With regards to the possible upcoming housing relinquishments. . . . .

[Azrael_Ajora]

Is there a way to predetermine which houses will most likely be relinquished due to inactivity, etc? Or will each relinquishment just basically involve a situation in which we have to wait for the update that includes this change, forcing potential interested buyers to scramble around looking within each ward on a race to get to the free company house that would like to purchase the most before anyone else does?

My apologies in advance, I have yet to own a house, so I am not very knowledgeable of the specifics with regards to such things. Any and all information that could help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[AnnietheCat]

I doubt there will be any indication before the house just *poofs* away. I'm sure that would create some sort of problem, and creating a social problem is definitely on the list of things they want to avoid. You just have to look at the ward lists daily and hope you spot something. The best bet, though, is to count the days from the launch of 3.1 and check back in however many days the inactivity timer determines. There should be tons of plots available(based on server population, granted), so there shouldn't be /too/ much scrambling hopefully. Also, the transfer system should help open up a bunch of plots too, since people will be able to leave their 2nd and 3rd choices for their original 1st choice without penalty(presumably). I hope this helps, though I doubt it because I have zero clue about how this will work ^__^

[JeniLinsky]

The bottom line is, we don't have enough information on how they're going to implement this to answer the question.

[Blitzace]

just wondering, Lets say people paid 50-60M+ for a house and due them not being able to play or just want a break from the game they are removing their houses? Am i getting this right

[Syrehn]

just wondering, Lets say people paid 50-60M+ for a house and due them not being able to play or just want a break from the game they are removing their houses? Am i getting this right

Essentially, yes this is correct unless SE implements a refund tactic (doubtful). However, we have no idea what the timer/rules for this removal system are going to be. We don't know if it's 30 days, 60 days, half a year etc. We also don't know if it will affect current subs that are "inactive" not logging in or just un-subs or if you have to step foot inside your house in x amount of days. We also don't know if they're going to backdate the decay timer (if it is a decay timer at all). We'rejust going to have to wait for SE to release more info as anything we put here is just speculation.

[dspguy]

Let's say their criteria is: "If you aren't subbed for X months, you lose your house." That seems pretty reasonable. Doesn't really matter if you've paid 50M for a house or not. You aren't playing the game for some period of time you lose it.

One way they could take it is what LOTRO did. The house itself isn't that expensive, but you pay a weekly upkeep and you can pay out for about 2-3 months or something. Once the upkeep expires by another month or so, you lose the house. The contents are stored on an NPC if you do come back, but the plot itself is gone.

[Apocrypher]

Personally, I'm expecting a 90-day timer from the launch of the relinquishing system (whether that be in 3.1 or not) that starts once servers goes live after the update and the system auto-tags accounts that a) have property ownership marked in the account, & b) were unsubbed for any amount of time upon the update going live. It would be more than a little extreme for them to go so far as to make the decay timer be retroactive, as that'd just cause a huuuge rush to claim the freshly-vacated properties (on Brynhildr, that'd easily be at least 40% of the plots currently installed based on Lodestone-checks).

As for lack of reliable info on the system itself, we're gonna be getting more 3.1 news during their Live Letter at TGS in less than 2 weeks so please look forward to it.

[Letbluevannback]

<.< I hope it's retroactive, honestly. All those quitters have been keeping me waiting for their unused house to vanish a long time already.

[Syanis]

<.< I hope it's retroactive, honestly. All those quitters have been keeping me waiting for their unused house to vanish a long time already.

Hope so also. I also however hope they limit how many houses an account can have as I know a few extremely rich people with multiple lots and a couple of them hoping to cash in by buying up some of the prime lots and then *reselling* them for a considerable profit. There are a number of people out there with hundreds of millions out there who just want to be super wealthy ingame. I've even had a person try and sell me their house for real money...

[Xerius]

<.< I hope it's retroactive, honestly. All those quitters have been keeping me waiting for their unused house to vanish a long time already.

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.