Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

[Elim]

The timer is reasonable now. Before they proposed 30 days, which meant house owners couldn't even unsub for one month. Now everyone has some breathing room. As a personal house owner I'm happy with the system.

It's too bad the system isn't retroactive though. I know two houses that have been abandoned since personal housing launched. And my FC still wants to upgrade to a large house. Oh well. I hope they add new wards. Because this system wont be noticed for awhile.

[Youkulm]

The timer is reasonable now. Before they proposed 30 days, which meant house owners couldn't even unsub for one month. Now everyone has some breathing room. As a personal house owner I'm happy with the system.

It's too bad the system isn't retroactive though. I know two houses that have been abandoned since personal housing launched. And my FC still wants to upgrade to a large house. Oh well. I hope they add new wards. Because this system wont be noticed for awhile.

they do intend to add more wards around the time they add ishgard housing which won't be for a while.

Answer to your question was actually above your post haha. See below

The amount of misinformation on this forum is seriously beyond me.

From: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...808-18-2015%29

1:43:01
Q: I really love the scenery in the new areas. Do you have plans to introduce a housing ward in Ishgard?
A: We’ll first implement a feature to automatically relinquish unused houses in order to increase the availability of land. In parallel, we’re also working on quality of life improvements for the extended wards. Once these are complete, we’re move onto optimizing the servers so we can increase the amount of furnishings that can be placed in houses. Without taking care of these first, players won’t be able to transfer their houses without relinquishing their existing house first, and this also creates a situation where it leaves an unused house. We'll be progressing with this one step at a time, and will be gradually applying changes from Patch 3.1 onwards. The Dragonsong War hasn't ended yet, so it’ll take some time before we can add a housing ward in Ishgard.

There you have it. They're doing one thing at a time, and trying to fix more problems than they're creating.

[Seryl199]

The timer is reasonable now. Before they proposed 30 days, which meant house owners couldn't even unsub for one month. Now everyone has some breathing room. As a personal house owner I'm happy with the system.

It's too bad the system isn't retroactive though. I know two houses that have been abandoned since personal housing launched. And my FC still wants to upgrade to a large house. Oh well. I hope they add new wards. Because this system wont be noticed for awhile.

I just took a short break from FFXIV for the first time to play other games in the interim of 3.1, but came back a couple weeks early on a whim. Had I waited until 3.1 dropped, it would have been into the 45 days inactivity period, and I would have flipped to find out my house was demolished based on a retroactive system. They're extending a small courtesy to returning players, the least they can do after a long patch cycle. Don't fret, the players that aren't coming back will remain inactive and their estates reclaimed.

[Seryl199]

Its not retroactive tho, it starts counting on patch day.

Do people not read the whole info note?

Right. I was replying to the quoted poster who commented on a retroactive system. Did you not read the quote?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Right. I was replying to the quoted poster who commented on a retroactive system. Did you not read the quote?

Nah, i gave up reading most of this, so you can ignore my post lol. theres been too much false info getting spread around today. My bad \o/

[Elim]

Right. I was replying to the quoted poster who commented on a retroactive system. Did you not read the quote?

I understand why they didn't make it retroactive. I'm sure the forum would be absolutely filled with rage if it was. But, not to sound cold, I still wish it was. Not only can I confirm two abandoned houses, but I can walk through most subdivs and run out of fingers counting houses that have no decorations(or very little) and haven't had any for months and months. Now we get to watch them sit there for even longer -- but it's not a big deal. At some point houses will start to free up, new wards will be added and people will be happy. I'm a bit more optimistic about this system than others. Because I'm sure houses will free up fairly often. People clearly buy houses and then regret it, or stop caring shortly after.