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

[YuriRamona]

The real issue is that housing is simply not ready to release yet. Most likely, SE doesn't have the server capacity to allow every FC to have a house. So they instituted the prices as an artificial barrier. That way they could "release" the content without having to make it accessible. It also gives them essentially a closed beta as a few FCs will buy houses and test the systems.

^The true reason why housing prices are so high. SE was unable to meet the demand of the users and chose to deliver an unfinished product as opposed to admitting their failure and postponing FC housing.

People seem to neglect this. I'm glad people finally recognize what's going on.

This is just silly since no one is buying any housing because of the high pricing...

I thought they put them very high to combat gold buyers/sellers. Or at least I hoped they did it like that >.>

All the other reasons (RMT, gil sinks, economy) are not the predominant reason for the high price, although they certainly help those problems. Yoshi even hinted at this by saying it's not "physically possible" to make more plots available. Therefore, an artificial barrier was generated to prevent players from buying land and houses because the servers are very likely substandard or unstable.

Please understand that while we will be adding servers and expanding housing areas as soon as we can, it is simply physically impossible for us to accomplish this easily, in a matter of one or two weeks.

Is this really a legitimate excuse? Months after release, the game is not ready to handle a handful of new instances? I'm having serious concerns about the network infrastructure of this game if we are looking at the need in future patches (and EXPANSIONS) for new instances and the server stress presented by:

• New open areas and cities
• Player housing
• Frontlines
• Main scenario duties
• New hard mode dungeons or Ballad encounters

With months of preparation and rest time following the launch fiasco with the servers, the game couldn't manage a few additional instances and areas? I'm surprised by the lack of outrage in response to this.

[Lingarn]

With months of preparation and rest time following the launch fiasco with the servers, the game couldn't manage a few additional instances and areas? I'm surprised by the lack of outrage in response to this.

I think it mostly comes down to reading comprehension.

Some people accept the gil excuses without understanding what he actually said about the servers. A lot of people suggest limiting it to 1 per FC to get around the wealthy land grab problem, even though the patch notes already say this is the case -- and did so before his lengthy response.

They say you can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time. It is kind of depressing to see it in practice, because like you, I am outraged.

[YuriRamona]

I think it mostly comes down to reading comprehension.

Some people accept the gil excuses without understanding what he actually said about the servers. A lot of people suggest limiting it to 1 per FC to get around the wealthy land grab problem, even though the patch notes already say this is the case -- and did so before his lengthy response.

They say you can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time. It is kind of depressing to see it in practice, because like you, I am outraged.

We just expect a little maturity and professionalism on SE's part when they are faced with shortcomings such as this, especially given their usual apologetic and explanatory manners. I had expected a little more honesty that these problems were a direct result of a development and preparation shortcoming, as is evident at this point. Instead, it's given one line in vague terms of "physically impossible".

[Quesse]

We just expect a little maturity and professionalism on SE's part when they are faced with shortcomings such as this, especially given their usual apologetic and explanatory manners. I had expected a little more honesty that these problems were a direct result of a development and preparation shortcoming, as is evident at this point. Instead, it's given one line in vague terms of "physically impossible".

I wonder what kind of outrage there would have been if housing was delayed until 2.2 or 2.1 was delayed until February??

I believe Yoshi sees a gil issue on servers. He saw housing needing to be delayed because of infrastructure. So he came up with this twisted plan to both delay housing and create a massive gil sink to try and correct some of the previous "dawn drop" issues from FFXIV's past. Only thing is it was contrary to everything he had previously said about housing. It was a total fail of a plan.

And here we are.