Time on House removal/reclaming is way to short! (private houseing)

[Youkulm]

Sorry but it could be 90 days + and people would still complain.

45 days is fine it gives people the time of 1 month sub + some breathing room.. not to mention you get 3 notices...

Sorry if you can't make it in game ( once, only once ) by then move over for active players and FCs who want to participate in currently exclusive content.

There is no excuse or reason that warrents withholding content from other players because you want to keep space you are not using... You. Are. Inactive. Period.

Harsh? Yes. Band Aid to an already broken system? Yes. However, this is necessary. A majority of the housing wards are ghost towns and no one is ever in them while there are hundreds of FCs that have been waiting for a house for over a year.

45 days is perfect. Like i said. It's a one month sub and some extra breathing room.

[Maddonious]

Sorry but it could be 90 days + and people would still complain.

45 days is fine it gives people the time of 1 month sub + some breathing room.. not to mention you get 3 notices...

Sorry if you can't make it in game ( once, only once ) by then move over for active players and FCs who want to participate in currently exclusive content.

Not see the main issue tho? What if I spent months building up my house then had to step out do to overplaying and becoming exhausted, I want to take a 2 month break to cram in things i've missed the past year bingeing on this game.

That 45 day limit forces you to pay a sub each month-ish just so you can keep your house you spent 10m/40m/60m on> (like I said, extortion). No other MMO does that!

I'm a very active player and have been since launch but when fatigue comes in and I need a break that means i'll lose millions just like that If I don't get back on when they say? They need to raise the limit to 90 days cause that house took more then a month to build up and i'll be dammed if I lose it in a fraction of the time.

The thing is some gamers like variety, they can't just play the same game each day every month till it dies out so they have to play it in bursts.

[Kinseykinz]

Not see the main issue tho? What if I spent months building up my house then had to step out do to overplaying and becoming exhausted, I want to take a 2 month break to cram in things i've missed the past year bingeing on this game.

That 45 day limit forces you to pay a sub each month-ish just so you can keep your house you spent 10m/40m/60m on> (like I said, extortion). No other MMO does that!

I'm a very active player and have been since launch but when fatigue comes in and I need a break that means i'll lose millions just like that If I don't get back on when they say? They need to raise the limit to 90 days cause that house took more then a month to build up and i'll be dammed if I lose it in a fraction of the time.

The thing is some gamers like variety, they can't just play the same game each day every month till it dies out so they have to play it in bursts.

You get all your non-rare stuff+ 80% of your gil back. More than fair.

Another way of looking at it: If you took a 3 month break and didn't have a house, you wouldn't expect your gear to still be current or have value right? And every piece of gear you buy in game, once used=no money back right? So really, they are being kind in giving you back as much as they are with housing when you took a break.

Heck, you could even take advantage of this new system to get your gil back from a house if you ever wanted to upgrade or needed the gil for something. Yes, it'd mean not using your home for 45 days, and you'd have to wait...but people could purposefully use this as a way of regaining much of their investment to move up, or invest in their character in a different way.


And this of course, only would happen to you if you stopped playing/using the house for 3+ months. It'd also only happen if no one else you share the home with accesses it in the same time. (Being able to share personal homes w/ up to 5 people is inc....so really, if you know you need to go on an extended break, allow a trusted friend who's going to continue to play access to your home...even if it's on their alt=problem solved)

This is the fairest way for SE to make sure all resources are used by paying customers, limit the need for extra wards, and yet, still give more people the option for homes. Also, this is step 1 of their multiple step housing system fix/upgrade. But there is no reason for SE to waste resources on non paying customers. It's bad business actually.

[Maddonious]

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Losing my house I put millions apon millions of gil into compared to outdated Armour is a bad comparison. It would make more sense if I came back into the game with no Armour due to my absence to equal what the housing situation would do to an individual.

Outdated Armour would at least keep me close to people and I could catch up in a week of dungeon farming, the house however that took me time and money to get would not be so easy to get back. If you read my OP then you would also realize that the 80% of refund does not cover the primal/coil/tower items you may have put in your house that are worth more then the house, it would just cover simple housing decor from vendors and cheap crafting.

Sharing a house tho is not confirmed if it would fix this issue. Currently the official posting just says "owner" of the private house, not the co-owners. Would help but still doesn't fix this broken system.

[Niwashi]

You get all your non-rare stuff+ 80% of your gil back.

Not if you take a three month break. If you're away from the game for 80 days, everything you had in the house is deleted.

[KaLenna]

I can only agree with the OP and others who feel that this is a SE money-spinner even though they are already making a shed-load from subs in any case.

To others who feel this is legit let me ask you this: Would you buy a game that deleted your save file after 45 days? Because that's what this does. We risk losing months of game progress if we decide not to play for a while. Even if you have completed all quests and have lv60 across the board, you are made to cough-up, even if there is nothing new for you to do.

While there may be inactive players in housing THEY are not denying you content. Only game developers can deny you content. Personally I think SE should fork out for some extra storage to accommodate everyone and stop trying to artificially increase demand by limiting the supply.