If no one access a FC house in 35 Days you lose everything! Coming Patch 2.3 ><

[Tandy]

4 years from now I dont want 19 wards where only 1/4 of each one is populated by an active house. Granted 35 days might be a bit early but its still more than fair. If you seriously think it should be left for all time even if no one is using it...thats not how instanced housing should be ran.

This is not how I expect nor want them to treat personal housing, but for FC housing its just fine with me.

[Dyvid]

Like I said at the start This isn't going to effect very many Free Companies. But I believe it will effect a few small FCs like mine. Yes I get the reasoning behind it is to free up space for other Free Companies to get a chance at buying plots, But it is being handled the wrong way.

I hate to break it too you but in my opinion two people don't count as an FC. 10 to 20 is a small FC. Further more I find it hard to believe that the entire FC would take a 2 to 3 month break at the same time.

[Pandastirfry]

You should read up on how valid MMO ToSes actually are in court.

Umm.. I have and to this date... Every legal challenge to EULAs and ToS's has... Failed.

[Jynx]

I don't see a problem with this. Then again I remember Ultima Online when your house was condemned it would then in 48 hours litteraly explode with all your items on the ground where your house once stood.

Made NM camping seem tame.

[Miburo]

4 years from now I dont want 19 wards where only 1/4 of each one is populated by an active house. Granted 35 days might be a bit early but its still more than fair. If you seriously think it should be left for all time even if no one is using it...thats not how instanced housing should be ran.

This is not how I expect nor want them to treat personal housing, but for FC housing its just fine with me.

That's valid, I suppose. Maybe 3 months at the lowest, with compensation of some kind would be reasonable. Or, you know, any number of other options other than take a little over a month break with your bros and lose a multi-million gil investment without any compensation. How is it that a random thread in the general discussion forum can produce better options than whatever the dudes in charge propose? It's crazy.

I hate to break it too you but in my opinion two people don't count as an FC. 10 to 20 is a small FC. Further more I find it hard to believe that the entire FC would take a 2 to 3 month break at the same time.

I hate to break it to you, but your opinion is objectively wrong. A Free Company is clearly defined in game, and it can have a small number of people in it. And if you really can't believe a bunch of close friends couldn't take a break from the game (To, for example, play a different game together), then that's another personal problem for you.

"Hey guys, in my opinion pizza isn't edible. Pretend my stance is valid please."

[Tandy]

I hate to break it to you, but your opinion is objectively wrong. A Free Company is clearly defined in game, and it can have a small number of people in it. And if you really can't believe a bunch of close friends couldn't take a break from the game (To, for example, play a different game together), then that's another personal problem for you.

"Hey guys, in my opinion pizza isn't edible. Pretend my stance is valid please."

I understand there are small FC's who may all play ONLY together and cancel subs together etc, but that is what? maybe 1% of the population? I know it sucks, but the housing has always been about the whole company....and a FC should be at least active enough to have 1 person log in once a month...its not too much to ask for in all honesty.

Heck if you only have 3 people ask a friend to make an alt who will log in once and month and reset the timer or something.

[Miburo]

I understand there are small FC's who may all play ONLY together and cancel subs together etc, but that is what? maybe 1% of the population? I know it sucks, but the housing has always been about the whole company....and a FC should be at least active enough to have 1 person log in once a month...its not too much to ask for in all honesty.

Heck if you only have 3 people ask a friend to make an alt who will log in once and month and reset the timer or something.

Is it too much to ask to have the timer be at least 3 months instead? Isn't that also not too much to ask for, while being a more reasonable amount of time for something that involves destroying such a large in-game investment?

[Seif]

What SE giveth se taketh away.

Considering how hard some things are to get for the house this seems really bad.

Why can't they just invest in more server power?!
This is a massive company and yet with all the server excuses you'd think all of xiv is hosted on some girl's laptop in a japanese manga cafe basement.

[Tandy]

Is it too much to ask to have the timer be at least 3 months instead? Isn't that also not too much to ask for, while being a more reasonable amount of time for something that involves destroying such a large in-game investment?

While I personally dont mind 30 days or 3 months I think no matter what, even if they said 1 year someone would still ask for it to be longer. While 3 months might be a more "attractive" option long term, it will still make someone mad...and then wheres the cut off? Its not feasible to leave them all forever, I think everyone deep down knows that.

Honestly I expect them to say 60 days or so when its all finalized, but that's just my prediction.

[Welsper59]

I understand there are small FC's who may all play ONLY together and cancel subs together etc, but that is what? maybe 1% of the population? I know it sucks, but the housing has always been about the whole company....and a FC should be at least active enough to have 1 person log in once a month...its not too much to ask for in all honesty.

Heck if you only have 3 people ask a friend to make an alt who will log in once and month and reset the timer or something.

I think it's just more along the lines that 35 days seems too quick of a time period. I doubt most against the 35 days thing think that 1 year is a good length of time to remove unused houses (or to never remove them, for that matter.

2 months (60 days) might be a better period of time to wait before destroying an FC's entire investment (not just the house, but everything inside, afterall). I personally think 60 days is a little long, but when you think about an alternative like 45 or 50 days, it just seems a little unusual of a number in the situation. Plus, even 35 days is fairly long for today's crowd to wait on any potential overflow of housing demand. We want things now! When? Now? That's too long, it needs to be faster than "now". Impatience can't distinguish variance of time. That being said, it really wouldn't make too great of a difference for people to wait on, compared to any complete elimination of some folks' investment.

Honestly, I think they chose that number mostly for the immediate future (2.3 release), to both notify people who are on breaks to start their subs again, and to help free up server space from those who won't. After the rush of personal housing (and potentially buying time to maybe get more servers), they'll probably extend the 35 day limit.