Quote Originally Posted by tocsin View Post
I would be in favor of implementing a weekly/monthly maintenance fee, of, lets say, around 100k/small, 500k/medium, and 1 mil/large, per week in order to keep your house after purchasing.
I wouldn't object to a maintenance fee (provided you can pay up 6 months to a year in advance), but those numbers are a couple orders of magnitude beyond being reasonable. I certainly don't make anywhere near 100k in a week. It's pushing it as to whether I'd make that much in a month, though there have occasionally been months when I have. But when I do, there's generally other things I want to spend it on, too. A maintenance fee isn't for squeezing every gil out of people that they can get. It's for ensuring that people are still interested in having the house.

Knock a couple zeros off those numbers, let people pay the fee in advance (at least 6 months ahead) and set up an escrow for housing items and a re-purchase voucher, so people can get a house back again, then it would be reasonable to foreclose on houses for not keeping up with the fees. It would get back houses, both from people who quit the game (as the other proposed inactivity rules would), and also from those who have lost interest in the housing feature even if they still play regularly.