how many houses are they adding?

[Derio]

Possibly they may raise prices by 50%. But I am hoping they reduce prices to make them more affordable, and mostly add more small houses than anything else.

[LaylaTsarra]

Possibly they may raise prices by 50%. But I am hoping they reduce prices to make them more affordable, and mostly add more small houses than anything else.

You have clothing that costs more than a house. Have you checked the pricing on 220 gear? I'd love for prices to stay the same but you can be sure they aren't planning to lower prices. It sure is going to make getting one a lot harder for those who don't gather or craft.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You have clothing that costs more than a house. Have you checked the pricing on 220 gear? I'd love for prices to stay the same but you can be sure they aren't planning to lower prices. It sure is going to make getting one a lot harder for those who don't gather or craft.

220 gear on my server is like... 300k a piece. its way less than a house :P

[Lexia]

220 gear on my server is like... 300k a piece. its way less than a house :P

That cause everyone pretty much bought their stuff already, that gear was selling for like 3 million a piece.

[Ashkendor]

You have clothing that costs more than a house. Have you checked the pricing on 220 gear? I'd love for prices to stay the same but you can be sure they aren't planning to lower prices. It sure is going to make getting one a lot harder for those who don't gather or craft.

i220 crafted gear is like 200k-1mil per piece on my server, and you can get it crafted for way less. Small houses start at 4mil.

[LaylaTsarra]

i220 crafted gear is like 200k-1mil per piece on my server, and you can get it crafted for way less. Small houses start at 4mil.

On Siren the pieces are costing anywhere from 700k to 1.6 million for HQ. I just checked the Casting top and the lowest price was 1.6 million with the last few selling for close to that. Prices are going up it appears and I would have thought it would have been the other way around. My point is at least market board prices on my server for the left side for BLM, WHM and others cost as much if not more than a small house. Forget accessory prices they are much more than that.

Housing prices have remained the same since introduction. Personally I would love to see them stay the same but that doesn't appear to be in the cards.

And I agree you can get it crafted for less but let me tell you i'm getting rich selling 220 mats many of which are from Legendary nodes.



Edit: I actually paid 2 million for my house when I bought it given at that time houses were plentiful and the prices bottomed out after depreciating for months.

[Ashkendor]

My point is at least market board prices on my server for the left side for BLM, WHM and others cost as much if not more than a small house.

Eh, but realistically most people don't equip a full set of crafted gear. It's for gap filling on slots with sucky stats.

[Stuzack]

It would confuse me if they raised housing prices. Why would they do that? You'd just have the same issue with the richer players buying out houses again just to sell them on, whilst the players that have managed to save up just enough for a house (me included) are priced out yet again.

My guess is they'll reduce prices, to allow more people to have a shot at housing.

[MomomiMomi]

It would confuse me if they raised housing prices. Why would they do that? You'd just have the same issue with the richer players buying out houses again just to sell them on, whilst the players that have managed to save up just enough for a house (me included) are priced out yet again.

My guess is they'll reduce prices, to allow more people to have a shot at housing.

How are the rich going to sell them to you if they're already too expensive for you to buy?

As long as they buy them they can sit on the empty house for as long as it takes to sell it to someone once they have the even higher amount of gil that will be required by the reseller.

As long as houses are prohibitively expensive, there will be empty houses. Why buy from a reseller when you can just buy one of the empty ones? And don't forget you need to pay twice. Not only does the reseller have to sell higher than they bought it for, but the buyer has to pay that amount twice. If it's so expensive that people can't afford it, good luck with that.

[Stuzack]

How are the rich going to sell them to you if they're already too expensive for you to buy?



As long as houses are prohibitively expensive, there will be empty houses. Why buy from a reseller when you can just buy one of the empty ones? And don't forget you need to pay twice. Not only does the reseller have to sell higher than they bought it for, but the buyer has to pay that amount twice. If it's so expensive that people can't afford it, good luck with that.

I really hope you're right. I'm going to make sure I'm ready to log on as soon as new housing is released, just so I can get a plot.

But just going from what has happened in the past - When the houses were released last December on Balmung, they were all gone more or less within 5 minutes, and the PF was full of people selling their newly aquired homes. - Better safe than homeless, eh?