Quote Originally Posted by Keyln View Post
Methinks you overstate your claim by a wee-bit. But let's not digress here. I'm not saying that customer satisfaction is unimportant, but it does have to be balanced by game balance as well as developer vision.
This is a vanity feature. For vanity features balance plays a much less important role than customer satisfaction, by definition.

Did not Yoshida say on numerous times that housing would be expensive? Why act so shocked when he actually keeps his word?
He also stated that it would take about the savings of three level 50 players. So again, you're wrong. Expensive and mindboggling are two different things.

Anecdotal. For every story you can give of a FC not being able to afford the cheapest lot, there's a story of a FC that can, as of now, afford a first class slot.
Keep trying with the semantic tricks without noticing how ridiculous they are. Even if some FCs can afford it, it doesn't disprove that the feature is locked out from a large part of the population. Basically you don't have a point.

People who have been on Legacy servers and playing since 1.0 generally have more gil than those who started with the release of 2.0. Even after the number slash, players from 1.0 are still gillionaires.
There's tons of players on the legacy servers that don't come from 1.0, and tons of players from 1.0 that don't even have a million, or much less.

I'll admit that FFXIV is going into new territory by offering guild housing first, and then personal housing. With that said, I think calling it "high engagement" is an over-statement. Housing is a feature, but not the main point and part of the game.
Your knowledge of the MMORPG market is obviously very limited. And you demonstrate it with every single thing you write. When any developer adds housing to its MMO it's publicized immediately as a primary feature, because they know what kind of draw it has.

Hyped? Again, over-statement. A quick look at the topics on Lodestone, Housing was featured only once, along with every other main addition in 2.1. Lightning Returns got more coverage. As far as "vast portion", I think that's not taking into account that there are more gil fountains in 2.1, that prices will fall over time, and that personal housing isn't in yet.
My, you seem to have a vested interest in stating falsehoods. Housing was hyped during *every single live letter* *personally* by the *president and CEO of Square Enix* so much that he was nicknamed "Uncle housing." There's no other feature that got a similar treatment.

Get your facts straight. You really need it, because the falsehoods permeating your posts to defend an obvious blunder are stifling.