Personal Housing demo for active player.

This morning I got an email from SE, 3 day notice of my demolition of my personal house. My character is active with a 6 month subscription paid in advance. I haven\\'t been inactive for 45 days.

This morning I checked the timers tab in game and I saw the demo message. According to the email if you log in the timer will reset, it didn\\'t. I\\'ve tried logging out and in to see if it resets, removed my tenant but still the message is there. I\\'ve sent in a ticket to support.

Has this happened to anyone else?

You have to walk INTO the house to stop/reset the timer. Logging in to the game isn't enough.

They probably did it like this to make sure that people are actually using the houses.

use something inside the house, anything, food, retainer bell, a vendor etc etc

I did, used the bell and rearranged some furniture.

Seems like it might be a trend: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...gh_was_active/

Well this is terrifying lol, no matter what they coming for your houses! Keep us updated and hopefully it works out for you

If your having the Demo issue. Enter your home bring up the timers and take a screenshot then email it too customer support with instructions to check the date of the image in the properties section. Not sure how much this will help but it will show them that you entered the house and the timer did not reset. If anyone get a screen shot with the properties section open showing the date along with the image, then post said image too the bug section for SE too see.

Time to level an fc to put my personal house on....

Update: Last night got a canned response from GM call referring me to the forums for support. I immediately sent in another angrier one, few minutes later I got a reply that I may be experiencing a bug.. referring me to the forum once again. I never got to talk to a GM.

This morning I logged in and the demolition message was still there. I kicked all the tenants, removed and replaced all the furniture, changed light settings, left my friends' homes.

The message is now gone. I'm not sure what did it but it definitely was one of those things. I don't think GMs did anything. I did take screenshots just in case.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

This is terrible news and a bug that needs to get squashed asap. I would be devastated as I'm sure any of us would. I wonder if it's only the half dozen cases mentioned or if it's wider spread.

What about you actually use the house? If you never visit it in 45 days and you only "move in to ring the bell and move stuff around", then you shouldnt have a house. That simple.

It is rediculous that many people look for a house for their FC and people like you who never even visit the house think they are entitled to keep it.

He's paying a subscription, he's probably got a real life. I'd say if he's paying for the game, paid for the house, he's within his rights to keep said house. Especially since this thread is addressing the BUG that an ACTIVE PLAYER can lose their house...? It's not entitlement to keep something you worked for and are following the guidelines to keep.

You best figure that shit out now. I just lost my house because of this. A glitch or something I don't know but I got a house with me and my friend, my friend bought it for me he was in and out of the house constantly but the timer still ticked down and lost it. No chance on getting it back since the community isn't that forgiving.

Either literally every person is lying about actually stepping foot in a personal house that they themselves owned or they are giving up on this matter far too easily. At the absolute worst the people that this happens to should get 100% of all gil and every single item they had in the house back. Anything less than that would be unacceptable.

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Originally Posted by Lillycookie

What about you actually use the house? If you never visit it in 45 days and you only "move in to ring the bell and move stuff around", then you shouldnt have a house. That simple.

It is rediculous that many people look for a house for their FC and people like you who never even visit the house think they are entitled to keep it.

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Okay I have a huge problem with this. Saying someone should lose their house because they only go in every 45 days to ring the bell and move the furnishings around a little.... they are following the rules set forth by SE, you enter your house once every 45 days to reset the timer, that is what they said you have to do the keep your house, and that is how it should be.

Look, the housing features are super limited as is. A patch comes out, what? Once ever freaking 3 - 4 months (which is 90 - 120 days) where they actually implement new furnishings or housing features. I only use my house realistically once every patch because you know what, new furnishings come out and I really like to decorate with new furnishings. I have invested millions of gil on furnishings and I love my house, and I am probably more invested in the housing system then a lot of people. Are you telling me I should lose my house because the majority of the patch (the 90-120 days) I don't use my house constantly even though I follow the rules set forth by SE which is you enter your house before 45 days? Even though there's no new content associated with housing for 120 days? That's BS if that's what you are saying.

Look, I understand you are probably frustrated with the housing system, which you should be. There are many things about the housing system that is wrong and that they should fix, but telling people that you shouldn't have a house because you don't go use it constantly for whatever reason, like personal housing the only thing you can really do in there is decorate it, or I guess role-play in it if that's your sort of thing. Other features you can get with personal housing are in other parts of the game, its just convenient to have them all in a centralized place. The only real benefit you may get is gardening but most people are to lazy to even keep up with gardening in the first place to the point where I almost never see a garden at this point. Not arguing about FC airships, I don't think FC houses and Personal Houses should have shared the same system in the first place.

