that much?

Wow, that's a great question. I can't figure out why people wouldn't all have 20 million in their pocket.

Maybe they play the game for fun and content, not for the economics? *shrug* No idea why anyone would play a video game for fun though, you're exactly right.

[Reiterpallasch]

Wow, that's a great question. I can't figure out why people wouldn't all have 20 million in their pocket.

Maybe they play the game for fun and content, not for the economics? *shrug* No idea why anyone would play a video game for fun though, you're exactly right.

Who said that a single person would need that much? I said an entire free company should have no issues whatsoever getting that much gil.

[Praeclarus]

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[TrystWildkey]

Who said that a single person would need that much? I said an entire free company should have no issues whatsoever getting that much gil.

Even the smaller free companies, maybe made up of a few rl friends? You know, groups who, maybe, play the game for fun and content?

[SarcasmMisser]

Why on earth are you assuming that people who make money aren't having fun doing it, and that the market isn't content? Everyone has fun in different ways. Get out with that idea that what isn't fun for you isn't fun for everyone.