(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/threads/193890-Latest-comment-from-Yoshida-regarding-Housing-Inventory-space-issue?p=2453083&viewfull=1#post2453083

Quote:F: Before 2.4 comes out, you released 2.38… “I canot buy a house!! Lend me some money Yoshida!!”
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.

(09-22-2014, 03:34 PM)J Wrote: 'Go and play Archeage' isn't a viable option, especially when the MMO itself is completely different to the style of FFXIV. As others have also outlined player housing isn't some weird desire exclusive to role-players. There's a very high demand for it outside of the role-playing community and that is precisely why many modern MMO's launch with it as a feature right away or one intended to be added at some point in the game's future.

(09-22-2014, 03:39 PM)Aldotsk Wrote: While I agree with you, but the patch -just- came out. It was small and it was gone within 2 hours. But why can't we just be patient for everything? Do you need the housing really that bad right away? This is like iPhone 6 thing too. Do you REALLY need it right away for first day of launch? 

(09-22-2014, 03:45 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:

(09-22-2014, 03:39 PM)Aldotsk Wrote: While I agree with you, but the patch -just- came out. It was small and it was gone within 2 hours. But why can't we just be patient for everything? Do you need the housing really that bad right away? This is like iPhone 6 thing too. Do you REALLY need it right away for first day of launch? 

I wanted to agree with you, but I will flat-out murder someone if I'm not playing Smash on Oct3.

Disclaimer: Not really gonna murder anybody. Probably.

(09-22-2014, 03:45 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:

(09-22-2014, 03:39 PM)Aldotsk Wrote: While I agree with you, but the patch -just- came out. It was small and it was gone within 2 hours. But why can't we just be patient for everything? Do you need the housing really that bad right away? This is like iPhone 6 thing too. Do you REALLY need it right away for first day of launch? 

I wanted to agree with you, but I will flat-out murder someone if I'm not playing Smash on Oct3.

Disclaimer: Not really gonna murder anybody. Probably.

(09-22-2014, 03:52 PM)Kellach Woods Wrote: and i thought i needed help.

Really though, I just don't like that they locked certain cool game features behind it, and I think spreading these features out to non-housing would probably make housing much more of the status symbol they seek without making it feel necessary.

(09-22-2014, 04:09 PM)Clover Wrote: We'll have to agree to disagree here, as I still don't think Yoshida has lied, and neither do I think that the current house system is bad.

As a side note, Archeage has limited land as well. Also, people can plant their freaking gardens just at the entrance of your house (call it first hand experience). So I'll take FFXIV's house system any day. I'm in love with the neighbourhoods and I love how we get our own space. They just need to add many more wards and I'll be fully happy.

(09-22-2014, 03:39 PM)Aldotsk Wrote: While I agree with you, but the patch -just- came out. It was small and it was gone within 2 hours. But why can't we just be patient for everything? Do you need the housing really that bad right away? This is like iPhone 6 thing too. Do you REALLY need it right away for first day of launch? 

Everything will eventually come up as time passes by, the housing prices will go down and there will be plenty of plots available in the future. It requires patience and time, this is just like 1st phase of personalxFC housing wards. It was estimated to be limited.

(09-22-2014, 03:58 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: I'd only agree if the things locked were more than vanity. Chocobo raising is hardly a fast way to level them, colors are strictly vanity, and while there's some gil to be made by gardening...

There'd be no money in gardening if everyone was gardening. I'm on board with the people playing content and saving their money getting a kickback for it.

(09-22-2014, 03:09 PM)Aldotsk Wrote: Again, it is not something to strangle about. 

If housing or creating castle is such a deal for any terms, Archeage has better option for that. But I played Archeage since Korean open beta and also through this NA version, I don't really like it.

So Yoshida lied. But how long are we going to drag this down and get mad about it? He said he'll double the wards from current ones. Just wait. Also he is right 100% about one thing: why should people have cheaper personal house when it's obvious that people will never go to free company house should everyone can afford large ones and invite their friends to hang out?

And no matter how angry we maybe , there are things that won't change. So ranting a lot about it in this forum especially won't give attention to square Enix. It's a waste of breath. In the end , it just comes down to playing other games, like ArcheAge. Heck, even blade and soul doesn't even have personal room or housing. Or even PSO2 has housing. It has a terrible room customization. 

I feel that paying for small plot for 4-6 m and 30m for medium is perfectly fair in my opinion.