(09-22-2014, 03:28 PM)Kage Wrote: It's not directly quotable but someone mentioned talking to Yoshi-P during TGS. They asked about personal housing and the insinuation or gist of the comments were that housing are achievements of sorts.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...ost2453083
Quote:F: Before 2.4 comes out, you released 2.38… “I canot buy a house!! Lend me some money Yoshida!!â€
Y: Sorry about that… There’s a lot of people who think the pricing is too high. At first we made it so they cost roughly the same as free company housing. To people for whom this was a big problem, we are very sorry. People have been asking we we put the FC housing and private housing in the same place. To explain, we didn’t want FC housing to be completely replaced with private housing. We thought if we introduced totally separate (uninstanced) private housing, we would end up with people totally abandoning the FC houses and never interacting with one another. In 2.4 we’ll be doubling the available wards. And moving forward we will continue to increase the number of wards. One more point: A lot of people wanted instanced housing. Since there are limited amounts of instance servers it would be impossible for people to save their personal houses if they were all instanced. (???) If it’s instanced it ends up being something entirely unlike housing. Please wait a bit longer for more options.
Kage, this was from your other link for TGS where I found to be pretty interesting information to at least let fans know that he isn't literally ignoring people but is trying his best. This personal housing thing JUST came out.Â
But yeah what that statement said above, I agree with him a lot.