Housing plots need rent. Sound horrible? Consider these facts:

[Madjames]

Well if something happened in real life that forced you away for an extended time, would it be okay to lose everything you worked hard saving up for? I'm sorry but I would likly leave the game after that. That is a LOT of wasted gill, not just for the plot but for the decor as well. To lose all that time and effort in a GAME just because something forces you away is harsh.

I still say only release the plot if your sub has run out for 6+ months. That is to help account for life issues getting in the way. Shoot when my system got ruined due to a storm caving in part of the cealing, I had to go with out for nearly five months, having to deal with affording the roof repairs, THEN getting a new pc. That was a few years ago yes, but life happens. I was a wow player back then, main healer for a hard core raiding guild. Shoot Wrath was just coming out, I was well behind everyone else. Should they have kicked me for it for not being around? No because punishing someone for life isn't right.

YES it is ok to lose stuff. I have been playing mmorpg's since September 1997 when I was 10. I worked as a gardener for neighbors to afford the 10 dollars a month. Then wow came out and again, never missed a payment.

Then I got married and never missed the $30 a month payment for wow. Switched to FF11 and never missed the 30 dollars there, or in SWTOR and now Here.

Saying stuff like "Wahh IRL stuff happened and I cant pay 15 dollars a month for 6 months or a year, It isnt FAIR to lose my house!"

Life is not fair. Perhaps I have been lucky. Perhaps I just have been fortunate enough in my life to be paying for an MMORPG subscription for 18 years, STRAIGHT. Or perhaps some of you so called adults are CHOOSING not to pay your sub and instead putting it towards some other activity or hobby. For the first 7 years it was $10 a month, then it was $15, and for the past 10 years it has been $30 a month. I have NEVER missed a sub payment, not even when I went on vacation for 2-3 weeks straight because I had Family doing things for me and keeping my businesses in the game going while I was away. I was 10 years OLD and I had the motivation to make SURE MY SUB NEVER RAN OUT, EVER!!!

I have NO sympathy for people saying it isnt fair because sorry to tell you, life is not fair. To keep something as limited as housing is from people who are actually HERE and supporting the game and paying their subscription is a stupid practice.

I lost my home and countless rares and server rares in Ultima Online because my Castle decayed. Why? Because I quit playing the game and canceled my subscription to move to World of warcraft. Your talking about a 50 Million Castle for the plot alone. I had roughly 200 million gold or more in just rare items, not counting how many million gold I had in 1 mil vouchers in my house chest OR how many one of a kind server only items that were worth 500+ million gold a piece.

Do you honestly expect me to be able to go back to UO now and have all of my stuff back? Do you honestly believe that all of the rare and one of a kind items should be mine still if I went back?

I was One of the richest people in the whole game world wide at the time. I can say with full confidence that I would NOT expect to have all of my stuff back if I went back. Life is not fair and it was MY decision to leave and NOT support the game in any way. Why should I have this self entitlement regarding a game that I am not paying for AT ALL? Why shouldn't other people who actually ARE supporting the game have my castle and everything inside of it due to it decaying and my stuff falling on the ground?

The point here is that it IS fair if you stop your sub, PERIOD. Limited in game things such as housing should ALWAYS go to paying subscribers over someone who quits the game even for a month ALWAYS! Ultima Online did it and your house decayed after 30 days. The system KEPT people subscribing and worked great to get all of the people who do leave the game to actually lose their plar in order for a PAYING CUSTOMER to get a house, and use all of its features!

Do not sit there and give me this bullshit excuse of "I cant pay for the game for 6 months due to this or that happening IRL" If you cant scrap together $15 a month when your an adult yet a 10 year old kid made sure for the next 18 YEARS (This is up to and including today) his sub was paid for, you seriously have something wrong in your life and perhaps you shouldn't even be playing the game in the first place.