Reclaim land from inactive accounts post 3.0?

[Dree-Elle]

You already forfeit leadership of a Free Company after 35 days, why should housing be any different? Play the game, or pay the price.

Our original Free Company leader has been logged out for 273 days and counting. We have confirmation from people who know him in real life that he will never be returning to the game. He has been replaced thrice over, and yet, all of the real estate he bought with a handful of alts solely for gardening purposes lies empty, bits and bytes rotting away.

How the hell is this even approaching fair?

ETA: Since people don't seem to get what I'm saying, let me put it this way: In real life, if you do not pay the rent, the landlord will evict you. The monthly subscription that you pay is your rent. It helps pay for upkeep on servers which have limited capacity for things such as housing. If you are not subscribed, the landlord (in this case, Square Enix) has every right to evict you from your virtual house so that a paying tenant can move in and help pay for server upkeep.

Adding more housing is not the solution; there is no room for it, and no matter how many wards they add, it will never be enough. Square Enix is not the world's largest video game publisher, they most likely have to make do with what they have.

Instanced housing is also not the answer. I, as well as many others, enjoy having our homes accessible for people to walk into and look around, to be a part of an actual neighborhood. Instanced housing cannot provide this. In larger FCs with many, many rooms in their halls, I have no patience to scroll through dozens of pages to find a single member's room (which aren't even in alphabetical order). Making an "instance portal" from, oh, say, Lavender Beds, leading to hundreds upon hundreds of "instanced houses" would make the situation even worse.

Saying one has the "right" to keep virtual belongngs forever while not even playing the game, no matter what the excuse is, just reeks of entitlement. If I were to take a sudden unexpected "hiatus" from the game and lost my FC and my house, oh well. Them's the breaks. I knew what I was getting into when i signed up, and I know that one day, the servers will be turned off for good. It's a virtual world, with virtual money, virtual housing, virtual life. The fact that some people don't seem to be able to distinguish this just makes me sad.

*And yes, occasionally I do pop off here about stuff pertaining to the game. So what? I know when I'm fighting a losing battle, which is to say, constantly. So I'm out. Hopefully someone running the game finally actually does something about this situation. But believe me when I say that when they do, it will most likely piss someone/everyone off.