Thread: Patch 3.3 Housing Info

Originally Posted by StouterTaru

No, it would have barely dented it. Most of the flipped houses were not bought with alts.

Maybe on your server. There is an individual on our server whose whole intention of buying houses, is to own all 9 types of houses! They currently own FIVE HOMES! They also have an insane amount of gil because their life revolves around nothing but selling anything and everything. They cannot do content at all. They buy their wins, which can be proven on their own Youtube channel.

Now I have a decent amount of gil saved up. More than enough to buy a medium house at the ORIGINAL prices when housing first opened up. If they increase the prices, that may now put my chances of getting said medium I have been waiting on for years now, out of reach. And it WILL allow people as the one mentioned above who have unlimited gil the opportunity to buy the other FOUR houses out of their wanted 9, buy more OVER that amount and then resell them. The system is flawed.

Originally Posted by Sento-Frost

Yeah Nezerius but even after price drop, housing plots were still available for long times and prices had the time to go down every 6 hours.
We'll see but I'm pretty sure it'll be way more than x2, at least for small and medium plot.

Originally Posted by Sento-Frost

Problem has been stated in previous comments, when housing came out Square Enix intended it to be a gil sink, so that currency get destroyed from the game. As said by Youkulm, there is not enough gil sink and people are getting richer and richer every day. I think Square will adjust the prices in the same way as when housing came out, so that the gil sink works again.

If you remember housing patch, most FC could not afford any house, and housing plots remained up and available for months, prices had the time to go down to the minimum price (half the price) before someone had the gil to spend on it. If they want it to work again that way, I think doubling prices won't be enough and we're more talking about x5 or even more, at least on my server.

People are buying everyday allagan replicas and other glamour stuff at the price of half a house, that's saying a lot about their purse status !

Originally Posted by Nezerius

If you remember that patch, and the housing numbers it came with, you'd know how badly that turned out. The prices on the houses were insane, and there was a good reason why the housing prices were decreased by a lot.

The one thing everyone seems to be forgetting about the Housing release for FCs only several years ago is, NO ONE HAD AS MUCH MONEY AS WE DO NOW! LOLOL I have as much money as what my FC had in TOTAL to FINALLY buy a medium plot and build the house! LMAO Now you have players who have 100s of millions in gil! My GF saw a player for XIV on Youtube, who literally had over 900 mil in gil. So yeah. It's a little ridiculous. You also have to remember, gathering and crafting are NOT the only ways for people to make insane money. Selling wins is another.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

I also don't think a big one-time purchase works all that well as a gil sink. A better gil sink is taking something that's used on a daily basis, and adding a small gil price to it.

I can agree with this and your example of Mini Cactpot was a good one but then you run into issues with doing that. The out cries of, "Why can't I just buy Gold Saucer items with gil if you're going to charge me gil for playing Mini Cactpot?!" etc etc.

I keep smh when it comes to housing in here, I love many aspects of the game and give se credit on that!.

But housing....just wow. To think Rift has a design that makes housing so incredibly affordable, and available to every single player old or new. A design that does NOT destroy items once placed, that allows for 100% unique and extremely creative designs...with item limits in the thousands, with dimension space allotted that is utterly huge!!!

I still play Rift for the superior housing alone, but it is a shame that ffxiv, game I hoped was going to be more advanced and superior in this regard simply because it is so much newer...has placed the most restrictions, limitations, inflated gouging cost wise, and creative stifling I could ever imagine, all wrapped up into one bad design. ughhh
I feel for everyone tbh, I do. I hope prices do not increase, waiting years for them is enough punishment for those still searching for one.