Just curious how the housing markets are looking on your servers. Its been almost 2 days since the patch went live and I would suspect that by now most of the plots have sold and wanted to mention that not everyone has a problem with the house prices. I had commented in a couple threads already but it was very quickly lost in the flood of arguments.
Regardless of what people interpreted the cost of personal houses should be, to me, is irrelevant to the actual issue with how the Personal housing was implemented. Gil does not bother me, I can earn that in the game. So can everyone else.
What really bothers me is will I even be able to GET a house once I saved up the money for one? I could have 5 billion gil in my pockets for a house but it wont matter a lick if all the plots are sold. That is my major concern. I don't know what methods they are using to determine how many plots they need available to meet housing needs VS how many housing servers they can physically provide. They might actually get to a point where there will always be more than enough space.
Inevitably space will become available, between people dropping from the game or more wards added, but was going with wards really the best way to implement? Slower, more casual players like me would like to know that once they meet the in game requirements (Gil, GC rank, Level) that a housing plot will be awaiting them.
Maybe I misunderstood how they planned to implement this. While it is nice to have the FC housing set up in large communal wards like this, Personal Housing did not need to be done using the same system. Its nice to know that i can get a massive personal house but I really hoped for a housing system like in the White Knight Chronicles or even the kind of personal Personal Houses they had in FFXI.
I just feel that the people complaining about the cost of the houses are missing the real problem as I see it. If I'm completely out to lunch, fair enough. Sorry for adding more vitriol to the already touchy subject.
I do want to say that I love the game and this is not a game breaker for me. I will still try for a house and I really do hope that my concern is unjustified. I guess it will depend on how many more wards they add in for 2.4 If its just another 2 or 3 wards, that will fill up quickly. I guess time will tell.
See you in game!