Hey Yoshi, you said personal housing "will be far more affordable."

[Yahavage]

Thanks Camate, what about the question of 'why have we waited so long for content which isn't any different and why have our FC houses which some of us worked hard to get just been lumped in with personal housing therefore devoiding a lot of the value they had to our FC's and their respective members?'

[nibelunc]

Thank you for all the effort. This must be hard for the dev team.

Why can't we just have a small zone where just the own home is?
Personal Housing should be something special and accessible for everyone.
There is no reason to place it in the same zone where the FC houses are.

It would have a more personal feeling to have a house in an extra zone.

[Black91CRX]

"If we were to separate Free Company housing and personal housing into different areas, in the event that Free Company land opens up I believe we would then receive requests asking to make it possible to build personal houses on those plots. So in order to balance the two we made it possible to purchase land in the same housing areas and feel this will allow for land to be utilized efficiently."



Makes sense to me.

[Risvertasashi]

Hmm. To clarify my last post a little, I'm still pretty not OK with a system that keeps housing in the hands of a very very small elite (in terms of pricing AND availability). From reading other threads around I know I'm not the only one that saved up furniture and set aside what we thought was a pretty decent chunk of change, only to get locked out of a system that was designed for groups working together to pay for it.

I won't bash Camate for being the messenger, but I will call out Yoshi for giving the impression (well, outright saying, actually.... regardless of the post-2.38 spin he puts on it) that the system would be accessible and saying NOTHING until it's dropped on us.

[Erudain]

That's great....now next time one of my customers asks me for an estimate for the services he's trying to get, I'll tell him "that price was valid until lunchtime, sorry I forgot to tell you....now it's afternoon so price has risen" and hope he's all fine and dandy with it.

[Velox]

Thank you for all the effort. This must be hard for the dev team.

Why can't we just have a small zone where just the own home is?
Personal Housing should be something special and accessible for everyone.
There is no reason to place it in the same zone where the FC houses are.

It would have a more personal feeling to have a house in an extra zone.

Especially given how each Housing area has a road that goes off to some blocked area (I was so sure that would have been the personal housing district). Now I wonder where those roads will lead to in the future.

[Cynthis]

Two things. First of all, the higher you set the prices, the more you drive players into the arms of the gil sellers so the second part of the argument "The average amount of gil in possession is much greater than you all imagine, and we are concerned that if we were to lower the cost of land for personal housing any further it would exacerbate problems like RMT and the purchase of land by secondary characters." makes no sense to me.

Secondly, I submit that the average amount of gil per player is irrelevant. If anything, look at the median amount of gil which I would bet good money is lower.

But even if it isn't, why should the access to such a basic feature as housing be limited to the few and not generally available, at least in some form...and server limitations is not an excuse since all your competitors can handle this.

[Chasely]

Hello,

The following is a comment from Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida.

That... is an idiotic response. Yoshi-P said himself that hose wards are huge server sinks. It would make more sense to create instanced personal housing and reduce the number of free company wards as they become ghost towns.

I know SE has absolutely no experience creating instanced content; what with their big, open world and dynamic server-wide events, but you're smart. You can figure it out.

[odintius]

All I can say know is you better deliver on *2.4* >.>

[kidvideo]

We are constantly checking the amount of gil everyone possesses...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oph2CR6vKY8