Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

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Originally Posted by Dree-Elle

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Originally Posted by Toguro

Its a shame because if your gaming PC or PS4 breaks and you need to send it away to be repaired(My PS3 broke once, it took 2 1/2 months for it to come back) and it takes over 45 days for your game to come back... Dat house gone.

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I guess I can thank my lucky stars that I decided to knuckle down and go for the 6-month auto-renewing sub, then.

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It wouldn't help in that situation, though. If you can't get into the game, you cannot enter your house and will lose it. Whether you still have a sub or not is irrelevant.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

It wouldn't help in that situation, though. If you can't get into the game, you cannot enter your house and will lose it. Whether you still have a sub or not is irrelevant.

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So many people without either family or friends in this thread...

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Originally Posted by Toguro

Its a shame because if your gaming PC or PS4 breaks and you need to send it away to be repaired(My PS3 broke once, it took 2 1/2 months for it to come back) and it takes over 45 days for your game to come back... Dat house gone.

No control either.

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Build your own pc, if anything breaks, buy replacement part, less than 2 weeks later and you're good to go.

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Originally Posted by Gralna

Build your own pc, if anything breaks, buy replacement part, less than 2 weeks later and you're good to go.

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I personally do not own a gaming PC. I use PS4. However, I only included it because something similar happened to one of my friends and they were gone for 66 days. Without notice. Turned out something really bad happened to their PC.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

2 and a half months?! Mine took 2 weeks...

Not that I use it much anymore.

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Wow... lucky. Maybe the service was different back when I had it. Or because the place was in California and I'm at the other side of the country. I dunno. They did fix it though. They fixed it good....real good.

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Originally Posted by Toguro

Its a shame because if your gaming PC or PS4 breaks and you need to send it away to be repaired(My PS3 broke once, it took 2 1/2 months for it to come back) and it takes over 45 days for your game to come back... Dat house gone.

No control either.

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And you mean to say you will have no access to a computer capable of logging into FFXIV for essentially five minutes over a 45 day span? In this day and age, I find that incredibly difficult to believe. Just surveying my own options I can: ask a friend to log in for me, swap my mother's laptop or use one of my old models that's been collecting dust for years. Even a completely garbage laptop with no graphics card will suffice. The lag would be immense, but you'll manage.

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Originally Posted by Dree-Elle

So many people without either family or friends in this thread...

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Giving out your login credentials is against the ToS, though. No exceptions.

Oh here's an ... interesting detail, on the "For New Players" website:

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/p...g_other_pc.jpg

They actually highlight housing as a feature, grouped together with things like crafting or Free Companies. Euhm... yeah, reclamation is definitely a drop in the ocean for something like this.

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Oh here's an ... interesting detail, on the "For New Players" website:

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/p...g_other_pc.jpg

They actually highlight housing as a feature, grouped together with things like crafting or Free Companies. Euhm... yeah, reclamation is definitely a drop in the ocean for something like this.

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Yeah, I saw that the other day and was a little peeved. If it's not available to 95% of players, don't advertise it to new players, most of which expect it upon hitting level 20 like other MMOs.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

And you mean to say you will have no access to a computer capable of logging into FFXIV for essentially five minutes over a 45 day span? In this day and age, I find that incredibly difficult to believe. Just surveying my own options I can: ask a friend to log in for me, swap my mother's laptop or use one of my old models that's been collecting dust for years. Even a completely garbage laptop with no graphics card will suffice. The lag would be immense, but you'll manage.

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The options are limited for PS3/4 players. To log on with a PC, they would have to buy the game just to install it and use it. Additionally, your friend with a PC can't log onto your account if you play on PS3/4, without you still buying that PC copy. It really isn't as easy as people think it is to log on from multiple devices to this game, which limits options.

There are still possibilities, just not as many as may normally be open in a typical MMO.

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Originally Posted by Crimsonwolf3400

The options are limited for PS3/4 players. To log on with a PC, they would have to buy the game just to install it and use it. Additionally, your friend with a PC can't log onto your account if you play on PS3/4, without you still buying that PC copy. It really isn't as easy as people think it is to log on from multiple devices to this game, which limits options.

There are still possibilities, just not as many as may normally be open in a typical MMO.

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This is very true, however, everyone still can't have their own personal house, so the chances of this are extremely slim. I'm pretty sure a "My ps4 busted and they are taking forever to get it fixed and I don't want to lose my house." Might be a good time to call Square support and let them know what is up. Who knows ... maybe they could help with that.

I still stand firm that most people are not out of the game that long.

Don't get me wrong I think there is definitely some issues with the housing thing... and I think some things could be done better.