Latest comment from Yoshida regarding Housing + Inventory space issue

[Kardayel]

'We have come to the decision which is 2.38 in housing, by thoroughly checking the market and gil retained by players. We know how much each player has. Though it is expensive, I think housing should be an achievement where players work hard to earn the gil, it should take some effort to buy a house. Players who laze around should make some effort to make gil.
If we make it anymore cheaper, it would cause problems to the game and market with RMT etc'

It really annoys me to see that he doesn't see that the main problem of the housing system is not the price but the limited access... if the housing was not limited and the house cost 4M well... you want one, you work for one... ok, that i can accept. But it is not the problem here, the problem is there is NOT ENOUGH house. Why someone would want to make 4M gils if you know for a fact that even with tenth millions gils you'll not have an house cause of the limitation...


The last part about RMT, i'll not even comment that cause my vocabulary could become really rude >.>

[Kio]

If you have a chance could you politely ask if there's any future possibility of increasing the amount of furniture able to be placed inside the houses? Namely the large plot.

[Aylis]

Though it is expensive, I think housing should be an achievement where players work hard to earn the gil, it should take some effort to buy a house. Players who laze around should make some effort to make gil.
If we make it anymore cheaper, it would cause problems to the game and market with RMT etc

Earning gil is one thing and totally fine and good. Its when space gets factored into things its a problem. If spaces ain't there then all the gil in the world mannors to nothing more then a hill of beans. As far as the RMT is concerned, by altering the game based on RMT fears is silent admittance to already losing the battle against the RMT.

[Lionhand]

If we make it anymore cheaper, it would cause problems to the game and market with RMT etc'

This response is getting old already. I still don't get it how SE can't end it. Why not concentrate on this problem first? does it mean housing can be entirely free without this lame excuse rearing its ugly head at your subscribers? I know someone will say its a very difficult problem to control, maybe even positive for SE profit wise. But tying every in game transaction to RMTs is suppose to be not our problem. I will even be happy if an entire expansion be a hunt that involves bringing down suspicious botters, gil sellers and cheaters in exchange for a log. Make gardening yields per harvest double/triple in amount and removing chocobo raising from FC housing will be an optional solution to this server limitation. All players need is not to have limited access in "every" aspect of the game.

[Elim]

I actually like his response here. Still not happy that we didn't get wards for personal housing only, but I don't mind a house being an achievement you work for.

[Alukah]

I wonder if personal large house would be categorized as a "gil buyer achievement".

[Elim]

I wonder if personal arge house would be categorized as a "gil buyer achievement".

I don't get these angry stabs at people who can afford housing. Jealousy making people lash out, maybe?

5mil(which is the cost of a small plot on my server) is nothing if you're an active Builder of the Realm and/or Provider of the Realm. I bet you anything every single house in my ward was legitimately earned.

[Alukah]

I don't get these angry stabs at people who can afford housing. Jealousy making people lash out, maybe?

5mil(which is the cost of a small plot on my server) is nothing if you're an active Builder of the Realm and/or Provider of the Realm. I bet you anything every single house in my ward was legitimately earned.

I have a small house, so feel free to take back your assumption.

I was referring to large houses. You do know it wasn't just small houses that got the "personal" label, right? The starting price of a large "personal" house is 87m, why isn't Yoshida afraid of this drawing a lot of gil buyers?

[Yukiko]

... the opportunity to personally talk to Yoshida...

100 Allied Seals for this super rare hunt catch

[Kallera]

Though it is expensive, I think housing should be an achievement where players work hard to earn the gil, it should take some effort to buy a house. Players who laze around should make some effort to make gil.

Gee, I do remember making a considerable amount of gil...in 1.0. Whatever happened to that, I wonder?

Oh right! 90 percent of it was removed!

I get that the availability is more of a problem than the price. I'm not exactly dirt poor, but I've been hovering between being able to getting a small, and not getting a small, and I'm certainly feeling jerked by the chain here...the same chain I'll likely be tied to should I buy a house that to the chance of it getting revoked.

"Laze around"...I have words for this,and some of them aren't for children to hear. I haven't been very happy with what's upcoming in 2.4, and this is one more thing I will not be looking forward to.

Thanks for this Raine, please don't take any of this as directed at you.

This response is getting old already. I still don't get it how SE can't end it. Why not concentrate on this problem first? does it mean housing can be entirely free without this lame excuse rearing its ugly head at your subscribers? I know someone will say its a very difficult problem to control, maybe even positive for SE profit wise. But tying every in game transaction to RMTs is suppose to be not our problem. I will even be happy if an entire expansion be a hunt that involves bringing down suspicious botters, gil sellers and cheaters in exchange for a log. Make gardening yields per harvest double/triple in amount and removing chocobo raising from FC housing will be an optional solution to this server limitation. All players need is not to have limited access in "every" aspect of the game.

This, a thousand times this.