Personal Housing Questions

[Cidel]

Oh, almost forgot; from earlier in this thread:

I look forward to any and all threads about housing outrage due to price, availability, implementation, and/or size.

[Shougun]

Oh, almost forgot; from earlier in this thread:

Are we doing quote backs? ? We nailed it didn't we? Although unfortunately while I could I'm not quite ready to part with 4 million for a small house, let alone hoping to get a medium which im not going to do for sure now lol.

Exactly. The more you think about it, the more it makes sense they simply can't handle this kind of demand and instanced rooms would be the only viable route. Luckily for me, they're adding more FC wards so I'll be simply buying myself a mansion that way. Sucks for others though.

There is one issue to this idea though, we're playing a SE game. :P

They're completely capable of isolating themselves from the rest of the world, occasionally their QA takes the patch off and everything just vaults straight to the docks and into the holds, fire sale to hit ship and sail for players to beta test live lol.

Maybe they purposefully aren't saying anything because they don't want people to bumrush the servers trying to buy land.

I think this is the case, if they had a wonderful instanced system set up I would imagine they'd share it for pride. This seems more like the quiet before the storm lol.

I think this is the plan for most who can get on at that time. Some of my FC members plan to wake up super early and try to buy one. As fast as FC housing went on Balmung I don't doubt people are already planning to camp for personal housing.

Servers with a lot of gil are going to be the worst, I wonder if we will crash the zones trying to get that iHome rush. .

Of course I could just be pessimistic and everything is wonderful, but from what SE has said and what they've done in the past - I don't think what is wanted is what will be. I do think though if we make a big deal about it that SE can get out of their shells once more and see that there are some excellent systems in other MMOs for housing. I would expect the worse and let SE know (if what I assume is true) that they need to think of some other ideas.

/debbiedowner XD

[Bori]

I'm so furious right now. He lied. YoshiP lied. I defended him. I said he wouldn't do certain things. He did and wants us to take it as if we are STUPID. He. LIED. They were supposed to be separate zones with prices reflecting that 1 person was paying for it. I'd rather they postpone it until they had it right instead of this. I will no longer support him or defend him.

[Chiapet]

I'm so furious right now. He lied. YoshiP lied. I defended him. I said he wouldn't do certain things. He did and wants us to take it as if we are STUPID. He. LIED. They were supposed to be separate zones with prices reflecting that 1 person was paying for it. I'd rather they postpone it until they had it right instead of this. I will no longer support him or defend him.

Right on the head.

Btw SE why dont you just charge us real life money for gil or whatever and maybe we can just raise enough money to buy you the servers you need.

On a side note I keep seeing these ppl who say: "Oh you can get 6 mill in like 6 hours of play" Then why are we still beating this legacy server dead horse. How many times do you need to bleed us? The new servers have had 2.0 as long as we have. It's time they burn with the rest of us.

[Niwashi]

2 new wards would barely cover the FC needs. They need an increase of a couple orders of magnitude, not a couple of wards, if they want it to work at all as personal housing. All this update accomplishes is to take something that's NOT by any stretch of the imagination personal housing and using it to destroy FC housing. Now neither one is going to ever be available. I think SE has just destroyed their game.

[Nalien]

I think SE has just destroyed their game.

They certainly pissed off a lot of people. I'd really love to hear what exactly went on here, because there is zero reason this couldn't have been included in 2.1.

At least I don't hate my Free Company members anymore. Used to be their fault I couldn't get a House, seeing as they were dirt poor and I was already close to putting up 50% of the cost. Now I just hate Yoshida.

[Mythria]

I'm not about to quit the game or anything.. but the personal housing is such a disappointment right now. I was REALLY looking forward to it. I saved and saved in hopes of a medium house but I don't think I could even get a small house :/ Even if I waited for prices to drop they will probably all be bought up. Plus I still want a medium but that is bare minimum 15 mil..... Why are individuals supposed to pay the same price as a whole FC?!? Why??????? Just sad now

[Loony_BoB]

The great irony is that anyone wanting to make some gil on the markets is going to suffer from this, because everyone is suddenly going to hold onto their gil and at the same time huge amounts of gil is going to be removed from the game at the same time.

[Nalien]

Going back to what this thread was about last week; Well... It's obvious to see why they said absolutely nothing, but I still think they should have said something. Somewhere along the past nine months (actually, when was that 850k ballpark figure posted?) they changed their plans, and said nothing. Had they said something, a lot of this could have been avoided, instead they opted for nine months of silence. Hope they're not surprised at this out rage, this is exactly what happens when you don't communicate with your playerbase.

Whatever though, after Hunts and now this (and lots of other little things), I've lost all faith in this development team. Any good will they gained from turning 1.0 around is gone, and they're just another SE development team; it took them a year to go from super stars to no different than XIs developers. Hope they're proud.

A mistranslation from a siliconera article

The mistranslation was that it would be lower, they still gave 850k as a potential figure, even if "that sounds a bit low", or whatever Yoshida said. Why even give a figure like that? Why not just say "We cannot discuss pricing at this time" or, "We're still working on the pricing". Actually, that last one would have been a lie, since they didn't work on the pricing, at all, but still.

[Morningstar1337]

actually, when was that 850k ballpark figure posted?

A mistranslation from a siliconera article