Clearly you all are so hellbent on repeating your own opinions, that you are incapable of acknowledging mine. You'd rather spout petty insults of "go play another game if you don't like it" and trying to paint me as speaking for the entire population of the game when I clearly have stated many, many, many times (probably in almost every post) that I'm speaking for people like me who are into longterm investment, and not interested in short term investment and too busy trying to team up on me to come up with any logical arguments.

This is what the logical people are fighting against. You people are so fixated on the idea that you might get a house, that you've turned people who own them into your enemy, when the real enemy should be the company who is limiting them and creating these systems to instill fear in you to keep you subscribed. I think I've got my message across, and I think the failure to come up with any arguments that hold any weight reveals that I don't really need to be here anymore.

New players are the future of this game. Without new players, this game will die. Any MMO will die. The fact of the matter is that many players who heard about housing in this game got excited. Who wouldn't? Being able to play an MMO and have customizable housing? It's like 2 games in one. That was this game's edge for a lot of people. Contrary to popular belief, this game is great and doesn't need to be a Final Fantasy game to be that way. It's a great game on its own.

Which is why this is so unfortunate. This countdown timer makes the game seem like a short-term game without a longterm vision. A lot of people are going to see this countdown as just a strongarmed way to hold onto subscriptions, and not an honest feature. New people are going to research into the housing countdown and find it unreasonable and backwards from what a work-reward system in a longterm game is meant to do. They are going to see it as just as bad as deleting their characters after 45 days.

This game should be trying to attract new players, but this countdown timer is going to drive new players away as it has with me. If you want to actually make a difference in the housing situation, you should be pressuring SE to actually find a solution. This doesn't look like a solution. It's a strategy to save money by consolidating server space and make money by instilling the fear of loss in players who don't want to see their work erased. It's holding your achievements for ransom, and nothing more.

This is very bad for the game's image, and thus very bad for its finances. If players are turning away from the game before they even try it when they learn about this, and the game intentionally cuts out an entire demographic of people who may play it (as someone put it, those who play sims or animal crossing who also like MMOs) then what was the point of even having housing if the intention was to drive this demographic away?

I've made my point I think. I can't continue with rebuttals because I"m at my post limit. Later.