New housing area in Ishgard will be very affordable?

[Adire]

I'd pay it if i could be guaranteed a large house...

Let's go ahead and make it $30 additional per month and add a $40 one time item purchase on the mog station called "Ishgard Residence Permit" that you have to have too.

It's profitable, people will pay for it (even if you would draw the line there personally), it'll allow them to magically bypass the "limitations" so why not do that ?

More real life wealth inequality brought into the game is a nice thing after all!

[Niwashi]

Do people have 40 mil to blow on a small house just like that? D: And here I am struggling to stay above 1-2 million... I guess that's what happens when you don't grind for gil or craft...

The problem is that SE cannot price them at a level that people can blow just like that. Until they drastically redesign how the housing system works, they won't be able to provide enough houses for more than a very tiny percentage of the players. They price the houses to ensure that only a similarly tiny percent could have a hope of buying one anyway. It's the only way they have to bring demand down somewhere a bit closer to the supply (though on some servers, it still fails on that). If houses were reasonably priced, then everyone would want one, and SE can't hope to meet that demand with the type of implementation they have in place.

Let me rephrase: I would say your position is only true at the start of heavensward... when even getting permission to enter is difficult. By the end, the political landscape is quite different.

But if housing were made available, which point of the story would it be at? The requirement for current personal housing is just level and GC based, with no story requirement (beyond having joined a GC, which would have been way earlier). Ishgard housing would have to add a requirement of reaching Ishgard, which already makes it more story-dependent than what we have now, but now that you've brought that up, I wonder if it would require finishing rather than simply starting HW content.

Story requirements also bring up an interesting point about FC houses. Ishgard housing may have to be limited to personal housing only. Most FCs would have new members who can't get to Ishgard yet, and I doubt SE would let their FC house give them a shortcut there when they shouldn't be able to reach it yet.

[MageBlack]

Let's go ahead and make it $30 additional per month and add a $40 one time item purchase on the mog station called "Ishgard Residence Permit" that you have to have too.

It's profitable, people will pay for it (even if you would draw the line there personally), it'll allow them to magically bypass the "limitations" so why not do that ?

More real life wealth inequality brought into the game is a nice thing after all!

If adding that extra fee will help better the game and allow all who meet the requirements to have a house, Sure! Cant wait for your excellent suggestions to become reality! Sign me up!

[DragonHunterG]

I hope so. I would definitely transfer from my plot in the Goblet to Ishgard and I would easily put my plot up for sale for a nice spot in Ishgard to call home.

[Risvertasashi]

Ishgard housing would have to add a requirement of reaching Ishgard, which already makes it more story-dependent than what we have now, but now that you've brought that up, I wonder if it would require finishing rather than simply starting HW content.

Current housing also has GC rank requirements, actually. More to point, I'm pretty sure Ishgard housing would be gated behind something. It's SE's modus operandi.

It's also worth noting I was only commenting on the political elements, since that's what the OP was focused on. There's also that little matter of the Dragonsong war to worry about. But I'm sure the writers will make the lore fit whenever Yoshi & co decide it's time to go ahead with it.

[Twilite]

In seconds faster than Usain Bolt can run, there will be no houses to buy when it's released.

[Hyrist]

I don't expect housing to be affordable until the demand for more housing drops completely off, leaving housing plots empty for long periods of time.

However, given the fact that not even half the demand for housing has been met, I would say we're years off from that happening.

[ShirKirakira]

You know, I have an idea for super cheap housing in Ishgard.

The current inn that the player uses in Ishgard is a mess (trash on the floor, broken down furniture). I think it would be super neat if we got a quest or paid to renovate that room. After renovations, the room would be yours to decorate as you see fit, make it just like the small rooms that are available to players in their free company houses, heck, even make it around the same price. That way every player could get a taste of housing, rather than having to purchase an outrageously priced plot or be tied to a free company. Would it be fancy as a full housing plot? No, but it would be at least a place I could store and show off my furniture. Consider it entry level housing.

[Blood-Aki]

In seconds faster than Usain Bolt can run, there will be no houses to buy when it's released.

This, When housing was released (personal housing) on more populated servers, people were mad dashing to plots and snatching them up quickly. Pretty much camping the play button. The same WILL happen for HW housing. No question there.

[Colorful]

Let's go ahead and make it $30 additional per month and add a $40 one time item purchase on the mog station called "Ishgard Residence Permit" that you have to have too.

It's profitable, people will pay for it (even if you would draw the line there personally), it'll allow them to magically bypass the "limitations" so why not do that ?

More real life wealth inequality brought into the game is a nice thing after all!

If the only options are to pay real money, or to not have a house at all I'd prefer the first option. But as they've said time and time again it's not server space that's the issue, but how frequently they backup the data. If they go through with that and the housing isn't instanced, I'm going to have to believe they've been feeding us lies for the past while.