And I hope this is not the case that people are losing their houses after checking it, following the rules that SE set forth. Housing is one of the few things I really really enjoy about this game. I am super paranoid about losing my house and I check it once a month (realistically once every 2 weeks) to make sure I do not lose it. If people really are losing their houses after checking it, that's a huge problem.

I have had my house for a few months it was a gift from a friend who knew I fiddle with my housing daily. I even have 2 dedicated retainers for the furnishings. Well I had a hurricane come through and had to take time away luckily my FC mates alerted me to the demo status (because SE didnt send me a single email) and I got on moved a few things around and accessed my summoning bell in the house. That should have reset the timer that was 3 weeks ago I am now able to play more and get back into the swing of things and I come back to find my house is gone someone else owns I was standing at the gate of my old house that how shitty it was to log into it I put in a ticket not response.

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Originally Posted by Haurchefant_G

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If it is as you described and that there is some bug with the House not detecting someone using it and not resetting the kaboom-trigger, that is really bad. I would be really pissed if I was losing my house not because of me, but because of some bug (T.T)

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Originally Posted by Haurchefant_G

it was a gift from a friend

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When you say gift from a friend, do you mean they gave you the money to buy it, or they bought it and added you to it? If they bought it then they're the owner and the only one who gets emailed (or can stop the demolition timer. It also has to be with that same charater as well (in case they bought it with an alt for example...)

They had the plot gave it up for me and gave me the gil to buy it. It was mine I personally owned it

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Originally Posted by Chocolys

If it is as you described and that there is some bug with the House not detecting someone using it and not resetting the kaboom-trigger, that is really bad. I would be really pissed if I was losing my house not because of me, but because of some bug (T.T)

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I am mad I was going to spend my winter break playing and resubbing but whats the point if this kind of thing happens.

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Originally Posted by Jesse

This morning I logged in and the demolition message was still there. I kicked all the tenants, removed and replaced all the furniture, changed light settings, left my friends' homes.

The message is now gone. I'm not sure what did it but it definitely was one of those things. I don't think GMs did anything. I did take screenshots just in case.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

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MM have you checked with your friends if one of their house is on demo as well?
maybe the bug is showing some people the timer of friends houses getting demo'ed because your they are tenants?

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Originally Posted by Malackai

maybe the bug is showing some people the timer of friends houses getting demo'ed because your they are tenants?

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I can personally confirm that tenants do see the timers of the house(s) they are are on (after it's past 30 days and it shows up in the list), although as expected tenants can't reset the timer themselves.

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Originally Posted by Ashiee

...I only use my house realistically once every patch because you know what, new furnishings come out and I really like to decorate with new furnishings....I love my house, and I am probably more invested in the housing system then a lot of people. ...

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To preface, I do own a house. This is not sour grapes speaking.

While I don't agree with how Lillycookie worded her complaint, it is valid. If you love housing, you do spend time in it. I'm typically in mine at LEAST once a day, often more. My husband's, too. I use them for gardening, and hubby's is our base of operations, with a full compliment of vendors, my "glam station" (Armoire, Crystal Bell, and Summoning Bell), and the Unending Journey. With all that, we never have to go to the Inns, or hunt down menders and basic vendors. I spend a lot of time crafting and gardening there, and we do have friends over. Our houses see a lot of use. I can't imagine only really using it once per patch.

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Originally Posted by Sylfaein

While I don't agree with how Lillycookie worded her complaint, it is valid. If you love housing, you do spend time in it. I'm typically in mine at LEAST once a day, often more.

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Just to because I don't spend a lot of time in my house doesn't mean that I don't love my house. I love decorating and I get to have a frenzy when new furnishings are out every patch. I have about 1000 pieces of furnishings on an alternative characters just to decorate. The day to day functions like hanging out in it, having friends over, gardening ect is not really something that I do or am interested in... any practical features that houses provide (vendors, summoning bell) I just use my FC house for since it's closer to a market board then my personal house. I'm just saying, people enjoy content in different ways, and my way of enjoying personal housing is that I like to go on a frenzy once a patch on decorating with new furnishings(and I also go to lots of random houses to check out what other people did). Does that make me like housing any less then you do? Idk how much you like it but like I said it's one of the only reasons I continue to play this game. My real issue with Lillycookie's post was that it seemed like they were just saying that the OP shouldn't have a house even though they were following the rules that SE put in. IMO that is not right, regardless of what he/she is doing with their house.

But main issue we should all be focusing on is that if people are following the rules that SE has put in place, people shouldn't be losing there houses. If they are losing their house even after following those rules, then that is a real problem and that needs to get fixed.

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Originally Posted by Sylfaein

To preface, I do own a house. This is not sour grapes speaking.

