Thinking this game is a bad investment

[AskaRay]

This is just my opinion but...
I DO have a house, just by the way

but if it gets to the point when I log out for the last time for more than two months, then I'm probably going to stay logged out for at least half a year to a year, and at that point I'd really rather someone else be using my plot of land. Sure I love my in-game house and the probably millions of gil that's gone towards making it great but really after coming back for that long of a break the LEAST OF MY WORRIES is my house. It's more like "damn I missed all those events :T" or "ugh I'm a million ilvls behind everyone I know"...

[Sho86]

This is just my opinion but...
I DO have a house, just by the way ----snip

I have houses as well, across different servers. I do not like the idea of losing said house, regardless of their reason. A perfect example for me was about a year ago my income did a sudden 180 and I had to get off the game for a few months to get things back in order in life; had this happened after this patch, I would've lost my houses because of it. I doubt I would've come back after that much investment (time watching the wards for houses to open, investing into plot/house, investing/crafting items for house.) It's used as a 'cheap' tele-point for the city location so I can favorite another location instead; its also used for quick access to the MB and my retainers, not to mention for its visual appeal for an accomplishment within the game. Many of the 'destroyed upon removal' add up to quite a bit of gil, and in some cases exceeding the amount paid for the house, which would be entirely lost.

Edit: also on a different note, being a 'community' instance isn't exactly an excuse either. LotR did this as well and at worst you had back rent that piled up, to a capped amount, to unlock your house. They didn't prune housing till years later from what I recall, to get rid of people that were gone for said years, myself being one of the people getting an email about it and at that point I did not care since I already left.

[Elim]

This is just my opinion but...
I DO have a house, just by the way

but if it gets to the point when I log out for the last time for more than two months, then I'm probably going to stay logged out for at least half a year to a year, and at that point I'd really rather someone else be using my plot of land. Sure I love my in-game house and the probably millions of gil that's gone towards making it great but really after coming back for that long of a break the LEAST OF MY WORRIES is my house. It's more like "damn I missed all those events :T" or "ugh I'm a million ilvls behind everyone I know"...

+1 to you and I'm a house owner too.