Housing Price Adjustment (12/26/2013)

[Eanae]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...3f080a4e02d706

As mentioned previously on the official forums ( http://sqex.to/-e5 ), the pricing of land for legacy Worlds will be adjusted in incremental steps to match the pricing of the following non-legacy Worlds (Hereafter referred to as Group A):

Bahamut／Behemoth／Cactuar／Carbuncle／Chocobo ／Diabolos／Fenrir／Garuda／Gilgamesh／Ifrit

[Kiarax]

Most important part imo:

Furthermore, the final price of land across all Worlds will be re-evaluated at some point in the latter half of January. Please be advised that the pricing of land on all Worlds will be subject to change even after the above adjustments have been made.

[Katlan]

About time Yoshi-P got his head out of his ass and realized making context that 5% of the population gets to enjoy is retarded and the stupidest mmo design ever

[Sigmakan]

Not sure how other legacy servers are, but not a single plot has been purchased on Hyperion.

I'm assuming most are waiting for the significant price cuts.

[Tyrath]

Guess we'll all be waiting till the later half of January.

[Raldo]

Guess we'll all be waiting till the later half of next year.

That's probably more accurate, unless they really knock the prices down on January's adjustment.

[Arximiro]

Not sure how other legacy servers are, but not a single plot has been purchased on Hyperion.

I'm assuming most are waiting for the significant price cuts.

There is a medium house and a small house on Sargatanas. That is it as of last night.

[Tyrath]

That's probably more accurate, unless they really knock the prices down on January's adjustment.

Um, I guess if you're going for the large house but even at current prices my smallish FC of 40~ people can afford a medium by January. Im guessing we're just gonna wait for any possible readjustment before spending all that money though.

[Raldo]

Whoops, I was looking at the wrong subset of prices.

Did anyone ever figure out what the "classes" meant anyway? 1st~5th class plots. I didn't bother to walk around the plots to see if it was obvious.

[Ksandra]

About time Yoshi-P got his head out of his ass and realized making context that 5% of the population gets to enjoy is retarded and the stupidest mmo design ever

I side with the people that believe this all came down to shitting hardware. They started off saying anytime a zone filled up a new one would be created. Then when they released it magically it's 5 zones capped. Basically: SE can't make infinite instances and they were trying to figure out to make sure all the houses didn't get bought up in a day.

They never should have released it, but it must have been something last minute that they couldn't fixed and were probably worried how pissed people would be about not releasing it at all considering how hyped up they made it.

Regardless, they are still retarded that the game has been out this long at this point and they still can't get their hardware straight.

[Katlan]

They were concerned all houses would be bought by a few FC's.... But is it that hard to code for a single FC to only be able to purchase a single piece of land? And then if they want to upgrade that FC can do either a private sale or sell it back to the server.

[Raldo]

I was under the impression that you could only buy one house per FC until some future update...?

[Ksandra]

But is it that hard to code for a single FC to only be able to purchase a single piece of land? And then if they want to upgrade that FC can do either a private sale or sell it back to the server.

I am pretty sure that's how it already works. At least, I got bored and talked to the npc there that has all the info on it, and it certainly sounds that way.

Either way, ya I agree FCs should only get one house, and if they don't that's also retarded.

But really, they can't make infinite instances? How is this even possible? FFXI had better coding than this game.

[Katlan]

They have to be able to make more instances. Like if no large houses are available then can't tell ppl "tough shit"

[Ksandra]

They have to be able to make more instances.

They said they were working on it. Which again goes back to my post saying this really has to be coming down to shitty hardware. They've had instance issues from day one.

[Xanthe]

You do realize more instances require more physical servers, right? If demand exceeds supply, they will set up more. The five existing wards are just the initial supply. Case in point from the 2.1 patch notes:

Each residential district is divided into a number of identical wards. Even if the plot of land you desire has already been purchased in a certain ward, it may still be available in another.

Additional wards will be added as required based on fluctuations in the population and economy of each World.
* The price of newly added plots will be based on the starting prices for that World.

Nowhere does it state anything about a static number of wards. It's a waste of resources to have servers up and running for properties that are unneeded. Yes, you could argue that the existing wards are a waste of space considering the low number of buyers at present, but as prices are adjusted, they will fill up. At the current rates, property serves as an easy way to target gilbuyers. I know for a fact they are doing this, as there is at least one first-class large plot that sold and went vacant in Mist on Hyperion. Its price is set higher than the rest of the equivalent plots available, and the only way that can happen is if a plot is bought and rescinded. No one in their right mind would spend ~290 million gil on a plot and give it up willingly.

[Lucavi]

I side with the people that believe this all came down to shitting hardware. They started off saying anytime a zone filled up a new one would be created. Then when they released it magically it's 5 zones capped. Basically: SE can't make infinite instances and they were trying to figure out to make sure all the houses didn't get bought up in a day.

They never should have released it, but it must have been something last minute that they couldn't fixed and were probably worried how pissed people would be about not releasing it at all considering how hyped up they made it.

Regardless, they are still retarded that the game has been out this long at this point and they still can't get their hardware straight.

They're Japanese, trying to work with PCs. I expected nothing less. Call me what you will, but the programing history is there.

That said, there are 5 plots purchased on Gilgamesh thus far. 1 Medium and 4 smalls.

[Seravi Edalborez]

At the current rates, property serves as an easy way to target gilbuyers. I know for a fact they are doing this, as there is at least one first-class large plot that sold and went vacant in Mist on Hyperion. Its price is set higher than the rest of the equivalent plots available, and the only way that can happen is if a plot is bought and rescinded. No one in their right mind would spend ~290 million gil on a plot and give it up willingly.

In Mist? I checked a few minutes ago and prices for every plot are the same between wards.

[Ksandra]

You do realize more instances require more physical servers, right? If demand exceeds supply, they will set up more. The five existing wards are just the initial supply. Case in point from the 2.1 patch notes:
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you didn't say anything that I already didn't say, chief. I said they were looking into increasing instances. Look, you go to any housing system in any game, and if you want to buy a house, you fucking buy the house. There has never been a supply and demand issue in any of them. Did ffxi stop allowing new characters because of mog houses? Please. Even in EQ2 there would be like a hundred people owning an instance house, and they never capped.

poor excuse is a poor excuse.

[Raldo]

Huge difference between an XI mog house and this type of housing, but otherwise yeah. It's dumb.