Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

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They could have added instanced housing plots.

They could have added apartments in the city states.

They could have done what LOTRO did and create an expanded system of plots that would actually function in a way where everyone will get one.

This system does nothing. Instead of only .5% of the playerbase on a server getting to do housing content at all, everyone will have to take turns being the .5%, except not a year from now when the .5% are all people who will stay subscribed forever and will never relinquish their property. This is nothing but an underhanded and subversive way of keeping subscribers while appearing to be improving the game. It's insulting that they think people are this stupid, and its even worse if people fall for it.

Their housing system is fundamentally broken, fixing that is what needs to be done. This does absolutely nothing for anyone except SE's subscriptions.

[MistakeNot]

They could have added instanced housing plots.

They could have added apartments in the city states.

They could have done what LOTRO did and create an expanded system of plots that would actually function in a way where everyone will get one.

LOTRO did have severe problems with the more populated servers running out of free houses until they introduced a similar model where people could lose their house if they did not pay the upkeep.
After introducing that (and waiting the required number of days) a lot of houses became available again.