Personal Housing Questions

[Niwashi]

The mistranslation was that it would be lower, they still gave 850k as a potential figure, even if "that sounds a bit low"

Well, I don't feel like looking it up, but the conversation was something along the lines of:
Q: "Well, I've got about 850k saved up so far. Would that be enough?"
A: "No, it wouldn't"
It wasn't ever really mentioned as being a potential figure. It's simply the only number that appeared in the conversation, so players latched onto it.

But the reason I don't feel like looking it up is that I couldn't care less about the price. It's irrelevant since there aren't going to be houses for anyone to buy anyway. Eight wards total, and only two new ones? When they clearly need several hundred? That's laughable, except I'm not laughing.

I had figured that even if they screwed up personal housing, we'd at least still have FC housing. I'm in what was originally a two-person FC, but turned into a de facto private FC when my partner quit playing. I figured that if they screwed up personal housing enough that I didn't want it, I could get an FC house once I hit FC rank 6. Now that's not going to be possible.

I'm guessing the two new wards will be filled in about 5 minutes, long before most of us can even download the update. Houses go to those from amongst the ultra-rich players who have the fastest download speeds. Even if I had the rank and gil for it, just the fact that downloading a patch takes me several hours would be enough to keep me out of the running to even be able to try to get one.

So basically, if you don't already have a house, you can forget about ever being able to get one. You've got probably less than a 1% chance of ever seeing an available plot to buy, either as an individual or an FC.