While I don't agree with how Lillycookie worded her complaint, it is valid. If you love housing, you do spend time in it. I'm typically in mine at LEAST once a day, often more. My husband's, too. I use them for gardening, and hubby's is our base of operations, with a full compliment of vendors, my "glam station" (Armoire, Crystal Bell, and Summoning Bell), and the Unending Journey. With all that, we never have to go to the Inns, or hunt down menders and basic vendors. I spend a lot of time crafting and gardening there, and we do have friends over. Our houses see a lot of use. I can't imagine only really using it once per patch.

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Well woopdie doo, some of us like to go out into the game, have FC houses to visit, etc. A house isn't a ball and chain. Ill do with it as I please.

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Originally Posted by Chevronone

Well woopdie doo, some of us like to go out into the game, have FC houses to visit, etc. A house isn't a ball and chain. Ill do with it as I please.

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No need to be snarky, dude, I'm just saying she has a valid gripe. I go out into the game, have an FC house to visit, etc, too, but my house is my castle. I can't imagine having it and only rarely visiting it, and I can imagine it must be incredibly frustrating for someone who desperately wants one to actually get some use out of, to watch them sit vacant.

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Originally Posted by Sylfaein

No need to be snarky, dude, I'm just saying she has a valid gripe. I go out into the game, have an FC house to visit, etc, too, but my house is my castle. I can't imagine having it and only rarely visiting it, and I can imagine it must be incredibly frustrating for someone who desperately wants one to actually get some use out of, to watch them sit vacant.

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It's impossible to say that certain ones are sitting vacant though. Many of my neighbors play during hours I'm not on. There's an off chance that I might see them on a weekend or holiday but that's about it. One of my neighbors spent 2 months waiting to run into me because they wanted me to be part of their FC. I was at my house daily gardening.

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Originally Posted by Acilith

He's paying a subscription, he's probably got a real life.

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"He's paying a subscription, he doesn't have to learn a rotation."

"He's paying a subscription, he doesn't have to change his stance while tanking."

"He's paying a subscription, he can cast Blizzard all he wants".

Sorry, but I couldn't resist :p

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Originally Posted by Lillycookie

What about you actually use the house? If you never visit it in 45 days and you only "move in to ring the bell and move stuff around", then you shouldnt have a house. That simple.

It is rediculous that many people look for a house for their FC and people like you who never even visit the house think they are entitled to keep it.

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Hmmm what are you supposed to do with it? Unless we are supposed to have a tea party and play with our calca/brina dolls. I have my house decorated and only actually enter it to make sure the timer doesn't starts. Now yes I can redecorate later but not going to be doing it every 30 days. Everything else that I do daily is outside the house and really no need to ever enter it.

Also the timer is stupid anyway I shouldn't be forced to turn up to my house in the time period anyway. I am an active player and on every day 8+ hours. If SE wants us to enter the house more then give us a reason to and yes like others said if I redecorate it will be at least every 90 - 120 days. If they can't actually make content for it then it should be tied to my account and the timer should reset every time I pay for the game.

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Originally Posted by Jesse

This morning I got an email from SE, 3 day notice of my demolition of my personal house. My character is active with a 6 month subscription paid in advance. I haven\\'t been inactive for 45 days.

This morning I checked the timers tab in game and I saw the demo message. According to the email if you log in the timer will reset, it didn\\'t. I\\'ve tried logging out and in to see if it resets, removed my tenant but still the message is there. I\\'ve sent in a ticket to support.

Has this happened to anyone else?

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I'm glad that an "active player" is using a limited resource so much....

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

Also the timer is stupid anyway I shouldn't be forced to turn up to my house in the time period anyway. I am an active player and on every day 8+ hours.

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Until they make housing available to all their subscribers, they need that timer to open the plots back up. This bug however needs to get squashed as it's affecting players that have actively entered the house before the timer has reached its end and still lost the house. There was a bug report submitted just the other day by another player affected by this (unfortunately not accepted because it wasn't in the inconvenient bug form submission layout), so it appears to be an ongoing issue.

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Originally Posted by Qojon

"He's paying a subscription, he doesn't have to learn a rotation."

"He's paying a subscription, he doesn't have to change his stance while tanking."

"He's paying a subscription, he can cast Blizzard all he wants".

Sorry, but I couldn't resist :p

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LOL it's ok. You would be impressed to see how many people only pay a subscription to RP on Balmung. Not even to play the game, or to keep a house. Just to RP. I think a sub to keep a house is pretty valid.

This demolition notice happened with my private house since i mostly use my fc house and have my private one for gardening etc and rarely enter inside. The moment i went inside, i got a message/announcement that the demolition procedure has been cancelled. So i can confirm that the only thing you need to do is enter physically into your house to stop the demolition.

As a precaution try to enter your house once per week or so to avoid things like this happening.