Housing Prices Adjustments (Dec. 26)

[Parodine]

As mentioned previously on the official forums ( http://sqex.to/-e5 ), the pricing of land for legacy Worlds will be adjusted in incremental steps to match the pricing of the following non-legacy Worlds (Hereafter referred to as Group A):

Bahamut／Behemoth／Cactuar／Carbuncle／Chocobo／Diabolos／Fenrir／Garuda／Gilgamesh／Ifrit／Leviathan／Mandragora／Midgardsormr／Odin／Ramuh／Shiva／Siren／Tiamat／Titan／Tonberry／Ultros

Pricing for the following legacy Worlds is currently set at 2.5 times the amount of those in Group A (Hereafter referred to as Group B):
Balmung／Excalibur／Hyperion／Ragnarok／Sargatanas

The final price of land for Group B will first be reduced from 2.5 to 2.25 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of the next week, the price will be reduced from 2.25 to 2 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of six weeks, the final price of land for Group B will continue to drop until it has reached the same value as Group A.
* Adjustments to pricing will apply to all plot sizes.

Pricing for the following legacy Worlds is currently set at 5 times the amount of those in Group A (Hereafter referred to as Group C):
Aegis／Durandal／Gungnir／Masamune／Ridill
The final price of land for Group C will first be reduced from 5.0 to 4.5 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of the next week, the price will be reduced from 4.5 to 4 times the amount of Group A. Over the course of eight weeks, the final price of land for Group C will continue to drop until it has reached the same value as Group A.

Furthermore, the final price of land across all Worlds will be re-evaluated at some point in the latter half of January. Please be advised that the pricing of land on all Worlds will be subject to change even after the above adjustments have been made.

-http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/5b1a297a47f89e7f8263f40a013f080a4e02d706

Huzzah, cheaper land! Or at least a step in the right direction. Hopefully they keep reevaluating the prices, but a bit of cheerier news for it.

[Huxer]

Yea, this is still wildly unfair for a Non content impacting addition in a MMO. Pricing continues to be off the chart ridiculous. IF this is the best they can do then they can just have empty housing developments and pissed off players.

[Miburo]

Cool, only six to eight weeks to be treated the same as other players. Thanks SE!

[Marowit]

Are we going to match their starting or end prices?

[Yagrush]

Typical. SE responds to the community and people are still not satisfied.

[ZephyrAM]

By the end of this, the Legacy housing areas are going to explode. 40mil is nothing on these servers.

[PallasLloyd]

We already figured out that you needed more time to get your shit together on the hardware and backend. You can drop this facade. The correct answer was

The adequate amount servers will be stood up and operational by the end of the next 2 months. We apologize for misleading you all and insulting your intelligence with pathetic excuses.

You REALLY think anyone is going to go ahead and buy knowing that the price will be lower the next week? This is supposed to appease us?

[Heat]

We already figured out that you needed more time to get your shit together on the hardware and backend. You can drop this facade. The correct answer was

You REALLY think anyone is going to go ahead and buy knowing that the price will be lower the next week? This is supposed to appease us?

Since we pay subs they will act stupid and do what they want.

[Lithera]

They haven't been misleading anyone. Yoshi himself stated that server load was an issue they were monitoring and a reason behind initial limits on housing. Explain to me how they would load test something like this before it goes live? They go live with what they think their servers can handle safely (That being 5 wards per area per world) then monitor to see how the hardware holds up. They aren't just going to slap up 3 dozen server stacks just in case and call it a day. That would be a careless and probably excessive use of money. Look at it like a dam. They're easing open the flood gates rather than flinging them wide and risking the dam giving out.

[Rjain]

They haven't been misleading anyone. Yoshi himself stated that server load was an issue they were monitoring and a reason behind initial limits on housing. Explain to me how they would load test something like this before it goes live? They go live with what they think their servers can handle safely (That being 5 wards per area per world) then monitor to see how the hardware holds up.

Or they can just do what virtually every other developer does when hyping up and releasing content and actually make the content accessible, and if it breaks, fix it. Instead of carefully spoonfeeding it to us hoping it doesn't break. You don't stress test something by making it so only 1 group will get a house every one and a half weeks.