Predatory Urgency and Theft

The 35-day timer to retrieve your items has no functional or performance purpose. The items stored inside could very well be sitting untouched in an inventory.

The need for demolition is a gameplay solution to free up housing lots, not a player choice. The reason a house gets demolished is often out of the player’s control. In those cases specifically, I’d consider it predatory to urge players to pay money - not only for a subscription, but also for extra storage - just to secure their items. The reasons for wanting to secure items can be sentimental or monetary, such as paid items from the Mog Station, trophies, or timed rewards.

The argument that these are digital goods and therefore hold no value doesn’t hold up, and it’s negligible when the alternative is simply removing the limit - a limit that doesn’t serve any definitive purpose, like easing server load. Every player who quits keeps their retainers, inventories, progress, and bags intact; nothing is deleted, and it all remains untouched. I’d argue that a text list of items wouldn’t make a meaningful difference there.

To prevent abuse, the limit could be that only one house’s worth of items is stored at a time, so people don’t use it as deep cold storage.

This solution would require changing the system, but it would remove the extortion-like “pay us or lose all your stuff” situation that’s currently happening.

If there are any concerns, I’m happy to hear them. I hope my post wasn’t too strongly worded. I wish you all a nice day.

A simple solution to prevent players from using NPCs as a permanent extended inventory, because there is paid options, yes. Any argues about servers limitations pointless, because SE able to keep this data in retainter's pockets, means they would be able to hold it in any other place, but they don't want to losing money. They are also will be happy if you buy this items again on a mogshop <3

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Originally Posted by dasjano

I hope my post wasn’t too strongly worded.

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"Predatory"
"Theft"
"extortion"

A bit inflammatory, perhaps...

Yeah - I agree. I was probably emotional over the topic regardless of how much I wanted to make a reasonable point.
In my opinion though, I do think it's predatory though, especially the longer you play and the more invested you are. So I'll stand behind that one.

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Originally Posted by dasjano

To prevent abuse, the limit could be that only one house’s worth of items is stored at a time, so people don’t use it as deep cold storage.

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You can have two houses linked to your account, one personal and one FC. Which one will be the"only one"? Also, its not that hard to get at least small house(300+300 items) somewhere in unpopular place, to made a deep cold storage you mentioned.

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Originally Posted by dasjano

This solution would require changing the system, but it would remove the extortion-like “pay us or lose all your stuff” situation that’s currently happening.

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I'd certainly be happy if they did everything as you suggested, but are you sure your displeasure outweighs the company's profit from extortion? It would obviously impact their "paid storage".

It would be good if they at least kept paid items, somewhere in a mail box, for example....Oh, what am I talking about? This kind of thing only exist in mobile gacha trash games.