Why is housing even being released

[Marowit]

If it's being purposefully overpriced so we can't buy it because the servers can't handle everyone buying and having one?

Maybe I'm super unique but instead of being purposefully overpriced for three months until they probably fix the servers I'd have much preferred they just didn't release housing until 2.2 when they got new servers that could handle more than 15 plots a world. It just really doesn't make sense to me to release a product you can't support and then to hide that fact make it so expensive no one can buy it.

I just can't help imagining that if they postponed housing until 2.2 or whenever they upgrade the servers that the blowback would be a tenth of what it is now. Because instead of everyone being angry that content is being released and put behind an impassable because the servers can't handle it. We'd only be a little annoyed because it was being delayed but would at least work and be affordable when it finally arrived. So instead ofeveryone wanting Yoshis head on a pike we'd at least have something to look forward too.

[Larxene]

15 plots a world? Is that an actual fact that I missed somewhere or an exaggeration?
I feel like once we get into the game, they'll make the adjustments necessary if the pricing is that staggering. After all, it'd be ridiculous to assume that they want us to not experience any part of a new feature that they've been making us excited about. It seems to me that a lot of people want to believe that they want us to suffer for some strange reason, and I think we shouldn't jump the gun just yet until we've actually, y'know experienced it all firsthand.

[McStagger]

If it's being purposefully overpriced so we can't buy it because the servers can't handle everyone buying and having one?

Just a guess, but they are releasing them because some will be able to afford the current prices and will want to have a house for their FC.

[Leknaat]

There are 30 plots per instance iirc. They'd open up another instance after the available plots are bought up allowing for (theoretically) an infinite number of plots (although it would be more likely the servers would keel over and die from the strain) necessitating more servers per x number of instances.

[Azures]

Honestly I don't get why people are upset your buying a house 512 people can use. Did they honestly expect it to be cheap ??

[RynaultB]

Honestly I don't get why people are upset your buying a house 512 people can use. Did they honestly expect it to be cheap ??

Most FCs have like 100 in it atmost, but only like 50 or less are active. The playerbase is not using FCs the way SE expected them too. There are tons and tons of small FCs with just a few people or friends. Once they make content that would need large FCs then they'll mostly stay small like they are now.

[FFVII]

Honestly I don't get why people are upset your buying a house 512 people can use. Did they honestly expect it to be cheap ??

Actually i expected the smallest patch of land to cost about 500k but not in the millions

[Romikemi]

If this was XI, people wouldn't bat an eyelash at content released that is not immediately attainable and requires a virtual life's work. Relics? Mythics?

In Gimme Entitlement Reborn, SE can't release anything that takes time and work and community building and any of the virtues they hope to instill in the player base that are lacking in its instant grat channel surfing low attention span twitterati gimme the escalade now daddy existence.

[Kinseykinz]

If this was XI, people wouldn't bat an eyelash at content released that is not immediately attainable and requires a virtual life's work. Relics? Mythics?

In Gimme Entitlement Reborn, SE can't release anything that takes time and work and community building and any of the virtues they hope to instill in the player base that are lacking in its instant grat channel surfing low attention span twitterati gimme the escalade now daddy existence.

Except a Public House isn't a Relic or a Mythic weapon is it?

It's casual content put on a Hardcore-grinders scale...but I'm done trying to explain that.

And how would all those FFXI vets have felt if a relic weapon was easier/harder to farm currency for depending on your server choices you made 3 months...or even 2 years ago?

[Marowit]

If this was XI, people wouldn't bat an eyelash at content released that is not immediately attainable and requires a virtual life's work. Relics? Mythics?

In Gimme Entitlement Reborn, SE can't release anything that takes time and work and community building and any of the virtues they hope to instill in the player base that are lacking in its instant grat channel surfing low attention span twitterati gimme the escalade now daddy existence.

Well this isn't 11 it's 14 and there's a difference between entitlement and it requiring 50 people donating all of their money for 45 days straight to afford a house on the NA legacy servers and 90 on the JP ones. That goes up to 90+ and 180+ when you drop down to 20ish members which is pretty common size