Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Originally Posted by Niwashi

Just having a delay between relinquishing a plot and having it go back up for sale could prevent selling plots and so discourage hoarding them.

^this

Who will plop down millions of gil to a re-seller if the re-seller can't guarantee they will get the plot? Make the time until it becomes available random and then you pull the bottom out of this market.

Thank you for addressing this problem quickly.

Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

To prevent speculation, we will refrain from releasing information until absolutely necessary.

I don't think that will actually prevent speculation.

One of the reasons I continue playing this game... after 1.0, and after all the time from 2.0 to now... is that SE continually reaffirms my faith that they have the best interests of players at heart and will, after receiving feedback, make essential changes to the game. A lot of people think that SE is just out to get them, or just being greedy, but honestly they just don't see the game the way we, the players, do. And that's because it's hard to... it's hard to divorce yourself from the developer mentality and look at it at just the player level and only the player level... you're constantly seeing what goes on behind the scenes, even when you play the game yourself, and that colors your opinions.

So thank you SE, and thank you YoshiP for once again reaffirming why I play this game, and why this is the best MMO out there right now.

Originally Posted by Rahspdoy

One company i'll never trust again though, is NCSoft.......

Curious as to which game and what was issue.

I've personally had multiple issues with NC. The raw bottage on Lineage2, the devs of that game never fully dealing with that and other issues.
When NC took over guildwars and then proceded to mess up accounts and let accounts be hacked and in some cases, pillaged.

Originally Posted by Niwashi

Thank you for addressing this problem quickly.


I don't think that will actually prevent speculation.

It's poorly worded, but what Yoshi P actually means is to prevent the developers from being held accountable to for anything said that may change or not be what players anticipated.

Also, by saying that he covers all bases in regards to players demanding updates

Originally Posted by Niwashi

I don't think that will actually prevent speculation.

It will certainly not prevent speculation here on the forums - encourage speculation is more likely.
What it will prevent is market speculation - where people buy or sell or otherwise prepare to make money from this. If people do not know what changes will come they cannot make preparations beforehand.

Originally Posted by MistakeNot

It will certainly not prevent speculation here on the forums - encourage speculation is more likely.
What it will prevent is market speculation - where people buy or sell or otherwise prepare to make money from this. If people do not know what changes will come they cannot make preparations beforehand.

Ah I see that makes sense.

Thanks for the response Yoshi! And thank you for listening to our feedback! I'm sure you will come up with something good