There's a lesson to be learned here

[Epicfell]

One thing I did just think of, I guess there will be a lot of empty larger housing kicking around because most players wont buy them and a lot of fc's who have housing probs wont upgrade cus of the hassle involved. They should of just added it in the way they intended with same size housing for personal housing, maybe mix it in the existing ward structure so every other ward is personal or something.

I thought that is what they would do. I thought that personal housing would be completely separate from Free Company housing in that personal houses would not share the same instance, and all personal housing would be the same size. However, I thought pricing would vary based on location, just like Free Company housing. I pictured a real life suburbs.

I can afford a medium house, but I am not going to buy one with these prices. I think I will sit on my money, increase it, and buy a large after the prices have dropped or wait and hope the will set up a different sort of system.

I will admit that I am disappointed by this system, but I am not angry with it. I have been really excited for personal housing and I still enjoy this game so I will just sit and wait to see if they make any changes.

[existingdark]

As stated in the patch notes for Patch 2.38, the plots of land available for purchase in the housing areas will be the same for both Free Company and individual buyers. The introduction of housing plots in the future will also follow this structure.

Yeah, this right here bugs me. It's been quoted several times that they intended the two systems to be separate. This would have allowed for both Personal and Free Company housing markets to differ both in price and demand. Hell, they could have come up with more compact Housing Wards for Personal housing.

Instead, they immediately ruin the one big fix they could have made. Not only could Patch 2.4 have solved the issue by releasing separate wards, but they'd have had plenty of time to implement new wards with hell, double the amount of potential houses within the wards (Which they seem to be doing now). Problem is, they literally just told us. "Hey, we know you're pissed off that we lied to you about them being separated. But... it's okay, because this is how things are going to stay!"

Yeah, I can save up for a Medium sized house eventually. But, by that time richer players and Free Companies will have them. I could save up for a small house but... same thing.

I can sort of understand how they could feel backed into a corner, but making it worse by combining the systems and the prices for both really hurt things more than just saying they need more time, or hell, warning us that it was going to end up this way. I dunno, maybe a week's notice would've been nice. Something to say "Hey, don't stock up on housing supplies, don't get your hopes up the night of the patch. It isn't happening".

[Westwind]

Snip.

At the very least they could have told us the damn price so we could have farmed the appropriate amount of gil and stood a chance at buying one in the rush.

[Merryl]

A lot of this could be avoided if they would just release the patch notes ahead of time.

[Syrehn]

A lot of this could be avoided if they would just release the patch notes ahead of time.

No, a lot of this could be avoided if they decide to be more transparent about their development progress instead of leading players on.