Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

[Ibi]

This is where common business sense comes in, This scenerio is never going to happen, sure they can just "delete everything because you agreed to it" but that's never going to happen

When the lead developer of the game specifically states "we're not going to have a system like this", most reasonable people would probably say that's a scenario that's never going to happen also.

I'd say it's bad business sense to delete any part of a players efforts in a game, rather than finding an alternative solution.

Read above, this is something that is extreamly unlikly to never will happen. You're just trying to hard. Deleting all that is actually unreasonable and no call for it, freeing up plots that aren't being used. is actually fair.

Your comment that "that is actually unreasonable", implies that you would agree that SE acting within the terms of the TOS can be unreasonable. You're just drawing a different (equally arbitrary) line.

As indicated above, it's my opinion that removing any part of a player's efforts in game is equally unreasonable. I think discriminating is ridiculous. Companions, mounts, etc. obviously all also take memory. If memory is the limitation (and that's what SE tell us) then this decision shows that anything that relies on that is, theoretically, up for restriction at some point down the line.

If they didn't have the necessary capacity to implement the system in such a way as to conform to the expectations that they themselves established, they shouldn't have implemented it as they did.

Then why did you buy it to begin with? Thinking ahead goes a long way. IF you didn't think it would be worth the invesment, should have never bought it, It is a good idea to think hard about spending large amounts of gill on content that you know you will never get that money back for.

I know this wasn't in response to me, but since I'm in a similar situation...

Not spending time in your house after some time has passed doesn't mean it wasn't worth the investment. I long since recouped the gil I spent on my house via the garden (and could make a significant profit if I decided to sell the plot), but to this day it has almost no furniture placed and I don't remember the last time I actually went inside of it. I do use it as a teleport location on a daily basis, but that's about the extent of it.

And before you accuse my other arguments of being self-serving, my sub's been active since the start of 2.0, I have no intention of cancelling any time soon, and even if I did I wouldn't be that bothered by the loss of the house (in fact, the 80% refund is an excellent addition for players who no longer want their house but don't want to feel forced to have to try to sell the plot to another player to recoup their investment).

One of the more productive steps SE could take would be implementing some encouragement/motivation for players like me, who find the house convenient but don't really care that much about it (or who enjoyed the house initially, but are no longer as interested as they originally were), to relinquish their plots.