Gil and 2.1Follow

Well that's the problem.. As it get farther way from the launch of the houses people start going why? They start to find other things that the money is better for etc. Like that in real life.. Run out and buy and have buyers remorse.. If I dont impulse buy a item eventually I move on, forget about it, find something better to spend money on, or just dont buy once the excitement disappears.

The question is when is personal housing being released and once it is will people even care about FC housing?. Will it be cheap?... Will it hurt markets even more?





Edited, Jan 9th 2014 11:04am by Nashred

Why did you spend money on crafting gear?

You mean (gasp) people want to play the game instead of letting it be a job? What slackers!

Any gil raising method that can somehow raise that amount each day in a very short time is probably only working because few players are doing it. As more players start to use those gil raising techniques, the less effective they become. That is based simply on the nature of those activities.

Any gil raising activity that's not subject to that are ones that simply take time. You either get gil directly from the game from it's various gil sources, or you get it from other players by spending your time doing something that they don't want to spend their time doing. And on top of that, you have to not spend the gil you made, which further limits what aspects of the game you can choose to do.

People don't want to play a game simply to pay a front loaded mortgage. They want to play. I don't know why that seems like an unreasonable goal, or an unreasonable complaint.

While true, will it sell? I have had a 50k piece up on the market boards, as the only person having it, ever since the first day of 2.1. Still there. Just because you can make it, can put it up and are one of the few people who did wont mean that there's a market for it. There has to be what? two houses on your server total? I understand what you're saying, but just because you -can- list them wont mean anyone actually has the house, the gil or the desire to buy one @_@;

I don't understand why people have to be ***** about this. Not everyone is good at making gill, also a lot of people just don't have the time to spend. Yeah I can make about 15k a day, but that's just though selling treasure maps, and the prices on those have been steadily dropping, last night on ultros they were down to 10k, from 13k a few days ago. I am a pretty casual player, I only have a 50 BLM and 50 mining, so my options are limited. I'm not complaining that I cant make a million gill, but its obviously not so simple as some make it out to be.

Yeah I should probably level GSM or something, but then that's just more gill invested into that and less I'm making over all, and the way people make it sound, there really isn't any money in professions anyway so why bother.

The only reason I leveled mining was I assumed with the addition of housing raw materials might jump in price, that obviously didn't pan out. I was going to level BOT right after that but decided that might just be a waste of time now, will probably still do that also though.

Yeah I can do beast man dailies, but as an ex-WoW player I'm just a little burnt on the whole, "Lets run the same quests everyday for a month for a mount reward" at this point in my life, I play this game to have fun and relax after work, not have a second job. You can say what you want, but logging in everyday and having a "to do" list every night is like doing chores, I'd rather be running dungeons or leveling another class aka having fun.
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Then add to the fact that I won't always want to be just farming gill, last night I logged on and my FC was forming an Ultima HM group. We ran that for about an hour, didn't clear it but came pretty close and everyone got a chance to learn the fight. But you could look at that as "I just wasted an hour I could have been making gill". I don't think that way, but some of you make it sound like that's the way it is.

Initially, I wasn't to thrilled by the idea of housing, but after seeing some of the houses and running around the zone, I think it would be pretty nice to have a house for our FC to hang out it. And no matter what any of you say, SE did not prepare anyone for the actually costs involved. But it is what it is, and there is no reason to belittle someone for being upset about it just cause they didn't have the time to invest that you do. Obviously, the majority of us have accepted it, and are saving up for a house, but it doesn't mean we have to be happy about it at the same time

Its already been said that this is just a stall tactic on their part, as the servers went ready or whatever, and I really think this is true. But not even just because of the sever issue, but for the whole game overall. Not everyone rushed to 50 and there is always more people picking this game up, it just feels to me that they did more to help with leveling and the initial end game (as far as distributing gear between the 50 dungeons, adding the DR, adding CT) then anything else. Honestly at this point I wish I hadn't hit 50 so soon, I would much rather be a fresh 50 now, then before 2.1 when the only real thing to do was run WP over and over again.

I'm anxious to see where this game is in about 4 months, after the next patch and when more people are able to afford housing, the added turns to coil, and whatever else they throw at us.

There are also a lot of people who just aren't interested in investing that much time for an FC. It's not that the game is bad or anything, but it's just not for everyone. We've reached the point where the novelty has worn off and people are starting to sift out.

I think the main point here is that this feature is something that should have been designed differently. Housing is something that the majority of both types of players(hardcore and casual) will want and it was a poor decision on SE's part to make it so hard to obtain. If it's a matter of not having servers ready to go then don't implement it yet. Not sure I remember the count on how many times they could have applied that philosophy and saved themselves headache.

I don't currently play XIV, but when I did I wasn't online every day. Gamers these days I think are juggling more titles at once and are splitting their time between several games. SE basing their model on what players make daily isn't realistic to begin with...

I have a PS4 with AC IV in it and just can't get into it, so it's going back to gamefly soon. Thief comes out next month though, and I expect that may pull me away for a time :)

Otherwise, I pretty much only play this. My play time is usually very limited though, so when I do log in, I have to very focused.

I have a Pskin map up for 12k.... looks like it didn't sell if they're down to 10 :(

I certainly don't have the time today that I did to play XI when I was at my most hardcore. Heck, for that year I wasn't even working at all.

I don't think I will again until I'm retired and we're on the PS8.

Same here. I actually left FFXI for a while though but came back to it when the economy got bad because I got cut to working 4 day weeks then every other week.. I need something to do.. I will say I am playing FFXIV right now as much as I played FFXI but I didn't in the summer and fall. Once spring hits I will cut way back.. I am only playing this much because it is winter.