Quote Originally Posted by kamikrazy View Post
This doesn't fix the problem, this just needlessly punishes the players who got houses
They never said that a purge was supposed to fix the problem. This has always been billed as the first step in fixing the problem. I honestly don't see how it punishes anyone. If you're gone from your estate for that long (especially in the case of Free Companies), you aren't using it and it's unfair to just camp on such a limited resource. If anything, people being able to just unsubscribe and hold onto their housing properties indefinitely is needlessly punishing those who don't have housing already.

Quote Originally Posted by kamikrazy View Post
So you have to always be subscribed or else your 50 million gil investment that took you months of work goes up in smoke? Should they also implement a 45 day timer where your gil starts vanishing from your inventory because other players might need it? And should they also take away your retainer's levels and gear as well? What about your character name after 45 days? How about they also make your gear go down ilevel by 50 for every 45 days you are offline?
None of the things that you describe here are finite resources. Housing is. There's no correlation to be drawn here.