The Free Trial and Housing - or: Please no

[RicaRuin]

So, we all know that the Free Trial is expanded to Level 60 and Heavensward Patch 3.56. What about the consumers of the Free Trial and Housing, though?

The same restrictions as before are placed on the Free Trial when it comes to the new version, included Marketboard Interaction and FCs. However, there is no rule for Housing so far, as a level 35 character could never fulfill the conditions to buy one.

Now, with the more generous level cap, a player on the Free Trial could potentially meet all the conditions to buy a house. I hope they get a restriction for that as well.

Because, let's face it, Free Trial players adding to the high demand of houses would add fuel to the fire. Not to mention the inevitable storm if a paying player loses out on a house against a free player.

Just... food for thoughts, I guess.

[Brightamethyst]

IIRC the trial also caps gil at 300k. A trial player could never afford a house in the first place.

[RicaRuin]

Ah, I totally forgot about the Gil limitation. Well, that's a non-existent problem, then.

[Seraphor]

Well with raising the level, it would make sense to also raise the Gil cap too. 300k doesn't seem like quite enough for level 60.
Potentially up to 1m could be suitable, but this would still not be enough for a housing plot as the minimum price is 1,488,000g.

[Roda]

Well with raising the level, it would make sense to also raise the Gil cap too. 300k doesn't seem like quite enough for level 60.
Potentially up to 1m could be suitable, but this would still not be enough for a housing plot as the minimum price is 1,488,000g.

I agree with you, but also any higher and they might be able to suck up all the apartment slots instead.
Hard limitations should be put in case (as futureproofing)



(or they could revamp housing to make the shortage go away)

[Limonia]

When things like the new free trial limit get announced, I always automatically assume the developers know what they are doing. They would never overlook something as big as trial accounts being able to buy houses, unless they wish for them to be able to.
So they will either make it so you can't buy houses/apartments, through restrictions or just through the gil cap (even if that could be somewhat unsafe maybe), or they will outright allow trial players to buy them. But I don't think they will. Why would they even do that?

[Roda]

When things like the new free trial limit get announced, I always automatically assume the developers know what they are doing. They would never overlook something as big as trial accounts being able to buy houses, unless they wish for them to be able to.

Ungarmax.

Never assume.

[Shougun]

Unfortunate that they cannot lift the free company limitation without messing with houses, two expansions worth of content and no free company is a bit of a long time lol.

[wereotter]

Unfortunate that they cannot lift the free company limitation without messing with houses, two expansions worth of content and no free company is a bit of a long time lol.

Likely intentional, make it free to play through Heavensward, but give you incentives to buy the game before the free trial is complete

[Fhaerron]

Well gil aside.


They can just make it that trial accounts cannot buy a house.


Really simple.