Stop Advertising Housing as a Feature

[KizuyaKatogami]

I think more of the frustration comes from realizing what the actual demand for houses is compared to what we had been seeing when placard camping was involved.

"Oh there were usually only about 20 players clustered around a placard for a small, that's not that bad... what? why are there 80 entries per small now?? The demand wasn't that high before." Truth is the demand was there but few players had the luxury of being able to placard camp. Making things more difficult to obtain doesn't reduce demand; it reduces the number able to participate effectively.

Did SE overdo it with the FC wards? Yes, but they also wanted to make certain FCs are able to get a house because of the FC content specific to a house (workshops, grade 3 actions). The problem is those houses now sitting vacant because FCs lacking houses should now have one (even if it's not the specific plot/size they may want).

Empty houses only serve to frustrate the community that meets the requirements to purchase but are not allowed to.


I'm not aware of any such promise but then there also aren't any big prices attached to apartments or houses right now. SE did away with the big prices a long time ago once they decided they had bled as much of the legacy gil out of the world economies as they could.

If you think 3 million gil is a lot of gil, I don't know what to say. There are plenty of ways to make gil. You just need to take advantage of them.

Correct me if i’m wrong but a large is a few dozen mil. Not just 3 mil lmao.

[Rangiswimming]

Correct me if i’m wrong but a large is a few dozen mil. Not just 3 mil lmao.

3 mil is the price of the lowest tiered small.
A Large house is somewhere between 47 mil to 50 mil lol

[Shibi]

What about when they promised there wouldn’t be any big prices attached to housing?

Housing was originally up to 625,000,000 for a large depending on your server and the grade. So it's been reduced a lot.

[Eraden]

Housing was originally up to 625,000,000 for a large depending on your server and the grade. So it's been reduced a lot.

Whoa, that's INSANE! Was there a lot of excess Gil back in those days, Shibi?

[TwistedTea]

Whoa, that's INSANE! Was there a lot of excess Gil back in those days, Shibi?

It wasn't so much about excess gil back then. But housing was initially designed as FC only. Housing was something entire FCs were supposed to grind out for.

SE had also stated that personal houses would be separate from FC houses.

However, SE did not deliver and mixed personal/FC houses.

We all know how that turned out.

Lowering the price of something highly in-demand while the gil faucets have grown significantly without any actual significant gil sinks

[DarkCherry]

Wow. Well said. I'll stop complaining now. Housing is still frustrating, but what "grind" isn't? This makes me look at it with a different perspective. And when I finally get a house, it will be all the more rewarding. Thanks Silverbane!!

[Jojoya]

Whoa, that's INSANE! Was there a lot of excess Gil back in those days, Shibi?

There was a crazy amount of excess gil back then on the legacy servers (less so on the newer servers that were added when ARR was released). Players who had kept playing throughout the 1.x cycle ended up insanely rich.

Prices on some of the newer worlds weren't quite so bad though still more than we pay now. 4-5 million for a small, 15-18.75 million for a medium, 50-62.5 million for a large. Here are the patch notes that spelled out house prices by world:

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