Personal housing time limit?

[Amiaze]

Perhaps they should make personal housing function like additional retainers in-game. If your subscription isn't renewed, you lose it. I'm not sure how they would implement this since houses are purchased in-game, but the issue I can see with taking it away from people who don't log in is having people log in once a month, do nothing, and then log out just to keep their house. This also doesn't take multiple characters into consideration. Should the person log in with every character that owns a house, or just log in period?

Returning all of the Gil spent on a sold house also will likely not work. That opens the possibility of players simply logging in and immediately repurchasing their lot/purchasing another lot and sitting on it. It would be fair to return it, yes, but what of people who try to cheat the system?


Edit:

Housing situation in game really sucks , but i glad that SE didnt add time limits for housing . Sometimes i have to work 2~3 months w/o PC and access to game , and it will be too bad if once i back from work and my house gone ;(

This is why I think it should be subscription-based rather than log-in based. It would stink to pay for a game that you cannot play at the time, but at least it would offer some solution to a lack of housing while also offering a way for players with houses to keep theirs. I'm curious to see how Ishgardian housing wards sell if/when we get them.