Why is housing even being released

[Durthane]

And what exactly is the point of this post?

More or less saying SE released it before it was ready because to do otherwise would be to admit mistake and lose face. That or they intend housing to stay the realm of the few. Which I don't think is the case, at least I hope not.

Off topic, it occurs to me that with the moghouse system of FFXI they had an individual instance for every single player didn't they? Or is there a reason the servers of FFXIV can't handle a much smaller number of larger instances?

[Tinker]

More or less saying SE released it before it was ready because to do otherwise would be to admit mistake and lose face. That or they intend housing to stay the realm of the few. Which I don't think is the case, at least I hope not.

SE Loose face? Hah, They've effectively managed to fling their own crap into their face. Even gaming websites are now picking up on the outrageous prices. I'm from a guild with ~40 active members. Since we have a couple crafters who actually enjoy playing the market, we've managed to put away ~8 mil since the initial announcement.

The funny thing is that this really won't remove gill from the servers (apart from the few rich idiots who acidentaly hit the purchase button). As the housing is not attainable during a reasonable time frame, with reasonable effort most of the other guilds I've talked to have come to the same conclusion....

Basically, "f**k that, I'm keeping our gil for ourselves!"