Time to end the theft of home and bots - GIVE MORE WARDS-!

[Awha]

Not sound like an ass, but 40m is not a lot, this game throws gil at the players it is not hard to make gil, time consuming? To a degree I could see, but far from hard.

[C000kiemonster]

You aren't placing 400 personal items in an instanced dungeon that needs to be permanently saved. All housing information has to be saved on your character or the server and if suddenly everyone is carrying all this extra data on them 24/7, it's going to tax the servers.

$5 a month premium solves that then (2.5x the retainer fee)

[JohnSpawnVFX]

$5 a month premium solves that then (2.5x the retainer fee)

Armchair developing solves everything (in their minds).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

40 million gil was not the cost of a 2.0 relic. More like 2.5 mil.

I did 3 of them, I should know. Never had anywhere close to 40mil in 2.0. Or 3.0 for that matter.

[Fyffer]

City of Heroes had instanced bases that could very large and complex, if you were creative. They were meant to be for groups, but anyone could make a SG of one with a little help.

If a game that old could pull it off, I don't see why this one can't.

[Missbone]

just start the demo timer again and reduce the time to 2 weeks. If you are not able to log in for 2 minutes to visit your house, its your fault lol.

[Eldevern]

...

Materias were pretty expensive on Cerberus (more than 50k each, sometimes more than 250k). There were even people complaning legacy players were manipulating prices (without proof but the complaints were real).

If you don't believe me, just watch Reddit threads from that time 2014-2015 about the relic, you will see people who talk about 30-50M (between the HQ crafted weapon, the HQ crafted items and the two full step for BiS materias, the final cost was plain crazy).

[Deceptus]

Or, y'know only allow one house per service account or one house per realm.

[Awha]

Or, y'know only allow one house per service account or one house per realm.

They tried that 1 personal and 1 fc per account / server. The FC limtion did not last that long.

[MsMisato]

That is a pretty fake achievement since :
3. it keeps out some FCs and players who would have merit to have a house.

I don't know. FCs had their moment to make housing happened as the wards were originally designed for FCs but I am going to place equal blame on SE as the initial pricing structure for the wards was ridiculous making hard for even small FCS. Even then after the pricing was adjusted to entice an FC to buy a plot, no one bought into it. As I recall I believe the wards took off at the beginning individual housing was to be implemented later on. After SE opened it to individual purchasing, I remember coming back a couple of months later even after that and there were plots galore. I think the wards really took off to after the release of HW and even then it was easier to get plots because demo was pretty effective when it was left on. Hopefully when the timers are turned back on there will be a whole of lot plots like last May when they turned it back on.

That being said, having the demo timers serves a purpose. Its to help curb RMT for plots. I hate the click the placard with a passion. I spent countless hours but still I got 3 homes on 3 different servers it really does boil down to RNG Jesus favoring you. My second home, I got last July. I happen to see a lot for sale in Mist and walked up to it and bought it right away no one around. Only happened to me once out of the other times. But as for the 1st and 2nd time, I notice the plots become available between 4 am and 6:00 am PST thats my experience.

I am hoping the wards that will be added in Ishgard will help alleviate some of the housing pressures in the game the game. It would be a nice surprisedif it was instance housing of some sort like everyone wants.

But here is a glimpse of initial housing prices when it first launched. Mind you it was based on the amount of Gil circulating around the server but it was insane in pricing and truly only the people in swimming Gil like Scrooge McDuck could buy it lol. This was on Gilgamesh at the time:

Fifth-class Plot Fourth-class Plot Third-class Plot Second-class Plot First-class Plot
Small 8,000,000 8,500,000 9,000,000 9,800,000 10,000,000
Medium 30,000,000 31,875,000 33,750,000 35,625,000 37,500,000
Large 100,000,000 106,250,000 112,500,000 118,750,000 125,000,000

Edit
sorry for the crap copy paste for the original prices. Here is alike to the initial prices it's at the bottom of the patch notes 2.1 lol

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...7af43f3c43828a