New Live Letter: YoshiP Comments on Housing Prices

[frostmagemari]

So you'll be lazy and not work on other ways to get money? I make 200-300k a day (Just about every day, sometimes 150k area just depends on what am selling and such)

You do realize that with the housing being released, your profit margins will drop considerably. A lot of people will want the housing, but at the moment barely anyone can realistically afford it; What does this mean? It means that everyone will be attempting to -sell- to everyone, but the amount of buyers in the market will be severely reduced because they won't want to set themselves back days/weeks worth of Gil.

edit: sorry, realized i somehow double-posted.

[Lafiele]

20,000g per day. So an FC with 10 members will make 200k a day, the cheapest house on Durandal is 40,000,000 . 40,000,000 / 200,000 = 200 days to obtain the smallest house. 30 days (roughly) in a month, 200/30 = over 6 months to obtain the cheapest house on Durandal.

20,000 per day, the most expensive house is 645,000,000, so it'll only take 32,250 days for that FC to obtain that, or with 100 members, 3,250 days, or with 1,000, a year.

"Let's introduce content that most people will not obtain"
"Why?!"
"Why not?"
"Oh, okay, let's go for it!"

You know, you started off ok then at some point it just went horribly wrong. Not to mention that you're using the maximum price.

To save you some face and all the likes on your post too, I'll give you a hint. An FC has more than 1 person.

[Lexxuk]

You know, you started off ok then at some point it just went horribly wrong. Not to mention that you're using the maximum price.

To save you some face and all the likes on your post too, I'll give you a hint. An FC has more than 1 person.

Umm, maybe if you went back and read my post you'll see where I stated it would take 1,000 members 1 year to purchase the most expensive property, or do you consider an FC of 1,000 people too small to warrant the largest property? Did you also miss the bit where I pointed out it would take an FC with 10 members 6 months to get the 40m house? Did you totally miss the fact I didn't state once in my post about 1 person saving up that amount of gil? You must have.

Taking into account a 50% reduction, it would take 1,000 members 6 months to obtain the best property, 500 members would take a year, it's simple enough.

[Mjollnir]

Taking into account a 50% reduction, it would take 1,000 members 6 months to obtain the best property, 500 members would take a year, it's simple enough.

Hi Lexx! /1.0alpha brofist

Anyway talking Legacy servers, 625mil (the most expensive) after 90 days is 310mil (considering a 50.4% reduction - though obvs not sure if it's 50.4% or 50%, but w/e). So for a 100 (active) member FC that's 3.1mil each. That's 1mil per month which is 250k/week - that's not by any means a stretch. Give it six months rather than three if you're playing casually.

I do see the point that most of us exist in FCs that have substantially smaller headcounts (mine is 10 for instance). It annoys me that FCs have the functionality and the identity and that LSes are just chat channels - if it were reversed and the LSes had the identity and Actions, yet small LSes could join together under one FC banner, this whole thing would be a lot more palatable.

Also, for 155mil (price for large on my server after 90 days) I don't want a glorified tavern, I want a Twelve-damned castle with individual barracks rooms for each of the sub-groups of the FC, an armoury, a airship-landing bay, a shop, a stables, a war-chamber, a throne room and a sodding aetheryte crystal.

[Lexxuk]

Hi Lexx! /1.0alpha brofist.

Shh, we're under NDA about the fact we were the very first people in the world to play XIV! After the Japanese :P

Anyhow, if we don't move our mouse we'll get 40m gil faster >.> <.< MWAHAHAHAHA

[Roflcoptorz]

So basically this is how I translate what Yoshi said:
We failed to properly test our new content, and instead of pushing the patch back for a 3rd time (and CT for a 4th time as it was supposed to be ready at launch) we decided to release the content. To ensure we can stress test it, we will simply hike prices up to a point where no one can reasonably afford it until 3 months from now. That way we can "say" it is available without actually having to make it available. Once we actually have it ready, we can drop prices and "actually make it avialable."
Common Yoshi, do you really expect players to wait another 3 months for the main content of this patch???

[BillyBones]

Common Yoshi, do you really expect players to wait another 3 months for the main content of this patch???

Getting First-class plot on day one and it won't even hurt my wallet. But yeah, you should whine more and wait 3 months to actually see the main content of this patch.

[cloverkitty]

20,000g per day. So an FC with 10 members will make 200k a day, the cheapest house on Durandal is 40,000,000 . 40,000,000 / 200,000 = 200 days to obtain the smallest house. 30 days (roughly) in a month, 200/30 = over 6 months to obtain the cheapest house on Durandal.

20,000 per day, the most expensive house is 645,000,000, so it'll only take 32,250 days for that FC to obtain that, or with 100 members, 3,250 days, or with 1,000, a year.

"Let's introduce content that most people will not obtain"
"Why?!"
"Why not?"
"Oh, okay, let's go for it!"

He did say good sized FC.
So if everyone makes 20k a day * 300 members * 90 days = 540,000,000 then you could buy a large house even on Riddill, with gil to spare after the 50% reduction, assuming noone buys it sooner.

Now if you have a a 300 member FC I don't see the above as even close to realistic.

[MisaCeliousa]

20,000g per day. So an FC with 10 members will make 200k a day, the cheapest house on Durandal is 40,000,000 . 40,000,000 / 200,000 = 200 days to obtain the smallest house. 30 days (roughly) in a month, 200/30 = over 6 months to obtain the cheapest house on Durandal.

20,000 per day, the most expensive house is 645,000,000, so it'll only take 32,250 days for that FC to obtain that, or with 100 members, 3,250 days, or with 1,000, a year.

"Let's introduce content that most people will not obtain"
"Why?!"
"Why not?"
"Oh, okay, let's go for it!"

why do you expect a fc with 10 members to get the biggest house possible?

[Aruseth]

20,000g per day. So an FC with 10 members will make 200k a day, the cheapest house on Durandal is 40,000,000 . 40,000,000 / 200,000 = 200 days to obtain the smallest house. 30 days (roughly) in a month, 200/30 = over 6 months to obtain the cheapest house on Durandal.

20,000 per day, the most expensive house is 645,000,000, so it'll only take 32,250 days for that FC to obtain that, or with 100 members, 3,250 days, or with 1,000, a year.

"Let's introduce content that most people will not obtain"
"Why?!"
"Why not?"
"Oh, okay, let's go for it!"

hell I made 10mil this month and the month isn't even over. Craft farm fish meld sell not a hard concept. im not bragging about my wealth just saying your idea of 20k a day is so close minded. and in our FC ppl are working together to make the money to get the house we want which is the 312mil one of course and we only have 60 members. Needless to say not a one of us is complaining whaaaaa its to hard.