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

[chocomaid]

I really wish everyone would stop acting like this is going to apply to personal housing. I feel like you and many of the others are people who bought FC houses and are treating them like personal houses. We were CLEARLY told personal housing would come in 6 months or so after FC housing. The housing in game now is supposed to be for a group of people, and as such, if no one in that group logs in for a set amount of time it SHOULD vanish. If you saved and spent millions buying a house now that you feel is "YOURS" you bought the wrong type of housing, and thats only your fault.

Its not about adding new wards, not about server capacity etc its about having an issues a year, 2 years or 5 years down the road where people have quit the game and the housing is sitting there taking up space in a ward were maybe 2 or 3 active companies are.

Its to keep the wards more "alive" and active, nothing more.

Again, people have repeatedly put forth suggestions that work for both sides. But you clearly ignored those didn't you? People have suggested that a consolation deed can be introduced so the absentee FC won't lose any gil/furnishings that they worked hard for, just the location. Those places would still be kept "alive" using that method, old houses would be forfeit, new FCs can buy. And people are not saying it will definitely happen to personal housing, it's a precedent to it. If they can do it to FC housing, then they can do it to personal housing. Your logic of housing being "alive" should work on personal housing too right? You wouldn't want to live in a ward of personal houses that is not active.

That sucks, and I understand not wanting to pay for a subscription that won't be used. But no one else in your FC could devote 3-4 minutes over 35 days to log in?

Imagine a group of 8 IRL friends that wanted to try FFXIV, they got to raiding and experienced the content that they wanted to see. Those 8 people then realise that there won't be any new content for a good 2-3 months, so they find a new game with the intent of going back to FFXIV when new content is up. Do you think it's wise to pay a month or two subscription to just go check a house so it won't disappear?