Quote Originally Posted by Yeldir View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Crimsonwolf3400 View Post
5) The 35 day timer for storing removed housing items and the 80% plot refund is unexplainable for a system that is designed to only target inactive players.
5. It is explainable, although the truth tends to drive people up the wall. The short answer is deflationary gil destruction. Housing was implemented not merely as an amusement, but also as a means of removing gil from circulation by taking from the richest demographic of players. This reduces the disparity of held gil between the old money folks and new players. When housing filled up, this process ceased entirely. SE wants everyone involved in the homeowning process, as they're gaining or losing homes, to lose gil forever. Few people will ever accept this as positive, because people are inherently selfish, but it very good for noobs in the grand scheme of things.
Except this gil sink is working in reverse of that goal. It's a gil sink that very specifically targets players returning after a lengthy break from the game. That's not "the richest demographic". It's among the poorer demographics, players who are already behind the rest of the playerbase by not having played during recent content. Arbitrarily taking more items away from the poorer players who've already lost a house isn't a good place to put another gil sink. (Besides which, it's not just taking gil. It's taking trophys and mementos of past events, too.)