The Truth About FC Housing (Since SE Refuses to Tell It.)

[ArkhamNative]

Im rather glad prices were set high. i know my server was the second lowest prices for everything. But to see my entire free company come together and work our asses off to accomplish getting a decent plot and make a home for ourselves was quite a gratifying experience.

I'm also glad prices weren't set so low that most FCs could afford the biggest house, especially the first month. And it sounds like many of us think that pricing in the lower tiers is reasonable.

It's the legacy world pricing that's nuts. Yoshi-P said himself: over 10 people per legacy world have over 100M gil. But that's a dozen or two extra houses to worry about. Pricing housing high so those dozen can't buy means the other 400 or so FCs on legacy worlds are completely screwed. At least Yoshi-P saw sense and will be gutting legacy world pricing, but not for 3 months, which kind of proves the OP's point.

oh, and btw, we made around 25mil in 10 days with everyone helping out. its really not that hard to get it.

On a NA data center legacy world, you would need to continue at that intensity for another 20-30 days to afford the same house. Or on a JP data center legacy world, 40-60 days for that same house.

[Roflcoptorz]

So Yoshi-san or dev team, I'm wondering when/if you ever plan on coming clean and being truthful with the community. Or is the plan to simply ignore your customers and hope for the best?

[HakuroDK]

Reading the original post, I wouldn't call a lack of server space for every FC to have a house an "unfinished product", I would instead call it a demand that far outweighs the supply. That being said, there's a very limited amount of space available. I have no doubt that the housing system itself is perfectly fine, there's just not enough space to put everyone yet.

But they'll get the servers, they'll get the prices dropped for housing, and everyone will move on to talk about the next big problem with the game.

I was one of those folks totally excited about housing. My FC was racing to save up 2 million to buy one of the biggest houses. And then the ball dropped and we gave up. I don't think any amount of raging about the issue is going to solve it. I'm sure that the prices will drop on the very next maintenance after the housing servers arrive, (hopefully) tested for ping, and finally plugged in.

And as for the whole "They LIED to the community!" thing, that's kind of a shallow thing to get offended about, almost like folks are actively trying to find a target to get angry at. Doesn't really matter what the reason is that the prices are so high. What does matter is that, regardless of the real reason behind it, the prices will inevitably drop and everyone will get to enjoy housing.

[Laf]

Free housing plot, great neighbourhood!

[PSxpert2011]

Do we tell Vietnam vets their opinions about war don't matter because many more soldiers died in WWII? Only on the FFXIV forums can you find arguments like yours. You should be the one who goes away.

[+1]

There should be a quest to get a TENT(or any into other housing content), just saying. ^^

[AndrewAlexander]

I think alot of this was designed to align the free company system to go towards a common purpose. There are a ton of small FC per server that should just be an LS. SE may want these smaller FC to merge to form communities or companies rather than gangs. Some of the largest FC have had to flush out inactive members forcing them to recruit the active ones. If every FC could buy a house, there would be no encouragement to form large communities of active players. These communities contribute to subscription retention too.

[Cor_Dirge]

I think alot of this was designed to align the free company system to go towards a common purpose. There are a ton of small FC per server that should just be an LS. SE may want these smaller FC to merge to form communities or companies rather than gangs. Some of the largest FC have had to flush out inactive members forcing them to recruit the active ones. If every FC could buy a house, there would be no encouragement to form large communities of active players. These communities contribute to subscription retention too.

japanese server, english FC... nuff said. I'd rather be in a FC that I can chat with and bond with that's small than a 400 strong FC with no one to talk to. even if I were in an english server I wouldn't be able to get to know 400 members (I'd probs chill with 5-6) so the majority of the FC would be strangers and whats the point of that?

[TrystWildkey]

I think alot of this was designed to align the free company system to go towards a common purpose. There are a ton of small FC per server that should just be an LS. SE may want these smaller FC to merge to form communities or companies rather than gangs. Some of the largest FC have had to flush out inactive members forcing them to recruit the active ones. If every FC could buy a house, there would be no encouragement to form large communities of active players. These communities contribute to subscription retention too.

I have to disagree with this. So many elements in this game are set up for solo play, or groups of 4 or at most 8. Duty Finder groups you with people from different servers, so even if you're running dungeons, you can't meet new friends and form a community.

I think that if they wanted to foster a sense of larger communities, then elements other than housing would be adjusted for larger groups.

[Mhaeric]

The conspiracy theory is alive and kicking in this thread.

[CYoung187]

I'd rather believe in the "conspiracy" then think that the developers were actually stupid enough to think this housing structure was a good idea.