Yoshi-P responds in the Housing Open Letter threadFollow

And if you add things only 1 percent of the population can afford they will go missing for even longer till they dont want to log on again... Cant make a game where only one percent of the people can have stuff.. Then you have people like HonkeyKong29 and IKickYoDog with their elitism think because we dont play the game like them and have lots of money WE should go suck eggs.. Non of this is good for the game.. The last week I have known more people who are starting to think this game is not going to do well and are thinking about quitting. Even some talking about going back to FFXI.. Wana know how we know this move is bad? Watch SE will change this proving who was right.. 90 percent of the people are complaining.. Too many people to upset it is bad for the game. Even people who were defending this game no matter what are saying this is a bad thing and defending the game less and less.. You may have a million and a half PLAYING now but the hard part is holding on to those people ....






Edited, Dec 19th 2013 4:38pm by Nashred

Edited, Dec 19th 2013 4:39pm by Nashred

I think part of the problem has been the perception that FC housing would primarily be a status symbol for the rest of Eorzea to gawk at in wonder and awe. That somehow, having housing is primarily to impress other players.

It is not.

I have the sense (and feel this way myself) that FC housing was a place for FC members to gather and hang out and have fun in each other's company. It has nothing to do with what other people see, it was for us, for our FC (or you for yours). I saw it as our little part of Eorzea that we could call our own.

And while maybe we wouldn't have invested a small county's GDP in gil in buying it, we would have invested time in improving it and making it a home for our FC members. We would have invested time, and laughter and memories into it that would be far more valuable to me than gil.

That SE sees this as a monetary exchange instead of a means of strength game community ties is the real disappointment that I am feeling at this time.