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

[Nymeria2x]

I agree they have to implement some sort of check on this. I have a friend who has a in game house but he is on active military duty and won't be able to log in for 6 months. It would suck for him to lose his house just cause he is not able to log on.

This right here is exactly why SE should not be doing the reclaim system. There are just too many variables they aren't taking into account or just plain not caring about. People have lives outside of the game and sometimes crap happens. People get deployed, get sick, injured, have unexpected expenses forcing them to do without internet, or just plain get burnt out for awhile and need to take a break. I know several people who take breaks from the game while in school so they only log in for holidays and summer. The houses are really expensive and with barely over 1000 per server they are a rare commodity. If someone spends the gil they worked their butts off for on a house and then they can't log in for whatever reason, they shouldn't be punished. Imagine if you were hospitalized for a couple months or deployed and when you came home and you're finally able to play your game, you log in to find all your stuff has been reset because according to the devs you were obviously not using it. You'd loose your mind on SE if they did that. Well reclaiming a house that costs millions of gil is about the same as yanking someone's progress. We worked hard for that house and because of real life we're punished by having that work stripped from us. Honestly the only time I could understand reclaiming a house is if the toon or FC was deleted. Just inactive is not a good enough excuse for taking away someone's stuff, especially when you don't even know why they're inactive. SE should have thought it through before implementing the player housing. They purposefully made it so only about 1% of the player base can get a house and now its backfiring. The steps they are taking won't fix it, this is only going to blow up in their faces as a PR nightmare. I really hope a Dev reads this and relays it back to the rest of SE.